GitLab’s Open Source Partners program has added a global consortium member specializing in the standardization of open source technology. Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer at The Open Group, and David Diederich, the consortium’s GitLab administrator, discussed how the web-based code repository supports their projects in an interview posted Tuesday. The Open Group […] More

In the latest Executive Spotlight interview, Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer with The Open Group, discussed the company’s growth initiatives and its key efforts to drive a significant industry ecosystem transformation utilizing The Open Group’s OSDU Forum and other programs such as Mercury and the FACE Consortium. In addition, Szakal also provides […] More

A new study underwritten by IBM has found that three in four information technology executives at federal agencies expect IT investment shifts in the next two years, FedScoop reported Monday. The survey found that 26 percent of agency program management and IT executives expect their agencies to spend on government-only community cloud platforms in the […] More

Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM‘s U.S. federal business, has received the “Most Valuable Contributor Award for an Individual” at The Open Group Awards ceremony that took place April 17 in London. Szakal chairs The Open Group’s board of directors and its Trusted Technology Forum. The global consortium said it has more […] More

N&C has launched an analytics platform intended to help public and private organizations analyze regulatory documents from the Federal Register. Regendus is based on the natural language processing platform of IBM‘s Watson cognitive computing system, N&C said Monday. IBM helped build the Regendus prototype as N&C’s technology partner and the platform was further developed through collaborations with the White House and 23 […] More

Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM‘s U.S. federal business, has participated in a panel discussion that tackled how public sector organizations utilize and acquire cloud services, Sys-Con Media reported Wednesday. Dana Gardner writes Szakal discussed how cloud service providers have created purpose-built cloud environments for federal government entities which have enterprise applications that […] More

ANDRAS SZAKAL VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER IBM U.S. FEDERAL Andras Szakal is vice president and chief technology officer IBM U.S. Federal. He is responsible for IBM’s industry solution technology strategy in support of the U.S. Federal customer. Mr. Szakal was appointed IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of IBM’s Federal Software Architecture team in […] More

The General Services Administration has included cloud-based mobile applications as part of the offerings under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program in efforts to further boost government services, according to two IBM executives. Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, wrote in a piece published Monday with Andras Szakal, vice president and chief […] More

The Open Group‘s Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard has received approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard for the security and integrity of commercial off-the-shelf information and communications technology products and supply chains. The consortium said Tuesday the new ISO/IEC 20243:2015 standard works to help COTS ICT providers prevent the introduction of tampered or counterfeit product components at any stage […] More

Personal and ubiquitous computing tools are giving rise to a new generation of platforms intended to drive greater integration within an organization, according to Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM’s federal division. Szakal wrote in a blog post published Friday the Third Platform can be defined as the convergence of mobile, big […] More

Andras Szakal serves vice president and chief technology officer for the U.S. federal practice at IBM, where he is responsible for IBM’s industry technology strategy in support of U.S. federal customers. He leads a department of enterprise and technical architects responsible for developing e-Government software architectures using IBM technology and solutions. ExecutiveBiz caught up with Szakal […] More

The growth of the government contracting industry ushered in partnerships with the private sector, new market reaches, and job opportunities. On the other hand, this growth also opened the way for threats to come in and wreak havoc on crucial data and supply chain security.    What is supply chain security? Supply chain security is […] More