Anna Griffin is joining CA Technologies to serve as the new senior vice president for corporate marketing, effective April 21. Griffin is a public and private sector marketing veteran and has served at companies that include Juniper Networks and Nortel, CA Technologies announced Tuesday. According to Griffin, she joined the company due to the role of […] 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

Enterprises have adopted network firewalls as part of their security stacks in order to build a first line of defense from the perimeter, Computer World reported Mar. 5. Jaikumar Vijayan writes that instead of succumbing to newer technologies, network firewalls have evolved to offer relevant capabilities against the rapidly changing threat landscape. Phil Cummings, security […] More

Benson Schliesser has been appointed a distinguished engineer within the chief technology officer’s office at Brocade Communications, The VAR Guy reported Thursday. Chris Talbot writes that Schliesser joins the company from Juniper Networks, where he served as a distinguished engineer and director of the CTO office’s platform systems division. Schliesser has also served as the chairman […] More

A new study from QuinStreet Enterprise indicates that enterprise customers continue to invest in data centers due to uptime, availability and security, Datamation reported Thursday. Paul Shread writes the “2014 Data Center Outlook: Data Center Transformation “” Where Is Your Enterprise?” report stated 88 percent of 321 information technology professionals spend on data centers. Amazon, Dell […] More

The Trusted Computing Group made several recent additions to its board of directors and has elected member representatives from Dell and DMI to serve one-year terms, effective Jan. 1, 2014. The TCG’s permanent board members include representatives from Wave Systems, Advanced Micro Devices, Microsoft, Cisco, Lenovo Holdings Ltd., Hewlett-Packard, Juniper Networks, IBM, Intel Corp. and […] More

Haywood Talcove serves as a leader in LexisNexis‘ risk solutions group as CEO, Government and LexisNexis Special Services Inc, leading all product management, market planning and sales efforts for government customers. Talcove joined the firm in 2008 from his previous post leading Juniper Networks‘ sales to all levels of government and education customers as vice […] More

Ixia Communications has named Lori Cornmesser, former head of worldwide partner development at Juniper Networks, vice president of global channel sales, according to a CRN article. Kristin Bent writes that Cornmesser, an 11-year Juniper veteran, will be responsible for implementing a formalized partner program for Ixia’s 100 global partners. “I wasn’t necessarily looking to make a move,” said Cornmesser. […] More

Savvis Inc. has appointed Ian Bryant, Eric McDougal and Nick Barley as vice presidents for advanced services, sales and global marketing respectively in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The three executives will work to grow the CenturyLink company“™s cloud, hosting and colocation services across EMEA, Savvis said Tuesday. James Parker, senior vice president […] More

Lauren Flaherty, who spent 25 years as an IBM executive, has joined CA Technologies as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. She will report to CEO Michael Gregoire when her appointment takes effect on August 1, CA Technologies said Tuesday. During her tenure at IBM, Flaherty held positions to support advertising, corporate marketing, communications and […] More

Several technology companies have joined forces to share research and development costs and technology for an initiative aimed at growing software-defined networking in the corporate market. Vendors will contribute code aimed at helping their products work together, but also be allowed to customize their products to differentiate themselves from competitors, Reuters reported Monday. Reuters reports […] More

General Dynamics‘ C4 systems business unit has named Thomas Kreidler vice president of worldwide product sales, the company announced Monday. Kreidler will lead sales of the company’s portfolio, including encryption, rugged computing, networking products and domestic and exportable radio. “TK is eminently qualified to extend the penetration of this highly relevant portfolio into existing and […] More