Rob Stein serves as vice president of federal civilian agencies at NetApp where he leads a group of sales managers, sales representatives, engineers, and solution specialists who focus on data management and storage solutions for federal government customers. Having joined the company in 2007, Stein was previously a senior regional director and was responsible …

Gary Bloom, MarkLogic president and CEO, recently spoke about the services his firm provides for company’s looking to take advantage of unstructured data, according to a Silicon Angle article. Maria Deutscher writes that MarkLogic was founded in 2001, has grown into the largest big data vendor based on revenue and …

James “Jim“ Holt serves as general manager of federal civilian and SI services at Microsoft where he focuses on the delivery and support to sales of business solutions and core technology offerings that involve Microsoft technologies directly and in partnership with system integrators. In his current role, Holt led the civilian services and …

John V. Roos, a former CEO of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Robin Washington of Gilead Sciences, have joined the board of directors at Salesforce.com. Their appointments took effect Sept. 10 and they succeed former VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos and former General Motors Corporate Vice President Shirley Young, Salesforce.com said Sept. 12. Roos worked …

Anthony Fernicola, formerly an executive at Oracle has been appointed president of global enterprise sales at Salesforce.com, ZDNet reported Tuesday. Larry Dignan writes that Fernicola will report directly to Salesforce President Keith Block, who also joined the company from Oracle and heldsales leadership roles there. Fernicola most recently served as senior vice president of Oracle’s …

Barbara Gordon, formerly vice president of worldwide customer support at Microsoft, and Phil Bullinger, a former senior vice president of storage at Oracle, have joined an EMC subsidiary, CRN reported Tuesday. Kevin McLaughlin writes an EMC spokesperson said via email that Gordon has been named chief operating officer at Isilon …

EMC has developed new software and hardware products that aim to help customers secure and maintain virtual data in public and private clouds. The company held live broadcasting event to introduce a suite of unified storage systems, reference architectures, software-defined storage platforms and caching software offerings, EMC said Wednesday. “Customers are …

Bashar Yaish, a 10-year veteran technology sales, has joined Software AG as vice president for the Gulf region. The executive will head the team in Dubai tasked to expand the German software firm's business and alliances in the Middle East, the company said Monday. Yaish brings with him more than …

General Electric has appointed Peter Lefkowitz chief privacy counsel, effective September 9, 2013. He previously served as vice president of privacy and security legal and chief privacy officer at Oracle where he worked closely with Oracle corporate security on privacy and security oversight and compliance, according to a GE statement. …

Deloitte has acquired New Zealand-based technology companies Asparona and Tango as part of the consulting firm's growth strategy, Voxy reported Thursday. Citing a statement from Deloitte CEO Thomas Pippos, the website reports the two equity firms and more than 120 employees will be added to Deloitte. Matthew Hitch, Deloitte consulting lead, …

Kofax Plc has wrapped up $2.4 million in sales of accounts payable automation applications to four organizations. Four Kofax MarkView applications have been sold to a Canadian government agency, a Fortune 200 company, an athletic apparel manufacturer and a U.S.-based information technology and communications provider, Kofax said Tuesday. Howard Dratler, executive …

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. …

Greg Gardner serves as chief architect for government and defense solutions for NetApp's U.S. public sector team. Prior to NetApp, Gardner was deputy chief information officer for the Intelligence Community where he assisted the IC CIO in developing the information sharing and management systems that enable our integrated, agile intelligence …

John Drayton has been appointed to lead VMware operations in New Zealand and will oversee the company’s government and financial services offerings, Reseller New Zealand reported Tuesday. The 23-year industry veteran recently served as a Southern regional sales manager at Hewlett-Packard and succeeds Tim Dacombe-Bird who joined Amazon Web Services as …

Kofax has won a $1.2 million contract to automate and consolidate the accounts processing systems of an international logistics firm that handles approximately 3.5 million bills and financial statements annually. The customer expects the transition to improve the productivity of its global operations in about 200 nations, Kofax said Thursday. “The …