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Bernie Guerry: General Dynamics IT Consolidates Facilities, Adopts New Operating Model Since CSRA Purchase
Bernie Guerry, chief operating officer of General Dynamics’ information technology business, said GDIT has consolidated over 50 facilities as well as data centers since the parent company closed its approximately $9.7B purchase of CSRA in April 2018, Inside Defense reported Friday. GDIT implemented a centralized operating framework for contracts, security, finance, human resources and other functions to "take advantage of scale and be able to move resources, scale resources when and where needed," he told reporters Thursday.
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Dell EMC, GSA Reach Governmentwide Procurement Deal for Virtual Computing Environment Platforms
The General Services Administration and Dell EMC have reached a governmentwide enterprise agreement to facilitate the procurement of the company’s virtual computing environment platforms to help federal agencies advance data center modernization. The agreement allows federal, local, state and tribal government agencies to place an order for Dell EMC’s VxRail products at tiered discounts through Carahsoft Technology’s spot on GSA’s IT Schedule 70 contract, the agency said Thursday.
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Federal Acquisition Service Solicits Comments on DEOS Cloud Computing Project
The General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service seeks industry feedback on a potential $8B cloud computing project that aims to unify networks and data centers across the Defense Department. The request for information solicits public comment on enterprise hardware, software licenses, and deployment and sustainment services covered in the first capability set of the Defense […] More
Red Hat, NVIDIA Team Up to Support AI, Deep Learning Workloads; SAIC’s Charles Onstott Quoted
Red Hat and NVIDIA have agreed to advance the use of open-source platforms to support artificial intelligence, data science and deep learning workloads in enterprise data centers. Red Hat said Tuesday it secured certification to deploy its Enterprise Linux operating system and Kubernetes platform on NVIDIA DGX-1 hardware systems through the partnership. The collaboration aims to […] More
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Federal Execs Expect IT Spending to Move Toward Gov’t Community Clouds in Two Years; IBM’s Andras Szakal Quoted
A new study underwritten by IBM has found that three in four information technology executives at federal agencies expect IT investment shifts in the next two years, FedScoop reported Monday. The survey found that 26 percent of agency program management and IT executives expect their agencies to spend on government-only community cloud platforms in the […] More
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DoD Seeks Industry Questions About Revised JEDI Cloud RFP
The Defense Department has launched a second round of comment period for industry to submit questions about DoD’s revised request for proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program, Nextgov reported Friday. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says cloud service providers should send their questions about the amended JEDI cloud RFP through Tuesday, […] More
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SAIC Enters Data Center Lease Agreement With CyrusOne; Bob Fecteau Quoted
Science Applications International Corp. has signed a multiyear lease deal with CyrusOne to move one of its data centers to the latter’s data center location in Northern Virginia by the first six months of 2019. “During the past seven years, CyrusOne and SAIC have developed a strong relationship that will continue to grow with our new […] More
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Unisys Secures $242M Virginia IT Support Contract
Unisys has received a potential six-year, $242.4M contract to provide storage, server and data center services to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. VITA said Wednesday it selected the company after the agency and experts from the state’s executive branch units conducted in-depth studies and evaluations of proposals for the project. Virginia Chief Information Officer Nelson […] More
QTS Completes First Phase of Mega Data Center Construction in Northern Virginia
QTS Realty Trust has finished the first-phase construction of a new facility in Ashburn, Va., in 10 months to meet the increasing demand for hyperscale data center and hybrid colocation products and services. The data center services provider stood up a three-story center that has 32 megawatts of critical power capacity that will be used […] More
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Accenture’s Federal Arm to Help Build Library of Congress Data Center; Elaine Beeman Comments
Accenture‘s federal services business will build a data repository for the Library of Congress under a potential three-year, $27.3 million contract. Elaine Beeman, senior managing director and civilian portfolio lead at Accenture Federal Services, said in a statement released Wednesday the project is key to helping the library deploy technology designed to facilitate digital access to its collection of […] More
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Equinix Completes Integration of Verizon’s Terremark Federal Group Into Government Arm
Equinix has wrapped up the integration of Verizon’s Terremark Federal Group subsidiary into its government solutions business. Equinix said Tuesday it expects TFG to broaden its contract vehicles and help build up its capability to bring data center platforms and interconnection services to federal agencies and civilian research and education organizations as they advance their […] More