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Executive Mosaic is honored to present Dana Barnes, senior vice president of the public sector with Palo Alto Networks, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for driving digital transformation and for his thought leadership across the technology and government contracting (GovCon) sectors. In Sept. 2020, Barnes was appointed as the senior vice president of U.S. public sector at Palo Alto Networks.

Mike Cosgrave, president and COO of Ace Info Solutions (AceInfo), recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company“™s work diversifying its client base and market position following Dovel“™s acquisition of the company back in 2019. In addition, Cosgrave addresses the toughest challenges facing the company“™s culture and customer base as well as the company“™s success in securing big contract awards and AceInfo“™s strategic goals for the rest of 2021 and beyond. 

A new Nutanix study has found that 82 percent of information technology leaders in the global public sector and 87 percent of respondents in the U.S. federal government cited hybrid cloud as the ideal IT operating model. The third annual Enterprise Cloud Index Report showed that IT leaders from the U.S. federal government intend to increase that to about 74 percent penetration within five years.

Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector business at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said that industry and government cloud adoption challenges similarly encompass issues in data and operational standards.

A Government Business Council survey sponsored by Cisco has found that 58 percent of federal defense agency employees said they think agencies should consider cloud security as the top priority as they advance cloud adoption.

A new Deltek report shows that there are three trends in the federal cloud market to watch in fiscal year 2021 and one of those is the accelerated adoption of cloud-based capabilities by agencies, Federal Times reported Thursday.

Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted government agencies to accelerate their migration to the cloud to meet telework requirements and increased mission demands, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday.

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Juliane Gallina, chief information officer of the CIA, her first Wash100 Award during Potomac Officers Club's CIO Forum 2020 on Thursday.

Sandeep Shilawat, executive director for cloud and DevOps at ManTech International, wrote in a Forbes article published Tuesday that the federal government should implement a mechanism in the budgeting process to allow program managers to reuse cloud adoption-related cost savings.

John Sankovich, vice president of cloud solutions at ECS, said in an interview published Tuesday that organizations should partner with a managed service provider to help train their employees when it comes to cloud adoption.

ICF announced on Friday that the company has been awarded a potential three-year, multiple award blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with a total ceiling value of $100 million to support the governmentwide Centers of Excellence (CoE) program, a partnership initiative between GSA and the White House Office of American Innovation. 

A new Symantec report says 54 percent of information technology decision makers think their organizations' cloud security practices cannot keep pace with rapid cloud adoption.

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, said during the AWS Public Sector Summit that government agencies and enterprises are embracing cloud computing technology because of its potential to increase agility and speed of operations. He pointed to the CIA's award of a $600M contract to AWS in 2013 as having an impact on how organizations perceive the technology.

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, said the agility and speed that cloud offers when it comes to improving customer experiences is the primary reason why government agencies and enterprises migrate to the cloud, CRN reported Wednesday.

Riverbed Technology has facilitated discussions on government cloud adoption at the company’s first annual “Disrupt” event for public sector leaders in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The event featured a keynote speech from Hansang Bae, Riverbed chief technology officer, where he discussed how federal agencies can deploy software-defined wide area network to simplify cloud …