Government Cloud

Cloudera has achieved Service Organization Control 2 Type II certification for two of the company’s cloud offerings. The company said Tuesday it received the certification after Coalfire Controls conducted an independent evaluation of Cloudera Director and Cloudera Navigator Optimizer and their compliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Security Trust Services Principle and Criteria. Cloudera […] More

Palo Alto Networks has begun to offer its virtualized firewall on Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud platform in a move to help public sector customers protect their applications and data in the cloud. Microsoft said Monday that Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series firewall works to analyze all traffic in a single pass to determine application identity, content and user identity. The […] More

Accenture has received a five-year contract from the Securities and Exchange Commission to set up and maintain a structure designed to deliver enterprise automation support services related to the ServiceNow cloud-based platform to SEC. Accenture’s federal services business has partnered with Bravium Consulting to provide ServiceNow-related capabilities to SEC under the blanket purchase agreement, Accenture […] More

The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Red Hat‘s cloud platform within the laboratory’s compute and data infrastructure to support scientific and computational research projects at ORNL. Red Hat said Monday ORNL uses the company’s OpenStack Platform to provide cloud services in its Compute And Data Environment for Science infrastructure, which is designed to deliver computing, data analytics, […] More

Seven companies have gained priority status to work with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board to obtain a provisional authority-to-operate for different cloud technology and service offerings. FedRAMP said Tuesday the seven cloud service providers were selected to participate in the FedRAMP Connect initiative based on government demand for the companies’ products and a set […] More

IBM has opened four new cloud data centers in U.S. to address the demand for cloud infrastructure that can support access to services such as internet of things, blockchain, quantum computing and cognitive technology. The company said Wednesday it established two new facilities each in Dallas, Texas and Washington, D.C. as part of efforts to expand its global cloud footprint […] More

Box has received authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host impact-level 4 data workloads for the Defense Department through the company’s cloud platform. The provisional authority-to-operate approval allows the use of Box’s cloud offering for the management of controlled unclassified data at DoD, the company said Wednesday. Box began an evaluation and authorization process to meet […] More

Intel has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to work on a three-year, $4.1 million program to research and develop analytics tools for public officials, businesses and consumers to obtain insights from large volumes of online video content. The company and CMU will conduct the research program at the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Cloud […] More

EPAY Systems has gained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer its human capital management platforms to government agencies. The company said Monday it aims to support government “Cloud First” initiatives and help federal customers manage and secure information. EPAY Systems implemented measures to reduce cyber risks as well as increase uptime and resistance to data exfiltration in the company’s products […] More

Governments agencies have turned to hybrid cloud platforms in order to both take advantage of cloud capabilities and support legacy systems, QTS Realty Trust Executive Vice President Dave McOmber said in a Federal News Radio panel discussion posted Thursday. McOmber, who is in charge of public sector and federal sales at QTS, participated in the discussion with Bill […] More