Virtual networking giant ​Brocade has promoted its CTO Phil O'Reilly to be vice president of federal sales — leading the firm's efforts to sell to the Defense Department, intelligence agencies and U.S. civilian government.

To get started, "you need to develop expertise in-house and foster champions for the new technology," a Brocade VP said.

Jeff Castro, IT portfolio manager for the U.S. Marine Corps, spoke at Brocade's Federal Forum along with Selina Lo of Ruckus Wireless.

Networking solutions firm Brocade announced a multi-year strategic partnership with defense IT contractor Harris Tuesday, and unveiled a prototype of the first fruit of the new alliance — a "cyber maneuver engine" designed to conceal data and network architecture from hackers who may get into a system

​AT&T​ has named Anthony Robbins its vice president for global defense on its public sector solutions team.

44 percent of mission critical workloads and 37 percent of business critical workloads use a shared network compared to a dedicated network, even though they are less reliable, according to the report released Tuesday.