Sanjay Gupta, chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration, will deliver a keynote address at the AKIMA-hosted “Tech for Govies Day: Changing the Art of the Possible” event. AKIMA will hold hands-on demonstrations and panel discussions on information technology platforms and how they can benefit government agencies as part of the four-hour event, which will be held on April 23 at Convene in Rosslyn, Va.
 

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Dell EMC has revamped its federal channel partner program by reducing the number of distributors to three companies in an effort to address complexity when offering technology platforms and services to federal market clients, CRN reported Monday. Carahsoft, Arrow and Ingram Micro are the three distributors included in the new Dell EMC Federal Partner program, which includes approximately 3K platform providers.

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The General Services Administration and Dell EMC have reached a governmentwide enterprise agreement to facilitate the procurement of the company’s virtual computing environment platforms to help federal agencies advance data center modernization. The agreement allows federal, local, state and tribal government agencies to place an order for Dell EMC’s VxRail products at tiered discounts through Carahsoft Technology’s spot on GSA’s IT Schedule 70 contract, the agency said Thursday.

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Ivanti has obtained a Certificate of Networthiness from the U.S. Army for a software platform designed to manage the patching process for Microsoft Windows operating system.

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Todd Schroeder, vice president of government digital strategy at Salesforce, has said digital platforms can help agencies transform information technology, business and workflow processes. He wrote in an article published Monday that a platform will allow government users to collaborate on programs and across departments, as well as manage customer service. “Digital transformation isn’t about preserving […] More

Recorded Future has been authorized to offer its threat intelligence platform to support the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program. The Somerville, Mass.-based firm said Thursday its machine learning-based Recorded Future Platform will be included in the CDM Approved Product List for the CDM cybersecurity program, which aims to provide real-time threat […] More

Cubic‘s Global Defense business is set to exhibit six training platforms during the U.S. Army Association’s LANPAC Symposium and Exposition, which will take place May 22 to 24 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The company said Monday it will showcase these technologies during the international event, which seeks to emphasize the Army’s role in the Indo-Asia-Pacific theater and the Joint Force. […] More

TYSONS CORNER, Va., May 2, 2018 — Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft, has received the 2018 GCW Readers’ Choice Award for GovCon Executives after garnering the highest number of votes among his category in Executive Mosaic‘s 2018 Wash100 list, GovConWire reported Wednesday. Abod, who is a four-time Wash100 inductee, earned 832 out of the 24,131 total votes […] More

A Druva data protection system has received approval under the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation product list. The Druva Insync is an integrated data protection platform designed to protect end-user data within specified endpoints and cloud storage, Carahsoft said Monday. The system also includes features for management, compliance monitoring, auditing, remediation and self-restoration. The CDM program was […] More

The General Services Administration and ServiceNow have reached a governmentwide agreement that seeks to facilitate the procurement of ServiceNow’s software platforms by federal agencies through Carahsoft Technology’s IT Schedule 70 contract. Emily Murphy, GSA administrator and a 2018 Wash100 recipient, said in a statement published Friday the agreement seeks to address duplication in the procurement process and […] More

Jason Cowie, formerly global partner and channel sales manager at Zerto, has been appointed vice president of global channels at HyTrust. Cowie will oversee the Mountain View, California-based information technology firm’s effort to establish a global network of partners to provide a platform designed to protect critical workloads in both public and private cloud environments, […] More

The Defense Department has awarded ForeScout Technologies a blanket purchase agreement to provide network security products, maintenance and support services under DoD’s Enterprise Software Initiative program. ForeScout said Thursday it partnered with Alamo City Engineering Services, Carahsoft Technology, DLT Solutions, immixTechnology and Patriot Technologies to facilitate ESI purchases across the Pentagon, intelligence community and Coast Guard activities globally. The BPA covers the CounterAct agentless security platform, […] More