Susan Arthur, chief operating officer at OptumInsight, has been named to Rackspace’s board of directors.

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Rick Rosenburg, a former senior vice president at Dell Services Federal Government, has joined Rackspace to serve as vice president and general manager of government solutions, G2Xchange ETC reported Tuesday.

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Rackspace has unveiled a service offering meant to help software-as-a-service providers comply with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program standards when pursuing government certification for their cloud products.

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Ray Kalustyan, a former group vice president and general manager at Oracle, has joined Rackspace as VP and GM of the cloud computing firm's government solutions business.

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John McCabe, an industry executive, has joined Maximus as senior vice president of business development and sales. In this capacity, he leads the business development, capture and proposal teams while strengthening partnerships with state and local government agencies and improving the delivery of services to the public as part of the U.S. services segment at Maximus.

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As artificial intelligence and machine learning expand their footprints in the public and private sectors, organizations are increasingly finding that the technology is a top priority for success. A recent survey conducted by cloud computing company Rackspace Technology found that 62 percent of respondents identified AI/ML as a high priority for their organization and up to 72 […] More

Red Hat has named Carahsoft Technology as its distribution partner of the year award in the public sector category for the latter's performance in helping market open source software products across the North American government sector.

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Google has received a provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its suite of cloud computing services and underlying common infrastructure. FedRAMP’s Joint Authorization Board issued Rev. 4 P-ATO approval to the Google Cloud Platform at the moderate impact level, Jennifer Lin, director of product management for Google’s GCP security and privacy […] More

A Technavio study, released by Research and Markets, predicts the global private and public cloud market in financial services industry will experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.12 percent from 2016 to 2020. The 107-page market research report incorporates analysis and inputs from industry professionals and covers the market landscape and its growth forecast over the next […] More

A Research and Markets report predicts that the market for cloud storage products will reach a value of $65.41 billion in 2020 from $18.87 billion in 2015, at a compound annual growth rate of 28.22 percent. The company said Sept. 3 the growing adoption of cloud storage gateways and demand for big data storage will drive market growth […] More

TechNavio’s new report projects the public sector’s demand for low-cost infrastructure maintenance to drive a 31.0 percent compound annual growth rate of the global information technology-as-a-service market from 2014 through 2019. The report analyzes the vendor landscape that includes tier-one market players such as Amazon Web Services, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Rackspace, Technavio said […] More

Worldwide revenue from information technology-as-a-service platforms is forecast to grow 31 percent annually from 2014 to 2019, according to a new Research and Markets report. The market analyst said Thursday a growing demand for ITaaS offerings across the government sector and for low-cost enterprise infrastructure will help spur market growth. Vendors use the ITaaS technology delivery […] More