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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  • Verizon Cloud Platform Secures FedRAMP Authority to Operate; Michael Maiorana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Cloud Platform Secures FedRAMP Authority to Operate; Michael Maiorana Comments

    Verizon Enterprise Solutions has secured Department of Health and Human Services authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to deploy its cloud platform for the public sector. Kevin Irland, a corporate communications manager at the company, writes Thursday that the authority to operate is for its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offering. The report said Verizon intends to leverage the […] More

  • Software AG Offers Cloud-Based BPA-as-a-Service; Wolfram Jost Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Software AG Offers Cloud-Based BPA-as-a-Service; Wolfram Jost Comments

    Software AG has unveiled a business-process-analysis-as-a-service tool that works to provide process documentation, analysis and optimization functions via private and public cloud to help organizations address emerging business and market needs. The company said Thursday the ARIS Cloud offering is available in basic, advanced and enterprise versions via Amazon Web Services based on the scale of implementation of process improvement efforts. Wolfram […] More

  • Autonomic Resources Cloud Platform Passes DoD Impact Level 5 Assessment; John Keese Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Autonomic Resources Cloud Platform Passes DoD Impact Level 5 Assessment; John Keese Comments

    Autonomic Resources‘ cloud platform has passed the Defense Department‘s impact level five assessment for the agency’s cloud security model. Veris Group conducted the evaluation process on Autonomic Resources’ 68 new security controls against DoD’s requirements, Autonomic Resources said Wednesday. “The additional security controls applied to ARC-P to gain DoD approval are also applied to all civilian agencies’ infrastructures,” said John […] More

  • Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud

    Red Hat and Dell have partnered to combine Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise platform and Dell’s PowerEdge R420 server and partner services program into the integrated DevOps Solution Starter Pack offering. Red Hat said Tuesday that Vizuri and other channel partners will resell the package, which works to deliver platform-as-a-service hybrid cloud tools to developers, administrators and other customers. Joe Dickman, senior vice president of […] More

  • VA Taps ManTech's 7 Delta Subsidiary for Cloud Computing Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Taps ManTech’s 7 Delta Subsidiary for Cloud Computing Tool

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a potential three-year, $48.6 million task order to a ManTech International subsidiary for a cloud computing infrastructure and migration services. 7Delta will deliver a cloud setup to the VA for the department to access information technology infrastructure services, ManTech said Wednesday. ManTech said 7Delta will migrate all parts […] More

  • IDC: Public IT Cloud Spending to Hit $127B in 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Public IT Cloud Spending to Hit $127B in 2018

    A new forecast from International Data Corp. predicts public information technology cloud services spending will grow to more than $127 billion in 2018 from the $56.6 billion projected for 2014. That IT cloud spending growth represents more than 50 percent of software, server and storage spending worldwide in 2018, IDC said Monday. “Over the next four to five years, IDC expects the […] More

  • Siki Giunta: Verizon Aims to Increase Global Cloud Market Share - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siki Giunta: Verizon Aims to Increase Global Cloud Market Share

    Siki Giunta, senior vice president for global cloud business at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company aims to be a top provider of cloud computing products and services in the international market, Fortune magazine reported Thursday. “We want to be a global player,” Giunta told the magazine. Katherine Noyes writes Giunta is responsible for helping […] More

  • Dave Amoriell: Xerox Maven Software Deployed for Ebola Contact Tracing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Amoriell: Xerox Maven Software Deployed for Ebola Contact Tracing

    Xerox has released an update of its Maven outbreak management software that works to host contact-tracing data on communicable diseases such as Ebola and other public health information in a cloud platform. The company said Thursday that Maven leverages data and analytics to track the path of infection or exposure to disease and facilitates data sharing and integration between public […] More

  • John Lind: QTS Seeks to Provide Security, Compliance with FedRAMP-Ready Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Lind: QTS Seeks to Provide Security, Compliance with FedRAMP-Ready Cloud

    QTS Realty Trust is set to become the latest cloud service provider to reach FedRAMP Ready status with its QTS Federal Cloud infrastructure as a service solution. The company said Tuesday QTS Federal Cloud’s third-party assessment results and other documentation are now under readiness review from the FedRAMP Program Management Office. The FedRAMP Ready category […] More

  • NetApp Acquires Riverbed's Cloud Backup Product Line; Jonathan Kissane Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp Acquires Riverbed’s Cloud Backup Product Line; Jonathan Kissane Comments

    NetApp has acquired Riverbed Technology‘s cloud-integrated backup product line for approximately $80 million in an effort to help clients manage data across cloud platforms. NetApp will consolidate the SteelStore product with other cloud-integrated storage offerings for customers to back up their data in private and public cloud environments, NetApp said Monday. NetApp plans to roll out the SteelStore product in the third […] More

  • Damian Whitham: General Dynamics IT Uses Data to Guide Federal Clients' Cloud Migration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Damian Whitham: General Dynamics IT Uses Data to Guide Federal Clients’ Cloud Migration

    Damian Whitham, senior director of cloud computing solutions at General Dynamics Information Technology, said research data helps the organization to align its cloud service offerings with government customers’ needs, FedPulse reported Tuesday. He told FedPulse reporter Susan Rose the firm commissioned an online survey of 150 IT professionals across multiple federal agencies to find out […] More

  • Verizon: Enterprise Cloud Spending Up 38% Over Previous Year - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon: Enterprise Cloud Spending Up 38% Over Previous Year

    A new Verizon study has found that 65 percent of businesses leverage cloud computing products and services to manage their information technology infrastructure. Kevin King, corporate communications director at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said Tuesday the “State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud 2014” report indicates chief information officers and chief technology officers oversee about 62 percent […] More