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  • CSRA's Yogesh Khanna to Lead Conference Call on Federal Cloud Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA’s Yogesh Khanna to Lead Conference Call on Federal Cloud Adoption

    CSRA will hold a conference call on July 17 with the investment community and government information technology professionals to discuss cloud adoption within the U.S. federal government. Yogesh Khanna, CSRA chief technology officer, will facilitate the conference call alongside federal practice leaders from Microsoft and ServiceNow, CSRA said Monday. The call will be publicly accessible through […] More

  • InfoReliance Meets AWS Workload Competency Requirements for 3 Microsoft Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoReliance Meets AWS Workload Competency Requirements for 3 Microsoft Platforms

    Amazon Web Services has granted certification to Fairfax County, Virginia-based InfoReliance for the latter company’s capacity to help customers migrate, deploy or manage Microsoft workloads to an AWS platform. InfoReliance said Friday it demonstrated technical expertise to support Microsoft-based Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server platforms through customer case studies under the AWS Partner Competency Program. John Sankovich, executive vice president of InfoReliance’s […] More

  • Boeing to Sponsor AFA's Cyber Education Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Sponsor AFA’s Cyber Education Program

    Boeing has been named a diamond-level sponsor for a cyber education program managed by the Air Force Association. AFA said Friday Boeing will help expand the CyberPatriot program’s efforts to promote cyber, science, technology, engineering and math education across U.S. The program works to facilitate the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition for high school and middle school students, […] More

  • Avtex to Offer Agencies Hosted Azure Services Via Microsoft CSP Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avtex to Offer Agencies Hosted Azure Services Via Microsoft CSP Program

    Avtex has joined Microsoft‘s Cloud Solutions Provider program to market and support hosted Azure services for public sector customers. Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Provider program for Azure Government offers an opportunity for member companies to help government clients address mission requirements with the cloud computing platform, Avtex said Monday. Tom Keene, general manager for Microsoft Azure, said the CSP program […] More

  • Accenture-Microsoft-Avanade Team Develops Blockhain-Based Digital Identity Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture-Microsoft-Avanade Team Develops Blockhain-Based Digital Identity Prototype

    Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade have teamed up to build a blockchain-based digital identity prototype in support of a global public-private initiative that aims to address challenges faced by people who do not have documented identity. The prototype runs on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and builds on Accenture’s previous experience in the development of blockchain and biometric systems, Accenture […] More

  • Tom Keane: Microsoft Debuts Internet-of-Things Hub on Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Keane: Microsoft Debuts Internet-of-Things Hub on Azure Govt Cloud

    Microsoft has introduced an internet-of-things hub on the company’s Azure Government cloud platform in a push to help customer agencies connect, track and manage connected devices. Tom Keane, general manager of the Microsoft Azure team, wrote in a blog entry published Monday the IoT Hub is designed to help government users secure communications from  device to cloud and or vice versa. The […] More

  • StoneFly Integrates Disaster Recovery Tool With Microsoft Azure, AWS Cloud Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    StoneFly Integrates Disaster Recovery Tool With Microsoft Azure, AWS Cloud Platforms

    StoneFly has combined its disaster recovery and backup tool with cloud platforms from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. The integration with AWS’ Amazon Glacier and Simple Storage Service as well as Microsoft’s Azure Government and public cloud platforms seeks to equip StoneFly’s DR365 disaster recovery system with repositories designed to secure data, StoneFly said Wednesday. DR365 has […] More

  • Cloudera Unveils Managed Data Engineering Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera Unveils Managed Data Engineering Service

    Cloudera has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help data engineers run large-scale data processing applications in a public cloud environment. Altus works to help enterprise users accelerate the development and operation of elastic data pipelines that power data-driven applications through on-demand infrastructure, Cloudera said Wednesday. The service is now available in most Amazon Web Services cloud regions and the […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Microsoft, Bain Capital, CNTP Invest in Frame Cloud-Based App Delivery Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel, Microsoft, Bain Capital, CNTP Invest in Frame Cloud-Based App Delivery Platform

    Frame, a developer of cloud application delivery platform, has secured $16 million in a funding round that included investors In-Q-Tel, Microsoft‘s ventures arm, Bain Capital Ventures and Columbus Nova Technology Partners. In-Q-Tel said Wednesday that Frame developed a platform that works to help organizations migrate desktops and virtual applications to any device through Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services cloud platforms. […] More

  • StoneFly Integrates Veeam Backup Storage Platform With Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    StoneFly Integrates Veeam Backup Storage Platform With Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud

    StoneFly has incorporated its cloud storage offering designed for Veeam Software’s backup and disaster recovery tool into Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud platform. StoneFly’s Scale-Out Cloud Storage for Veeam platform works to help users manage multiple nodes for cloud storage and repositories through a common user interface as well as access file storage, block storage and other […] More

  • IronNet's Keith Alexander: Govt-Industry Collaboration Needed to 'De-Risk' Security Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IronNet’s Keith Alexander: Govt-Industry Collaboration Needed to ‘De-Risk’ Security Tools

    Retired U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, president and CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity, has said the government and private sector must work together to fight cyber threats and de-risk security tools that intelligence agencies use against enemies following a ransomware attack that has affected systems worldwide, TechCrunch reported Wednesday. The former National Security Agency director talked about the global “WannaCry” attack […] More

  • Susie Adams: Microsoft Provides Tech Support for VA Healthcare Access Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Susie Adams: Microsoft Provides Tech Support for VA Healthcare Access Tool

    Microsoft has provided its government cloud platform and database technology to the Department of Veterans Affairs in an effort to help VA launch a web-based tool for military veterans and family members to access their healthcare data electronically. Susie Adams, chief technology officer of Microsoft’s federal business, said Thursday VA’s Access to Care platform is built and hosted in […] More