Michael Tanner, former federal vice president and general manager at Pavilion Data, has joined Panzura to serve as senior director of federal sales at the San Jose, California-based data management platform developer, according to his LinkedIn announcement. The executive spend more than three years at Pavilion, where he was appointed to establish the federal government-focused […] More

Mark Miller, a more than two-decade Hewlett-Packard veteran, has joined the public sector business of technology company Green Revolution Cooling to serve as director of business development. GRC said Thursday Miller will drive the company’s aim to support state, local and federal governments as they target to grow data center efficiency while managing changes in […] More

Regina Dugan, who led the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 2009 to 2012, has joined the board of directors of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The nearly three-decade public and private sector veteran will serve on the technology committee of HPE’s board, the company said Thursday. Antonio Neri, CEO and president of HPE, stated that Dugan […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have launched the world’s first exascale supercomputer designed to accelerate discoveries in areas such as disease diagnosis and prognosis, new materials, drug discovery and renewable energy. The HPE-built Frontier supercomputer reached a performance of 1.1 exaflops, making it the world’s fastest supercomputer based […] More

Google’s government and education arm has named cloud and analytics executive Stephen Elliott as its head of artificial intelligence solutions. According to his LinkedIn profile, Elliott will collaborate with public sector customers in his new role to deliver cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, with a particular focus on leveraging the Palantir Foundry platform. Elliott began his […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have launched a testbed supercomputer designed to help developers and scientists optimize artificial intelligence, scientific and engineering projects planned for Aurora, the forthcoming exascale supercomputer. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host and manage the Polaris testbed supercomputer, which will be installed by HPE […] More

Caron Ward, formerly director of LMI's program and implementation management practice, has been named executive vice president of customer experience and delivery engagement at McLean, Virginia-based federal consulting services provider IronArch Technology. She previously supported multiple engagements with government clients and worked at Hewlett Packard and IBM earlier in her career.

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Victoria Coleman, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has taken a seat at LookingGlass Cyber Solutions' advisory board.

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MarkLogic has appointed Jeffrey Casale, former president of Dell Technologies' select group, as CEO and named David Donatelli, former executive vice president of Oracle's cloud business group, to the company's board of directors. “MarkLogic has distinguished itself through its robust product offering, blue chip customer base, and strong foundation for growth, and I am thrilled to be joining the company at this exciting time in its evolution,“ said Casale. 

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Microsoft has teamed up with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to connect its Azure cloud to the International Space Station through HPE“™s Spaceborne Computer-2. SBC-2 is set to fly aboard Northrop Grumman“™s Cygnus spacecraft as part of Northrop“™s 15th commercial resupply mission to the orbiting laboratory on Feb. 20, and will bring artificial intelligence, cloud connectivity and edge computing capabilities to the ISS.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has received a $35 million contract to construct a supercomputer designed to support the National Center for Atmospheric Research's geoscience and meteorology studies including weather prediction activities.

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Quantum has appointed Rick Valentine as senior vice president and chief customer officer. In his new role, Valentine will work to advance Quantum's customer experience throughout the company's transformation into an as-a-service provider for unstructured data management, analytics and storage. "Rick's deep expertise in SaaS transformation and customer experience will ensure that the Quantum customer experience remains second to none,“ said Jamie Lerner, president and CEO at Quantum.

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