Quantum has appointed Rick Valentine as senior vice president and chief customer officer. In his new role, Valentine will work to advance Quantum’s customer experience throughout the company’s transformation into an as-a-service provider for unstructured data management, analytics and storage. "Rick's deep expertise in SaaS transformation and customer experience will ensure that the Quantum customer experience remains second to none,” said Jamie Lerner, president and CEO at Quantum.

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Microsoft has obtained a court order and carried out a technical action to counter Trickbot, a botnet known for distributing ransomware, to protect election infrastructure, government agencies, health care facilities, financial service institutions and businesses from ransomware attacks.

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The Cyber Threat Alliance has partnered with the Center for Internet Security to launch joint efforts focused on threat intelligence and leverage the latter's Department of Homeland Security-funded cybersecurity facilities.

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Scott Spitzer, formerly lead of strategic programs and the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation initiative at Symantec, has joined ServiceNow as business development and strategic programs director for civilian agencies, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday.

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The Texas Department of Information Resources has awarded Carahsoft Technology a contract to supply information technology products and services to the state’s public sector entities to support educational IT efforts.

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Greg Amori, former director of civilian and Mid-Atlantic business operations at ForeScout Technologies, has joined artificial intelligence-based software provider C3.ai as group vice president for civilian agency sales, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday.

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Sheila Sorrells, a more than 20-year public sector market veteran, has joined search company Elastic as director of federal business development, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday.

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Carahsoft has received a potential five-year, $69.1M blanket purchase agreement to distribute Symantec-made products across the Department of the Navy.

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RackTop Systems hired information technology industry veterans Graham Moore, Michael Beegen and Brian Santrock to respectively serve as vice president of federal sales, director of federal systems engineering and manager of western U.S. federal accounts at the Fulton, Md.-based company.

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Carahsoft Technology has won a potential five-year, $69.1M blanket purchase agreement to help the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps acquire Symantec software licenses.

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Nick Mehta, CEO at Gainsight, and Marie Myers, chief financial officer at UiPath, have been appointed to serve as members of F5 Networks' board of directors. The appointments of the two executives bring the board's member count to 12, F5 said Wednesday.

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Fugue has received a Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award in the infrastructure-as-a-service category. The company said Wednesday it was given the award as recognition for its products that readily determine the existence of anomalous content in a cloud infrastructure, like a policy violation, an unauthorized transaction or a misconfiguration, and address the problem as it happens. “As […] More