Government Cloud

Learn about the latest technologies that drive the rapid adoption of cloud services by the public sector. This section focuses on offerings for public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments specifically tailored for federal agencies.

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  • NEC Joins Red Hat’s Certified Cloud, Service Provider Program; Paul Smith, Hide Senta Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NEC Joins Red Hat’s Certified Cloud, Service Provider Program; Paul Smith, Hide Senta Comment

    Red Hat has named NEC Corp. of America as a cloud platform and services provider after the latter company completed certification and testing requirements for enterprise cloud deployments. NEC will use managed, multi-tenant models to offer its portfolio of private cloud and platform-as-a-service offerings to government agencies through Red Hat’s Certified Cloud and Service Provider program, […] More

  • Microsoft’s Susie Adams Advises Agencies to Use Proposed Federal IT Fund on Cloud Transition Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Susie Adams Advises Agencies to Use Proposed Federal IT Fund on Cloud Transition Analysis

    Susie Adams, chief technology officer of Microsoft’s federal business, has urged agencies to use the White House’s proposed $3.1 billion information technology modernization fund for cloud transition analysis efforts, Nextgov reported Friday. Mohana Ravindranath writes Adams advised government agencies to develop a multiyear plan and use the proposed budget to examine what applications must be […] More

  • Qualtrics Achieves 'In-Process' Status in FedRAMP Compliance For Insight Collection Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics Achieves ‘In-Process’ Status in FedRAMP Compliance For Insight Collection Platform

    Qualtrics has achieved “in-process” status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based insight collection and analysis platform. The software company said Wednesday the Department of Health and Human Services sponsors its efforts to obtain compliance certification at the moderate level. Ryan Smith, co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics, said the in-process status helps make the Insight Platform more accessible […] More

  • Ekuber Ventures to Help Maintain Commerce Dept's Customer Relationship, Content Mgmt Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ekuber Ventures to Help Maintain Commerce Dept’s Customer Relationship, Content Mgmt Systems

    The Commerce Department has selected ekuber Ventures to provide lifecycle support for the department’s customer relationship management and Drupal content management systems under a multi-million dollar contract. Ekuber said Tuesday it will maintain a Siebel CRM platform in three ecosystems for the department as well as transition applications to the Salesforce platform. The company will also help the department implement Drupal components, develop Drupal features, move into the Amazon […] More

  • AINS to Offer USDA HR Applications Under $92M BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AINS to Offer USDA HR Applications Under $92M BPA

    The Agriculture Department will purchase AINS-developed employee relations and labor relations applications under a five-year, $92 million blanket purchase agreement USDA uses to acquire non-core human resource tools for the agency’s National Finance Center systems. AINS said Tuesday the company will offer the eCase HR ER/LR applications to all federal government agencies under the agreement and provide NFC customers a platform […] More

  • TIBCO Secures FedRAMP Approval for Enterprise Social Collaboration Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TIBCO Secures FedRAMP Approval for Enterprise Social Collaboration Tool

    TIBCO Software Inc. has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for the company’s social enterprise collaboration platform after it completed the government’s security assessment process for cloud offerings. The tibbr 7 platform works to help organizations collaborate with vendors, customers and partners as well as assess collaboration activities through social analytics, TIBCO said Tuesday. “We’re delighted to announce our FedRAMP certification […] More

  • VA to Procure Enterprise Cloud Services Through NIH NITAAC Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA to Procure Enterprise Cloud Services Through NIH NITAAC Contract Vehicle

    The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to acquire enterprise cloud computing services through a contract vehicle managed by the National Institutes of Health’s national information technology acquisition and assessment center. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the initiative is part of the department’s efforts to update its information technology infrastructure through migration of data to […] More

  • CGI Launches Records Mgmt Offering For Government Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Launches Records Mgmt Offering For Government Users

    CGI has unveiled a new records management platform meant to help government agencies meet the White House’s target dates for the government-wide electronic records management modernization directive. The company said Monday its Records Management as a Service offering is based on OpenText‘s Content Suite platform and Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud computing system. CGI added it designed RMaaS to meet the Defense Department‘s electronics records […] More

  • Eccovia Solutions to Offer Case Mgmt System Through Microsoft Azure Govt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eccovia Solutions to Offer Case Mgmt System Through Microsoft Azure Govt Platform

    Eccovia Solutions plans to offer a case management system to agencies and other enterprise organizations in the health and human services sector through Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud computing platform. Eccovia said Wednesday the case management tool works to address the need for integrated technology systems that support collaboration between government agencies and social service organizations, care providers and others. Eccovia CEO […] More

  • ReportBuyer: Global Military IT, Data, Computing Market to Reach $80.5B by 2026 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportBuyer: Global Military IT, Data, Computing Market to Reach $80.5B by 2026

    ReportBuyer has released a new report that predicts the gobal military information technology, data and computing market will hit $80.5 billion by 2026 from $62.9 billion in 2016. The growing demand for cloud-based infrastructure will drive the market during the forecast period to a compound annual growth rate of 2.50 percent, ReportBuyer said Wednesday. The […] More

  • InfoReliance Receives AWS Govt Competency Certification in 8 Customer Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoReliance Receives AWS Govt Competency Certification in 8 Customer Markets

    InfoReliance has received Amazon Web Services‘ AWS Government Competency certification in eight customer markets for compliance with AWS standards in workload and application deployment on the Amazon cloud platform. Fairfax, Virginia-based InfoReliance said Friday it utilizes best practices and lessons from various industries to support accelerated AWS adoption for customers. InfoReliance is an AWS audited managed service partner, advanced consulting partner and […] More

  • Carahsoft, Pixlogic Join AWS Intell Community Cloud Tech Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, Pixlogic Join AWS Intell Community Cloud Tech Marketplace

    Carahsoft Technology and Pixlogic are included in a list of vendors authorized to market cloud-based products and services to the U.S. intelligence community via an Amazon Web Services-run online marketplace. Carahsoft will offer Pixlogic-made image and video automated search software piXserve to 17 IC agencies through the AWS Marketplace as Pixlogic’s government distributor, Pixlogic said Thursday. The platform is designed to […] More