Dell Software is the recipient a 2014 Confirmit Achievement in Customer Excellence award, which the company says represents the company’s work in customer service all over the world. “We are delighted to be a Confirmit ACE award winner,” said Sean McEvoy, worldwide leader for support at Dell Software. “As we work to continually improve our world-class […] More

Oracle and Dell‘s federal systems business were awarded $37 million in total task orders from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for extending access to their respective software. According to NGA, its $22.3 million award to Oracle covers the renewal of software licenses through March 2024. The task order also provides for database maintenance services. Dell Federal […] More

Dell Technologies‘ federal systems business has secured a $93.03 million U.S. Army contract to maintain the service branch’s software used for operating virtual computers. The firm-fixed-price contract provides for software maintenance to support the VMWare virtualization licenses already purchased by the Army, the Department of Defense said Friday. Dell Federal Systems, the only bidder to […] More

Dell’s marketing arm has received a $78.1M contract to provide software license maintenance services to the U.S. Army.

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Dell EMC has introduced new software and services designed to defend and protect data from ransomware and other cyber attacks. The company said Wednesday its Cyber Recovery software includes security analytics, workflow and automation tools to help users isolate critical data in the event of a cyber incident and facilitate data retention within the CR Vault. “Malicious […] 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

A new survey sponsored by Dell EMC has found that 64 percent of federal information technology leaders said their agencies had fielded software-defined data centers. Dell said Monday it commissioned market research firm Penn Schoen Berland to perform an online survey of 100 federal IT and business decision makers in May 2016 as an extension to the State of […] More

Dell and Software AG have launched an Internet of Things architecture offering intended to help enterprise customers analyze real-time data from networks, devices and sensors. The integrated offering combines Dell’s Edge Gateway 5000 Series and an embedded version of Software AG’s Apama Streaming Analytics to support real-time analytics at the edge of the network, Software AG said […] More

Tom Joyce, formerly senior vice president of global corporate development at Hewlett-Packard, is set to join the software group at Dell, CRN reported Wednesday. Matt Brown writes Joyce oversaw the establishment of HP’s ventures group and the Palo Alto, California-based firm’s transactions to acquire Voltage Security, ConteXtream and Aruba Networks. Before he joined HP, Joyce led […] More

A subsidiary of Exelis has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Interior Department for its geospatial image analysis software. Exelis Visual Information Solutions will provide ENVI software and related maintenance services for the federal agency under the BPA, which has a one-year base period and four one-year options, the company said Tuesday. Stuart […] More

An Airbus subsidiary and Exelis have partnered to embed a geodatabase into Exelis’ spectral image analysis and sensor data processing platform offerings. Exelis said Monday its ENVI software customers will have access to Airbus Defense and Space’s collection of geospatial imagery between Oct. 6 and Dec. 31. The geospatial data catalog plugin is available for […] More

Dell and Siemens have partnered to run the electronics company’s software for power grid data management on Dell-made desktop computers. Siemens’ smart grid business seeks to integrate its Spectrum Power 4 application running on top of the Solaris operating system into OptiPlex XE2 desktops by collaborating with Dell’s OEM Solutions division, Dell said Wednesday. “We […] More