An IDC report says the integrated platforms and infrastructure industry generated $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of 2014, a 33.8 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. IDC said Thursday storage capacity shipped by integrated system vendors worlwide grew 63.4 percent to more than 833 petabytes during this year’s Q2 compared with the […] More

Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More

Mark Baur, a 28-year industry veteran, has joined EMC Corp. as channel development manager for Scotland, MicroScope reported Friday. Simon Quicke writes Baur will be based at EMC’s Livingston site. He will work to help the company further its channel relationships with resellers and identify key vertical markets in Scotland, according to the report. Martin […] More

EMC Corp. has released a new portfolio of data storage applications designed to help enterprises manage archiving, recovery and security functions. The Data Protection Suite is built to support physical, virtual and cloud computing systems and helps customers shift toward a software-defined storage model, EMC said Thursday. According to the company, the offerings work to […] More

Verizon Terremark has joined a foundation that works to help accelerate the growth of Linux and collaborative development in the technology industry. Verizon joins The Linux Foundation as a gold member to help further the organization’s work on open cloud and virtualization technologies, the foundation announced Wednesday. “Linux, open cloud and open virtualization technologies support […] More

Merlin International has won a five-year contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide antivirus, host intrusion prevention and anti-spyware/malware services and supporting technologies through its partnerships with McAfee, NetApp, Cisco and F5 Networks. Merlin said Thursday that the VA may also procure $21 million in solution, infrastructure and storage components from Merlin’s partners, as well […] More

Global Technology Resources Inc. sought to emphasize the value of using technology to address cybersecurity issues in enterprises at the company’s annual sales kickoff meeting. The GTRI event featured keynote speakers Matthew Eversmann, a two-decade military veteran, and Luis Benitez, a leadership development consultant, according to a Jan 28 blog post by GTRI Solutions Architect […] More

Lynne Chamberlain serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. The more than 20-year industry veteran has been at Red Hat since 2004 and has previously held leadership roles at Unisys, HP and NetApp. In her Q&A with ExecutiveBiz, Chamberlain discussed her work with systems integrators, some of the newest cloud offerings […] More

A new study from QuinStreet Enterprise indicates that enterprise customers continue to invest in data centers due to uptime, availability and security, Datamation reported Thursday. Paul Shread writes the “2014 Data Center Outlook: Data Center Transformation — Where Is Your Enterprise?” report stated 88 percent of 321 information technology professionals spend on data centers. Amazon, Dell […] More