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BGOV: IBM’s Planned Red Hat Purchase Could Reshape Federal Cloud Market
IBM’s planned $34B acquisition of Red Hat could have an impact on the federal cloud market and agencies’ information technology modernization plans, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. IBM agreed in late October to pay $190 in cash for each share of Red Hat in a move to establish a global provider of hybrid cloud platforms. BGOV […] More
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CGI Helps USAID Adopt Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure
CGI has helped the U.S. Agency for International Development transition USDA’s information technology infrastructure to a hybrid cloud computing environment in an effort to comply with the White House’s Federal Cloud First Policy. The company said Tuesday used its Unify360 suite of IT management tools and services to migrate more than 900 agency physical and virtual servers into the […] More
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Unisys to Build Cloud-Based IT Platform for Kansas Executive Branch; Michael Morrison Quoted
Unisys has won a potential $40M contract to help Kansas’ executive branch manage information technology operations with a hybrid cloud platform. The company said Wednesday it will build an IT infrastructure for state government personnel to access cloud services from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Michael Morrison, vice president and general manager of Unisys operations in […] More
IBM, Hortonworks, Red Hat Unveil Hybrid Cloud Deployment Initiative; Rob Bearden Quoted
IBM, Hortonworks and Red Hat have launched a new initiative designed to help users field and run big data workloads in hybrid cloud environments. The companies will leverage IBM Cloud Private for Data, Hortwonworks DataPlane, HortonWorks Data Flow and Hortonworks Data Platform with the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes-based container offering to allow users to deploy containerized workloads […] More
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Unisys Lands Potential $219M Georgia Cloud IT Contract
Unisys has received a potential eight-year, $219M contract to provide a hybrid cloud platform meant to help government agencies in Georgia manage citizen services delivery efforts across the state. The contract with the Georgia Technology Authority has a base term of five years and six months and three one-year options and calls for Unisys to serve […] More
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Microsoft Launches Hybrid Cloud Offering for Azure Government
Microsoft has made its Azure Stack hybrid cloud offering available to Azure Government cloud platform users. Natalia Mackevicius, program director for Azure Stack, wrote in a blog entry posted Monday the Azure Stack for Azure Government offering seeks to help government clients comply with data requirements by providing them access to the same set of DevOps tools, […] More
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ORock’s Red Hat OpenStack-Based Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP Authorization; Paul Smith Interviewed
ORock Technologies has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its Red Hat OpenStack-based cloud platform. A Defense Department agency granted the FedRAMP authorization to operate to ORockCloud at the moderate impact level for hybrid cloud deployments and Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service models, ORock said Tuesday. “The ORockCloud brings to market the realization of […] More
Dell EMC’s Steve Harris: Agencies Need Long-Term IT Modernization Plan to Reduce Technical Debt
Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies need a long-term plan for digital transformation in order to reduce technical debt and leverage the Technology Modernization Fund through the Modernizing Government Technology Act. Harris wrote in a FedScoop article posted Thursday organizations accumulate technical debt through […] More
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AWS Introduces New Apps to GovCloud; Teresa Carlson Comments
Amazon Web Services has unveiled new applications on the GovCloud platform that works to host sensitive workloads and data in compliance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and other security regulations, GCN reported Friday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS, introduced at the AWS Public Sector Summit those services […] More
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AWS, VMware Launch Hybrid Cloud Service; Key Executives Interviewed
VMware and Amazon Web Services have unveiled a hybrid cloud service designed to help government agencies accelerate migration of applications to the cloud and securely manage workloads through a common infrastructure. VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) runs on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud bare-metal infrastructure and is equipped with VMware’s Cloud Foundation software-defined data […] More
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Microsoft, Thales Forge Defense Cloud Dev’t Partnership
Thales and Microsoft have teamed up to build a cloud platform designed to help the armed forces and other defense clients store and secure classified and sensitive data within their information technology infrastructure. Microsoft said Tuesday it will integrate its Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform with Thales’ cybersecurity and encryption tools to develop the defense […] More