Alfred Zollar, a veteran of IBM, has been named to Red Hat‘s board of directors. “Al will help us continue to anticipate and deliver open source technologies,” Naren Gupta, the board of directors chairman at Red Hat, said in Monday’s press release. Zollar’s career started at IBM where he progressed …

John Hamilton, program manager of operations at the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, has tweeted that IBM‘s collaboration platform became the 100th cloud service offering to receive FedRAMP approval, Federal Times reported Wednesday. IBM Connections is designed to support business email, instant messaging, web conferencing and social business networking, file sharing, …

Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM‘s U.S. federal business, has received the “Most Valuable Contributor Award for an Individual” at The Open Group Awards ceremony that took place April 17 in London. Szakal chairs The Open Group’s board of directors and its Trusted Technology Forum. The global …

IBM has received provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host impact level 5 data of Defense Department and federal agency customers through a multitenant cloud computing platform. DISA said Tuesday it granted a 12-month PA to the company’s SmartCloud for Government infrastructure-as-a-service platform. SCG encompasses compute, memory, network, operating system and storage …

Christopher Padilla, vice president for government and regulatory affairs at IBM, has said he believes that technology companies should take responsibility for new tech platforms they introduce and for the impact such platforms have on the society. “We also believe that responsible technology companies should be in the lead as …

The Department of Homeland Security’s procurement innovation lab has implemented a two-phased approach to streamline the acquisition process and cut the time it takes to award contracts, Federal News Radio reported Monday. DHS awarded contracts to Deloitte and IBM through PIL’s implementation of a self-certification method based on technical assessment …

Siemens and several other companies have signed a joint charter on cybersecurity at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Siemens said Friday it will work with Airbus, IBM, Daimler Group, Allianz, NXP, Deutsche Telekom and SGS as well as MSC to address 10 cybersecurity action areas under the joint charter. …

Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, a more than two-decade veteran of IBM, has joined Microsoft as chief diversity officer. McIntyre will lead Microsoft’s cross-company efforts to promote cultural diversity in the workplace and establish partnerships with external organizations to help drive inclusion and diversity in the technology field, Microsoft said Sunday. She will perform her new duties at Microsoft’s …

Sanjay Brahmawar, a 14-year IBM veteran, has been appointed by Software AG‘s supervisory board to serve as CEO of the enterprise software vendor effective Aug. 1. Software AG said Wednesday he will succeed Karl-Heinz Streibich, who is due to retire from the company after 14 years at the helm. Brahmawar currently serves as …

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory expects to receive a neuromorphic supercomputer system from IBM in the summer to support the lab’s deep neural-network learning and information discovery tasks, Signal Magazine reported Monday. The machine will feature IBM’s TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System along with an end-to-end software ecosystem, pattern recognition and sensory processing tools. AFRL …

Salesforce and IBM will combine their cloud and artificial intelligence offerings and expand their strategic partnership to help companies connect and boost collaboration with client organizations. IBM said Friday the companies will merge the IBM Cloud and Watson services with Salesforce Quip and Salesforce Service Cloud Einstein to create new IBM …

IBM and Maersk have announced plans to create a joint venture that will aim to develop a blockchain technology-based platform to help digitize and secure global trade operations. The IBM-Maersk JV will be headquartered in New York and will offer a global trade digitization system based on open standards that can …

Artificial intelligence has seen a massive uptake in the past decade, as major tech companies and up-and-coming start-ups plant their roots in AI-related disciplines like machine learning, natural language processing, image recognition and neural networks. As of 2018, the seeds of innovation are blossoming as human interest in the nonhuman …

Mercer Rowe, former vice president of strategic partners at IBM‘s Watson and cloud computing platforms, has been named senior VP and general manager of a newly formed cloud business at Avaya. He will oversee research, development and sales of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings in his new position, Avaya said Wednesday. Jim …

IBM has partnered with companies, universities and national research laboratories to study quantum computing and identify its potential applications for financial services, automotive, materials, chemical and electronic industries. The New York-based company said Thursday it will collaborate with JPMorgan Chase, Samsung, Daimler, JSR, Barclays, Honda, Nagase and Hitachi Metals through the …