Carahsoft Technology has added a portfolio of VMware cloud services to the former’s Distributor Seller of Record program, which makes public sector software products available in an Amazon Web Services digital catalog and various government contract vehicles. Carahsoft said Wednesday its Distributor Seller of Record program now includes the VMware Cross-Cloud Services suite designed to […] More

VMware has received High authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board for its portfolio of cloud management offerings for the U.S. public sector, said Gabriel Martinez, senior product line marketing manager for cloud management. The vRealize Suite Cloud offers advanced analytics and reporting, automation and orchestration capabilities, as well as […] More

Lewis Shepherd, senior director of research and emerging technologies strategy at VMware, was added to the technical advisory board of Quantum Computing Inc. The executive will draw from his more than three decades of government and industry experience in research and development innovation to provide QCI with product visibility, market intelligence and insight, the quantum […] More

VMware has achieved authorization to offer its Horizon cloud service to federal, state, local and tribal government agencies looking to migrate to the cloud. The company said Thursday it secured high authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and State Risk and Authorization Management Program for its desktop virtualization service available […] More

Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud platform has collaborated with VMWare to form the new Azure VMware Solution, an infrastructure-as-a-service private cloud. Azure VMware was launched on Tuesday in an effort to facilitate cloud migration of mission-critical workloads for government users, said Brett Tanzer, vice president of product management at Microsoft. The unified platform is meant to […] More

VMware has secured a certification from the Joint Authorization Board of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a hybrid cloud service it co-developed with Amazon Web Services. Matt, director of product management at VMware, wrote Friday that a FedRAMP High JAB authorization was granted to VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US), a secure […] More

VMware has appointed Nicole Anasenes, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Ansys, to its board of directors. As a board member, Anasenes will share experience gained from several high-level finance, business and technology positions, the Palo Alto, California-based cloud computing and virtualization company said Monday. The executive’s expertise lies in finance and operations, mergers and […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has published a Security Technical Implementation Guide for a network virtualization and security product from VMware to the Department of Defense’s cyber exchange database. Through consultation of the installation rules, security guidelines and controls listed in the STIG, VMware NSX will be usable across the DOD and in other government departments, […] More

Dell Technologies‘ federal systems business has secured a $93.03 million U.S. Army contract to maintain the service branch’s software used for operating virtual computers. The firm-fixed-price contract provides for software maintenance to support the VMWare virtualization licenses already purchased by the Army, the Department of Defense said Friday. Dell Federal Systems, the only bidder to […] More

Keith Nakasone, a federal strategist at VMware, said a multicloud strategy could provide agencies a single set of management platforms that could enable them to ensure the security of configurations across cloud environments. “A platform that provides a single set of tools across the infrastructure gives agencies consistent cross-cloud governance and compliance. As a result, […] More

Keith Nakasone, a federal strategist with VMware, recently participated in the latest Executive Spotlight interview for ExecutiveBiz covering the former GSA official’s move to VMware, the importance of cyber hygiene, CMMC’s certification guidelines as well as the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on recent cybersecurity challenges. “These are the things that we have […] More

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted the VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) service an authority to operate at the High Impact level. The FedRAMP High certification, which was sponsored by the U.S. Marshals Service, will enable government agencies to protect and migrate highly sensitive workloads to the cloud, implement remote workforce […] More