Government Cloud

CenturyLink has begun to offer its customers Pivotal’s platform-as-a-service environment via CenturyLink’s cloud marketplace, Talking Cloud reported Friday. Dave Shacochis, vice president of cloud platform for CenturyLink, said the company intends for the Pivotal cloud foundry to expand the developer community’s access to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, Mike Vizard reports. Shacochis noted that cloud foundry environments […] More

Brian Houston, a vice president at Hitachi Data Systems‘ U.S. federal subsidiary, believes agencies need to apply analytics to virtualized environments in order to gain insights into their data situation, FCW reported Tuesday. “The biggest issue that everybody’s trying to get their hands around is, ‘What do we really have?’” Houston told FCW’s Zach Noble. He […] More

Oracle has received a Defense Department Authority to Operate for its Oracle Service Cloud software-as-a-service offering under security impact Level 4 of the DoD Cloud Security Model. The company said Tuesday Oracle Service Cloud is a customer service platform that is part of its U.S. DoD Cloud portfolio. “[DoD] can now procure commercial cloud services in order to meet dynamic […] More

IBM has consolidated the Blue Box private cloud-as-a-service into its global data center infrastructure that runs SoftLayer. The OpenStack-powered Blue Box Cloud, recently acquired by IBM, has been added to the OpenStack portfolio to help customers operate public cloud, IBM said Wednesday. “Today, we’ve taken a big step toward our goal of delivering private clouds to customers […] More

IBM has moved to expand its storage software offerings through the addition of new cloud backup features to the company’s portfolio. Customers will work to back up data to on-premises storage or the cloud with the new features for the IBM Spectrum Protect software, IBM said Wednesday. IBM will release the Spectrum Protect as a VersaStack service […] More

NTT Communications has introduced a fresh cloud access offering in an effort to help address challenges in cloud adoption. Multi-Cloud Connect is designed to provide access to third-party public cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services through NTT’s multiprotocol label switching network, NTT said Wednesday. A feature on NTT’s Arcstar Universal One service, […] More

QTS and Vion have partnered to jointly deliver federally-approved public and hybrid cloud service offerings in the U.S. government sector. The companies aim to help customer agencies lower total cost of ownership, increase utilization rate and accelerate deployment of cloud-based systems designed to comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Vion said Tuesday. […] More

Windstream has signed up for Hewlett-Packard’s team of managed service providers — the HP PartnerOne program — in a move to deliver cloud services to clients. Windstream will offer private cloud, backup as a service and replication as a service to small, medium and enterprise clients, Windstream said Tuesday. “Windstream’s IT as-a-Service provides our joint […] More

Microsoft has received additional federal certifications for its Azure Government cloud computing platform after evaluations of the product’s data security features for U.S. public sector organizations. Tom Keane, partner director for Microsoft Azure program management, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the platform obtained a moderate provisional authority-to-operate status under the Federal Risk and Authorization […] More