Carahsoft Technology has announced the availability of Dell EMC-built data protection tools to government agencies through the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract. The tools are listed on the contract’s 132-44 special item number that covers continuous diagnostics and mitigation offerings designed to support the Department of Homeland Security‘s CDM program for federal, state, local, regional […] More

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies should come up with a multicloud strategy in order to leverage the cloud platform as an operating model, FedScoop reported Monday. Chehreh called on agencies to assess how they plan to field, operate and manage applications in a multicloud IT environment and discussed how certain […] More

ExecutiveBiz spoke with Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager, and a three-time consecutive Wash100 winner, about Dell EMC Federal’s multi-cloud services and what lies ahead for government information technology modernization. “We recognize cloud not as a destination, but as a delivery model. Cloud isn’t the goal, the goal is getting information into the […] More

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies need a long-term plan for digital transformation in order to reduce technical debt and leverage the Technology Modernization Fund through the Modernizing Government Technology Act. Harris wrote in a FedScoop article posted Thursday organizations accumulate technical debt through […] More

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of presales engineering at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies seeking to optimize their data centers should initially assess their application portfolio and develop their modernization strategy before adopting a specific infrastructure technology, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. Those infrastructure technologies include software-defined storage, converged infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure. Chehreh said […] More

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said advancing automation, adopting cloud platforms and simplifying the procurement process are the strategies federal agencies should implement to address the rising “technical debt” associated with maintaining legacy information technology systems. Harris wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday on Federal Times […] More

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of presales engineering at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said mission agility, cost savings and massive amounts of automation are the three reasons why federal agencies adopt software-defined storage, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. “We are seeing government in a variety of areas, adopting not only software-defined storage but software-defined data […] More

Emcore has received a contract from a U.S. defense contractor to design an inertial  measurement unit to support airborne line-of-sight and navigation functions of a fighter aircraft targeting pod. The company said Thursday it will also deliver hardware by the end of the year for use in flight demonstrations slated to occur early in 2019. Emcore […] More

BAE Systems and Dell EMC have teamed up to provide a hybrid cloud platform for U.S. government agencies. The Federated Secure Cloud platform works to provide users access to mission-critical tools and help them collaborate through common applications, BAE said Monday. The industry team’s cloud offering complies with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement requirements and has […] More

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said he expects federal agencies to advance experimentation with cloud migration and information technology upgrades driven by the passage of the Modernizing Government Technology Act and the release of the White House’s IT modernization report, FedTech Magazine reported Tuesday. Chehreh said he believes the White House […] More

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC‘s federal business, has said the adoption of on-premise and hybrid cloud platforms can help government agencies comply with security best practices and access information technology services in the event of catastrophes. Harris wrote in a MeriTalk article published Tuesday that such cloud environments could also […] More

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said new technology platforms have emerged that work to help federal agencies build up their cyber “defensive postures” through endpoint protection, GCN reported Tuesday. Chehreh cited Dell EMC’s adoption of a technology tool in RSA’s Archer dashboards designed to detect anomalies in empirical data through risk management […] More