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  • Cisco Intercloud Network Adds 30 Partners, 250 Global Data Centers; Rob Lloyd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Intercloud Network Adds 30 Partners, 250 Global Data Centers; Rob Lloyd Comments

    Cisco has added at least 30 Intercloud Fabric partners and 250 data centers as the company pushes forward with its plans to build a global network of interconnected clouds to support the Internet of Everything. The company said Monday its partners – cloud providers, builders, aggregators and resellers as well as independent software vendors – deploy hybrid cloud infrastructure to support enterprise operations. Rob Lloyd, Cisco president […] More

  • Kindra Martone to Lead Colocation Sales at CenturyLink; David Meredith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kindra Martone to Lead Colocation Sales at CenturyLink; David Meredith Comments

    Kindra Martone, formerly senior vice president of global sales and marketing at IO Data Centers, has joined CenturyLink as global VP of colocation sales as the company continues its global data center colocation services expansion push. CenturyLink said Friday Martone will be responsible for directing the company’s international hosting and colocation market presence following its opening of a data center in Toronto. David Meredith, SVP […] More

  • Cisco, Red Hat Expand Partnership Into Open Cloud Collaboration; Paul Cormier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Red Hat Expand Partnership Into Open Cloud Collaboration; Paul Cormier Comments

    Cisco and Red Hat have extended their partnership to open collaboration around the OpenStack, Intercloud and Application Centric Infrastructure tools and unveiled a new integrated infrastructure for cloud deployments on OpenStack. Cisco said Thursday the new Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure product family is designed for private cloud operations on OpenStack and on-ramp to Intercloud for enterprise and midmarket customers. “Open […] More

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  • Padmasree Warrior: Cisco, Red Hat Expand Cloud Deployment Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Padmasree Warrior: Cisco, Red Hat Expand Cloud Deployment Partnership

    Cisco and Red Hat have introduced a new suite of integrated infrastructure service to deploy cloud environments for customers. Padmasree Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer at Cisco, said Thursday that the companies are also “expanding their relationship and accelerating collaboration around OpenStack, Application Centric Infrastructure and Intercloud.” Cisco’s UCS integrated infrastructure services work to streamline OpenStack-based private cloud operations for customers […] More

  • Linda Boles Joins ViON as Healthcare Strategies, Business Development Director; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Linda Boles Joins ViON as Healthcare Strategies, Business Development Director; Tom Frana Comments

    Linda Boles, formerly chief strategist for Cisco’s U.S. public sector healthcare innovation and business development, has joined ViON Corp. as director of healthcare strategies and business development. Boles most recently led a Cisco team to deliver technologies and approaches for patient safety and care management to federal, state and local healthcare agencies, ViON said Wednesday. “Ms. Boles is a […] More

  • TPC Rolls Out Benchmarking Kit for Big Data Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TPC Rolls Out Benchmarking Kit for Big Data Systems

    The Transaction Processing Performance Council has rolled out a new benchmarking tool to cater to big data systems that Cisco’s Raghunath Nambiar indicated have become a “critical” element of a company’s information technology platform. TPCx-HS aims to generate vendor-neutral reports on hardware and software performance, including metrics for price and energy consumption, TPC said Monday. […] More

  • Curtiss-Wright Unveils Mobile IP Router System for Ground Vehicles, Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright Unveils Mobile IP Router System for Ground Vehicles, Aircraft

    Curtiss-Wright has launched a rugged mobile Internet Protocol router subsystem for military ground vehicles and aircraft, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes Curtiss-Wright’s Ashburn, Virginia-based defense solutions division worked to incorporate a Cisco-developed gigabit Ethernet switch into the new variant of the Parvus DuraMAR 5915 component. The combination of the Cisco 5915 router […] More

  • Stephan Thoma to Lead European Leaders’ Talent Development Division; Philip Randerson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stephan Thoma to Lead European Leaders’ Talent Development Division; Philip Randerson Comments

    Stephan Thoma, formerly a global director of learning and development at Google, has joined European Leaders to lead its talent development division. European Leaders also opened a Berlin, Germany-based Central European regional office led by Martin Buhl, a former Oracle executive, European Leaders said Thursday. “The European tech space has never been more vibrant. But […] More

  • Red Hat, Cisco Establish Center of Excellence in India - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Cisco Establish Center of Excellence in India

    Red Hat and Cisco have opened a new Center of Excellence in India that offers their combined open source and enterprise cloud technologies to clients, PCQuest reported Wednesday. Included in the center’s offerings are OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat CloudForms, Adeesh Sharma writes. According to the report, the new center is […] More

  • Angela Beltz: Tech Data Adds Cisco Cloud Offering to Services Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Angela Beltz: Tech Data Adds Cisco Cloud Offering to Services Portfolio

    Tech Data Corp. has moved to grow its software and infrastructure services by incorporating Cisco’s cloud and managed services into Tech Data’s cloud portfolio. Angela Beltz, vice president of product marketing within Tech Data’s Cisco Solutions Group, said Wednesday that the company intends to help customers capture fresh markets and facilitate transition of a hybrid information technology […] More

  • Executive Profile: Greg Pelton, Avaya Government Solutions CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Greg Pelton, Avaya Government Solutions CTO

    Greg Pelton serves as chief technology officer at Avaya Government Solutions, where he oversees the business division’s technical assets for serving federal government clients. Pelton developed the unit’s sales engineering organization and works to apply government standards to Avaya’s offerings, as well as to create go-to-market products and collateral. He started his career at Nortel, where he developed telecommunication […] More

  • Cisco Deploys 'Internet of Everything' Tech at Transwestern's Pennzoil Plaza; Ben Quinton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Deploys ‘Internet of Everything’ Tech at Transwestern’s Pennzoil Plaza; Ben Quinton Comments

    Cisco has deployed technology at Transwestern Property Management‘s Pennzoil Plaza in Houston to help turn the 39-year-old building into an “infrastructure of the future” with a centralized management system that includes energy consumption controls. According to a video posted Thursday on the Cisco website, the “Internet of Everything” applied to infrastructure management systems has brought efficiency in operations. […] More