Wayne Lewandowski serves as vice president of sales for U.S. federal clients at Vormetric since January 2013, with responsibility in overseeing the company’s effort to expand cybersecurity platform offerings. He previously served as regional manager of the Defense Department for the Plan B government systems, with partners such as Citrix, Cisco, CommVault, Data Domain, Dell, […] More

Avnet Technology Solutions will now integrate Veeam Software’s platforms with its portfolio of services in the U.S. and Canada following the expansion of a distribution agreement. Avnet said Wednesday Veeam’s software tools are designed to provide disaster recovery, backup and virtualization management support for data centers that enterprises use for managing business operations. Sergio Farache, […] More

International Data Corp. reports that the global cloud IT infrastructure market achieved a 25.1-percent year-over-year growth in sales revenue to reach $6.3 billion in the first quarter. IDC said Thursday spending also grew from 26.4 percent of overall first-quarter IT infrastructure spending last year to almost 30 percent this year. The growth is due to increasing demand […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the global software-defined storage market will grow 35.2 percent from 2015 through 2019, spurred by increased enterprise use of flash-based storage. The market research firm said Wednesday that platform interoperability is one of the advantages of using SDS in flash-based storage. The report also identified […] More

Mike Walsh leads EMC‘s team that offers technologies and services to the Defense Department in an effort to help address application, security and infrastructure challenges. He brings over 20 years of federal contract experience to EMC and has held leadership positions with NetApp, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. Walsh recently spoke to ExecutiveBiz for an in-depth conversation […] More

Iron Bow Technologies has been recognized in The Channel Company’s annual CRN Tech Elite 250 list of information technology providers. Rene LaVigne, president and CEO of Iron Bow, said Monday the company’s inclusion in the list for the fifth consecutive year validates Iron Bow’s efforts to “maintain technical excellence.” LaVigne added that Iron Bow leverages […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

Mike Walsh is the director for Defense Department operations at EMC Corp.‘s federal division and oversees a range of EMC products designed to help U.S. defense agencies manage information technology systems. He leads a team of professionals who work with DoD to address the agency’s IT infrastructure, application and security management challenges through the use […] More

Lynne Chamberlain-O’Neill serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. Prior to Red Hat, the more than 20-year industry veteran served as VP and general manager for Unisys‘ federal systems and technology business unit. She led the growth, margin, and profitability of enterprise offerings and services to the federal government. Before […] More

Liz Anthony serves as vice president of marketing at ViON and brings more than two decades of marketing plan and communications strategy development experience to the role. She previously held a senior manager position at Cisco and NetApp, with responsibility for developing strategies and integrated programs in the U.S. government market. Anthony also oversaw NetApp’s […] More

Research and Markets has projected a 4.62 compound annual growth rate for the global mega data center market from 2014 to 2018. Cloud computing technology will be among the primary growth drivers in the large enterprise data hubs industry, the research firm said Thursday. Analysts also see a trend toward interconnection between big data centers […] More

Jay Kidd, formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at NetApp, has joined the advisory board of Infinio. He will assist Infinio in the company’s initiatives to expand its product offerings and holds experience in storage, networking, software and high-performance systems, Infinio said Tuesday. “Our collaboration with NetApp is strategic to Infinio, and we are honored to have Jay Kidd’s […] More