Paul Sagan has been elected to the board of directors of VMware Inc., effective immediately, to fill the spot left by David Goulden. Sagan, a partner at General Catalyst Partners, also serves as a director at EMC Corp. and iRobot Corp., VMware announced. During his career, Sagan also served various positions at Akamai Technologies Inc., […] 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

Informatica has named the finalists across 10 categories for the company’s Innovation Awards competition and will announce the winners at Informatica World 2014, scheduled for May 12 through May 15 in Las Vegas. “The 2014 Innovation Award finalists exemplify organizations that are transforming their businesses through data“”innovating new offerings, delighting customers and beating the competition,” […] 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

Lockheed Martin will collaborate with CyberPoint International to develop new products intended to protect government and business infrastructures from advanced persistent threats. CyberPoint International has signed up for the Lockheed-led Cyber Security Alliance with the aim of offering integrated enterprise security tools, Lockheed said Tuesday. The consortium was formed to utilize Lockheed’s cyber innovation and […] More

Verizon and RSA have reached an agreement for Verizon Enterprise Solutions to help EMC Corp. subsidiary run its managed security partner program. Verizon“™s clients will have access to new cyber defense technologies such as big data security analytics, critical incident response and risk management under the partnership, Verizon said Monday. Eddie Schwartz, vice president of global […] More

EMC Corp. has updated a storage management offering that is intended to help customers gain insights into data stored in their systems, InfoStor reported Friday. Pedro Hernandez writes the new version of the ViPR platform is built to work with the Hadoop Distributed File System and comply with corporate rules on data access, retention and […] More

Govplace has won the federal partner award from the EMC Corp. during the EMC Federal Partner Executive Summit in Leesburg, Va. in October. Govplace, a value-added reseller that provides information technology offerings for the public sector, won the award under the Isilon Products category, Govplace announced Monday. “Federal is more than a market ““ it“™s […] More

Mike Brown elevated over the summer to a new role of vice president and general manager of the global public sector at RSA, the security division of EMC Corp., after serving as VP and GM of RSA’s U.S. federal operations. The retired Navy rear admiral joined RSA after a nearly three-decade career in the military that […] More

EMC Corp.“™s security division RSA is teaming up with T-Systems to provide a range of tools and consulting services to enterprises in order to help them safeguard cyber networks. The companies seek to combine their cybersecurity offerings to help corporate customers evaluate systems and detect threats faster, T-Systems’ parent Deutsche Telekom  said Monday. Reinhard Clemens, […] More

EMC Corp. and database software provider RainStor have teamed up to develop a storage platform for companies to manage growing amounts of big data, IT Business Edge reported Thursday. Mike Vizard writes the companies intend to consolidate RainStor“™s software with Isilon network attached storage platforms that run the Hadoop distributed file system. EMC and RainStor […] More

The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association of Northern Virginia and the March of Dimes have announced 22 finalists for awards program to recognize contributions of women to community service and philanthropy. Nominees for the 13th Annual Heroines in Technology Awards Gala are female technology industry leaders who support humanitarian causes, the organizations said Sept. […] More