The General Services Administration and Dell EMC have reached a governmentwide enterprise agreement to facilitate the procurement of the company’s virtual computing environment platforms to help federal agencies advance data center modernization. The agreement allows federal, local, state and tribal government agencies to place an order for Dell EMC’s VxRail products at tiered discounts through Carahsoft Technology’s spot on GSA’s IT Schedule 70 contract, the agency said Thursday.
Read More »EMC-VMware JV to Offer Hybrid Cloud Platforms; Pat Gelsinger Comments
EMC and VMware have teamed up to establish a new business that will work to provide a portfolio of hybrid cloud platforms for government and commercial clients. Virtustream CEO Rodney Rogers will oversee the joint venture that will operate as part of the Virtustream brand, VMware said Tuesday. The new cloud services …
Read More »IDC: Global Market for Integrated Platforms, Infrastructure Systems Hit $2.4B in 2Q Sales
A new International Data Corp. report says the global market for integrated infrastructure systems and integrated platforms reached $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of this year. IDC said Thursday the market posted nearly 45 percent increase in storage capacity shipments during the quarter compared with the same …
Read More »Executive Profile: Charles Carey, Exelis Information Systems VP and General Counsel
Charles Carey serves as vice president and general counsel for the information systems business at Exelis, where he provides guidance on the organization’s legal activities. He joined the company in January 2014 and also oversees trade compliance, ethics, environmental safety, export and security functions. He previously served as a senior …
Read More »Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE
VCE, a joint venture of EMC and Cisco, will become an EMC company by the end of the quarter and Cisco will continue to be a partner and investor in the business alongside VMware. EMC said Wednesday that it will acquire a controlling interest in VCE as part of a reorganization agreed upon between all arties …
Read More »HP, IBM, Oracle Named Top Integrated Platform Vendors in IDC Report
An IDC report says the integrated platforms and infrastructure industry generated $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of 2014, a 33.8 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. IDC said Thursday storage capacity shipped by integrated system vendors worlwide grew 63.4 percent to more than 833 petabytes during this …
Read More »Matthew Oostveen Named VCE Asia-Pacific, Japan CTO
Matthew Oostveen, formerly director of research at IDC Australia, has joined VCE as chief technology officer for the company’s operations in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan. He spent six years in his role at IDC Australia and oversaw research in the firm’s telecommunications, software, verticals and infrastructure divisions, VCE announced Tuesday. “Asia Pacific and …
Read More »VCE Unveils New IT Mgmt Products; Praveen Akkiraju Comments
VCE has introduced new products, services and programs for businesses and organizations to use for managing information technology infrastructures and resources. Vblock System 340 and Cloud Accelerator Services are now on the market while two versions of Vblock systems software and Vision Intelligent Operations 2.5 are to be released by the …
Read More »GovCon Executive Covers Partner of the Year Awards
Partnerships between government contracting companies have become a widespread method of attracting government contracts as opportunities have begun to dwindle. Larger company’s present their very best partners with “Partner of the Year” awards in order to recognize their important contribution to the completion of work. GovCon Executive covers these awards …
Read More »WWT Collects Partner of the Year Awards from EMC, VCE; Bob Olwig Comments
World Wide Technology has won two awards meant to recognize its contributions as affiliates of EMC and VCE to achieve shared targets for business growth and development. The 2012 EMC National Partner of the Year and the inaugural VCE Partner of the Year awards for North America were announced at …
Read More »VMware, VCE Expanding Cloud Development Partnership; Trey Layton Comments
VMware and VCE have extended their development partnership to integrate VMware’s cloud management portfolio with VCE’s Vblock Systems. Both companies are aiming to help customers manage operations and business functions through the partnership, VCE said Tuesday. The two companies will also jointly develop and market the integrations, continuing joint development …
Read More »Executive Profile: Craig Reichenbach, VCE Public Sector Senior Director
Craig Reichenbach serves as the public sector senior director at Virtual Computing Environment Company where his responsibilities include U.S. federal civilian agencies and the Defense Department. Reichenbach has more than two decades of technology management and business development experience in both the public and private sectors and in 1998 he earned Federal Computer Week’s FED 100 …
Read More »VCE Named Most Innovative Cloud Infrastructure Provider; Praveen Akkiraju Comments
VCE has been awarded the 2012 information technology brand pulse leader for converged infrastrcuture in an industry survey of information technology professionals, according to a company statement Praveen Akkiraju, VCE’s CEO, said that the company simplifies the deployment, operations and management of data center infrastructure and acceptance of the Vblock systems …
Read More »VCE Talks About Data Center Technologies at Conference
VCE Chairman Michael Capellas recently spoke at CA World 2011 in Las Vegas on the latest technology trends that are transforming data centers and enabling greater business agility. His keynote session featured CA Technologies CEO Bill McCracken, former first Federal CIO and current Harvard fellow Vivek Kundra, and former Facebook marketing director and …
Read More »VCE and SAP Team Up on Cloud Initiatives
VCE today announced it has become an SAP global technology partner. It will cooperate with SAP to help customers deploy the latest virtualization and cloud technologies to simplify and automate their mission-critical applications. Both firms will work closely to provide customers with solutions, services and support for their SAP applications …
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