Government Cloud

CenturyLink has introduced an offering meant to help enterprise customers connect across hybrid cloud workloads through a portal or an application program interface integration method. The Cloud Connect Dynamic Connections service is intended to link CenturyLink’s fiber network of public and private data centers and on-net enterprise facilities to multiple cloud service providers, the company said Tuesday. The communications […] More

Julia White, corporate vice president for Microsoft Azure, has said Microsoft will launch new Azure Government cloud regions by the end of the first quarter of 2019 to allow the Defense Department and intelligence agencies to manage Secret-level classified data. White wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the company plans to expand the […] More

QTS Realty Trust has chosen Cohesity to power cloud-based managed backup services intended to help clients simplify data security processes. The QTS Managed Backup offering uses hyperconverged technology to protect and recover files and applications through a single web-scale platform, the company said Wednesday. QTS engineers will monitor and track security issues for customers of the backup platform designed […] More

FireEye‘s cloud-based email security offerings have received certifications from Schellman & Company and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The enterprise cybersecurity company said Tuesday its Email Security Cloud Edition obtained International Organization for Standardization 27001:2013 certification and Service Organization Controls Type 2 recertification for security and confidentiality. The platform is designed to block potentially […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks input from industry, academia and the general public on the advantages of open access to data through NOAA’s Big Data Project collaborators. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says NOAA will collect and use feedback to determine end user needs as well as the impact of agency data across the marketplace. […] More

Dave Vennergrund, director of data and analytics at General Dynamics’ information technology business unit, has said cloud technology offers an avenue for federal agencies and companies to develop artificial intelligence tools. He wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that cloud provides a system designed to facilitate algorithmic machine learning processes; services intended to support deep […] More

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

The Defense Department has again extended the deadline of bidding for a $10B cloud services contract and asked vendors to submit proposals in person, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Interested parties may contact procurement officials to arrange submission details through Oct. 10, and deliver their responses to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure solicitation on DVDs by Oct. 12. Bidders […] More

Opus Interactive will host its portfolio of custom cloud services from Iron Mountain’s Northern Virginia data center campus to meet the digital needs of government customers in the East Coast. The expansion will enable the cloud services provider to support federal agencies in the U.S.’ Eastern region that are modernizing their systems to comply with data […] More

CrowdStrike has been authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to support the U.S. government in modernizing its information technology systems using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. As a FedRAMP-certified cloud service provider, Crowdstrike will continue to serve the private sector, as well as expand its services to the federal, state and local governments […] More