Zoom Video Communications has selected Oracle as its cloud infrastructure provider to address the strong spike in its meeting participants, which has climbed to a daily average of 300M. According to Eric Yuan, chief executive officer of Zoom, Oracle stood out from other platforms owing to the security, performance and unmatched level of support provided […]
Bill Zielinski has announced his resignation from the General Services Administration, where he currently serves as the assistant commissioner for the Office of Information Technology Category within the Federal Acquisition Service, to start a job in local government. Effective June 5, Zielinski will wrap up his four-year career at GSA, having made significant contributions to […]
SiriusIQ has entered into a partnership with Madiba to enable their joint customers to rapidly adopt Microsoft Azure for critical applications and databases. To do so, Madiba intends to embed its services into SiriusIQ’s Cloud Correct solution, thereby providing its customers access to a rapid lift-and-shift of enterprise resource planning systems, greenfield migration, and upgrades […]
AT&T has announced that 60-year-old Randall Stephenson will retire as the company's chairman and CEO after 13 years of service. He will stay in the company as executive chairman of the board of directors until January 31, 2021, to facilitate the transfer of leadership. “Randall has done an outstanding job as CEO in transforming AT&T […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has officially appointed Rashmi Kumar as chief information officer after three months of holding the position on an interim basis. Since assuming the role in January, Kumar has been responsible for building capabilities to ensure HPE’s longevity in the industry. While serving as interim CIO, Kumar strengthened her leadership bench, facilitated the […]
SQream Technologies, a data warehouse technology developer, has partnered with artificial intelligence company Core Scientific. In a press release, SQream said it plans to create solutions that would enable accelerated analytics of massive data on the GPU Cloud for Data Scientists. “SQream running on the Cloud for Data Scientists empowers customers to turns massive datasets […]
Deepwatch has entered into a partnership with Set Solutions to help medium and large enterprises avert advanced cyber threats through the use of managed security services and best-of-breed technology. Michael Farnum, chief technology officer at Set Solutions, considers deepwatch as the leading managed security service provider in terms of advanced security technology capabilities, scalability and […]
Appen Eight, an artificial intelligence modeling company, has appointed David Poirier as senior vice president. He will be responsible for growing the company's partnership with government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Joint AI Center. Poirier brings into his new role over two decades of military experience and an extensive track record in […]
Accenture has announced plans to acquire Gekko, a major Amazon Web Services cloud services company, in a bid to expand its AWS resources in France. In a press release, Accenture said the acquisition would support enterprise migrations and development on cloud platforms for the benefit of businesses. The deal is still subject to customary closing […]
Essye Miller, principal deputy chief information officer and former acting CIO for the Department of Defense, has announced her retirement set for June 30. Miller will retire from public service after a 35-year career in government information technology, holding key positions with the Air Force, Army and the DoD. During her tenure at the OCIO, […]
