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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  • CenturyLink to Offer Government Cloud Service Via GSA Networx Vehicle; Tim Meehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Offer Government Cloud Service Via GSA Networx Vehicle; Tim Meehan Comments

    CenturyLink will offer its cloud infrastructure-as-a-service product to federal agencies through the company’s position on the General Services Administration‘s Networx contract vehicle. CenturyLink Government Cloud works to help agencies move their data workloads to the cloud through the VMware-built vCloud Government Services IaaS platform, CenturyLink said Tuesday. Tim Meehan, senior vice president and general manager of CenturyLink’s federal business, said the […] More

  • IBM Secures DISA Impact-Level 5 Cloud Security Certification; Sam Gordy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Secures DISA Impact-Level 5 Cloud Security Certification; Sam Gordy Comments

    IBM has received a Defense Information Systems Agency authorization to host impact-level 5 data workloads for the Defense Department through the firm’s cloud service. The conditional authority-to-operate certification allows IBM to provide its Cloud suite for the management of controlled unclassified information at DoD, the company said Thursday. The service is offered from the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in […] More

  • NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to award Ball Aerospace & Technologies a one-year, sole-source contract to provide design and development support for NGA’s Accelerated Cloud Transition program. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the contract covers data tagging support for the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise’s GovCloud platform and commercial cloud services. Contract […] More

  • Cornerstone OnDemand Secures FedRAMP Approval for Talent Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cornerstone OnDemand Secures FedRAMP Approval for Talent Mgmt Platform

    Cornerstone OnDemand has obtained a Federal Risk Authorization Management Program certification to offer the company’s cloud-based talent management platform to government agencies. Cornerstone said Tuesday it aims to help agency human resource managers recruit, train and engage workers through its software offering. “We look forward to continuing to serve the talent management needs of federal agencies and […] More

  • Chad Woolf: AWS Guidance Aims to Help Agencies Secure Cloud Network Connections - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chad Woolf: AWS Guidance Aims to Help Agencies Secure Cloud Network Connections

    Amazon Web Services has developed a framework meant to help agencies and vendors architect Trusted Internet Connection-ready cloud computing tools that comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s moderate baseline security requirements. The Guidance for TIC Readiness on AWS was produced after the cloud service provider completed its FedRAMP-Trusted Internet Connection Overlay testing program, Chad Woolf, AWS’ director […] More

  • Decision Lens Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Software; John Kealey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Decision Lens Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Software; John Kealey Comments

    Decision Lens has received agency authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based software. The company said Wednesday it obtained the FedRAMP certification through sponsorship from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Decision Lens’ Software-as-a-Service platform is deployed in a public cloud environment and works to help government and commercial clients analyze, prioritize […] More

  • Google Apps for Work Clears FedRAMP Authorization Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Apps for Work Clears FedRAMP Authorization Process

    Amit Singh, president of Google for Work, has announced that Google will deliver what the search giant calls unlimited cloud storage to U.S. government agencies through the Google Apps for Work offering. Singh wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that the company has received authorization under FedRAMP — the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program — to offer the cloud-based […] More

  • DLT Joins AWS Managed Service Provider Network; Brian Strosser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Joins AWS Managed Service Provider Network; Brian Strosser Comments

    DLT Solutions has received clearance from Amazon Web Services to deliver AWS’ cloud infrastructure and applications in the public sector market as a managed service provider. The company will offer technical and business support for AWS cloud services through the General Services Administration IT Schedule 70, CIO CS, Internet2 and other contract vehicles, DLT said Thursday. “Achieving this […] More

  • Grant Thornton Accredited as FedRAMP 3rd-Party Assessment Organization; Dennis Bell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Accredited as FedRAMP 3rd-Party Assessment Organization; Dennis Bell Comments

    Grant Thornton has been authorized to assess cloud vendors that work with the federal government under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation administered the FedRAMP accreditation process for Grant Thornton, the company said Wednesday. As a third-party assessment organization, Grant Thornton will assist companies as they comply with FedRAMP […] More

  • Vazata Achieves Federal Cloud Security Clearance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vazata Achieves Federal Cloud Security Clearance

    Vazata has received an authorization from the Joint Authorization Board to provide a Virtual Federal Image cloud platform to government agencies. The infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud managed service provider received provisional authority to operate cloud services for federal clients under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Vazata said Wednesday. The FedRAMP authorization means Vazata’s IaaS […] More

  • FedRAMP Advocacy Group Proposes Overhaul of Govt Cloud Certification Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Advocacy Group Proposes Overhaul of Govt Cloud Certification Process

    A MeriTalk-formed industry advocacy group has developed a six-step plan that it believes the U.S. government should adopt to increase transparency and efficiency in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP Fast Forward said Monday it crafted the proposal in a move to encourage the federal government to implement a “do-once-use-many” approach to assess and […] More

  • IDC: SaaS Platform to Dominate Public Cloud Services Growth Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: SaaS Platform to Dominate Public Cloud Services Growth Through 2019

    An International Data Corp. report forecasts public cloud services spending will increase to around $141 billion by 2019 from almost $70 billion last year, with software as a service to overtake other cloud computing service models. The public cloud-spend projection represents a compound annual growth rate of 19.4 percent and is nearly six times the projected CAGR for […] More