Force 3 has been awarded an $18 million blanket purchase agreement to provide VMware products for the U.S. Census Bureau’s data collection process. The Census Bureau currently explores ways to automate and update its data gathering practices with the use of websites in mobile platforms and diverse languages and an electronic data entry for field workers, […] More

EMC and VMware have teamed up to establish a new business that will work to provide a portfolio of hybrid cloud platforms for government and commercial clients. Virtustream CEO Rodney Rogers will oversee the joint venture that will operate as part of the Virtustream brand, VMware said Tuesday. The new cloud services business will work to combine […] More

Ray O’Farrell, formerly general manager of VMware‘s software-defined data center division, will assume the combined role of chief technology officer and chief development officer. The company said Wednesday O’Farrell succeeds Ben Fathi and will be in charge of the CTO team and manage the research and development business units. “He brings extensive and invaluable experience in […] More

The Open Platform for NFV Project has added EMC as a Platinum member and VMware as a Silver member as the open source platform continues its work to boost innovation using network functions virtualization. OPNFV said Friday EMC and VMware will join other members in collaborating toward the development of an open source framework for NFV. “I’m delighted […] More

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to combine VMware licenses with Gantech’s managed services to help clients of the Reston, Virginia-based company’s reseller partners to accelerate deployment and adoption of a VMware end-user computing platform. Under the partnership, Gantech will provide patching, desktop administration, incident reporting and capacity management services to Carahsoft’s VMware resellers, Carahsoft said Thursday. “We believe that […] More

VMware will offer a hybrid cloud platform through a U.K. government procurement vehicle meant to help the country’s public sector organizations to acquire cloud computing services. The company holds a position on the G-Cloud 6 framework contract to supply its VCloud Air products to British customer agencies, VMware said Tuesday. VCloud Air is designed to […] More

VMware has received certification under the government’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide cloud services to public sector customers, Data Center Knowledge reported Wednesday. Yevgeniy Sverdlik writes VMware’s vCloud government service has been confirmed to meet federal security requirements for cloud offerings. VMware’s partner Carpathia provides the government cloud service from its data […] More

Bill Rowan was appointed vice president of the federal business at cloud computing and virtualization company VMware in November after nearly four years at the firm. Rowan joined VMware in 2010 to lead its Defense Department business and the nearly 25-year veteran also held leadership roles at firms such as IBM, MicroStrategy and Storage Technology Corp. In […] More

Ingram Micro subsidiary Promark Technology has added VMware products to Promark’s General Services Administration schedule in a push to give channel partners greater access to the public sector market. Ingram Micro said Monday it has also launched the Public Sector Rewards Club, a new program that aims to enable partner resellers with the resources and other tools they need […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. and VMware will collaborate to develop an infrastructure-as-a-service platform intended to help enterprises automate, manage and secure applications in cloud environments. The companies aim to integrate CSC’s Agility cloud management platform with VMware’s suite of software-based computing, storage and networking technologies, VMware said Tuesday. CSC also plans to leverage VMware-made vSphere, NSX, […] More

Science Applications International Corp. is now able to resell VMware technologies and bring cloud, virtualization and end user tools to its customers as a member of the VMware Partner Network. SAIC said Sept. 8 that it has been providing customers with VMware technologies – including VMware vCloud Director, VMware vCloud Automation Center for Desktop and VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server – for […] More

Carpathia will launch the Early Access Program for its VMware vCloud Government Service based on feedback from the invited participants to its earlier beta-testing program on the enterprise-class hybrid cloud service. Peter Weber, Carpathia CEO, wrote Friday on the company blog that the new program is open to federal CIOs and IT organizations that plan to develop and test cloud applications on […] More