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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Learn about the latest technologies that drive the rapid adoption of cloud services by the public sector. This section focuses on offerings for public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments specifically tailored for federal agencies.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is requesting information about potential providers of a software-as-a-service platform designed for contact center operations. IRS said Aug. 10 in a FedBizOpps notice that it seeks a vendor who can deliver SaaS that complies with the agency’s information technology security and data privacy policies. The agency also wants to know […] More
CorasCloud has made its application development tool available on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region to help U.S. government clients design, build and implement cloud computing apps. The AppDev tool is also designed to help organizations transfer apps to an infrastructure-as-a-service provider without having to reconfigure them, CorasCloud said Tuesday. “Our goal is to provide every option […] More
Information technology staff at health organizations should craft risk management policies and adopt security measures to secure medical data in a private cloud platform, two chief technologists at Lockheed Martin wrote in a GCN article published Wednesday. Mahesh Kalva and Andrew Underhill said health care IT personnel must carry out certain measures such as penetration auditing, firewall […] More
Ray Harris, chief information officer at Iron Bow Technologies, has said that most corporate CIOs focus on the operational aspect when purchasing and managing information technology systems in an effort to leverage the Internet of Things. Harris advised CIOs to conduct pilot testing of IoT-based projects to determine their capabilities before they launch large-scale programs, Iron Bow’s TechSource […] More
Oracle has introduced new cloud-based retail science and retail analytics services in an effort to help retailers extract insights from data. Retail organizations will be able to allocate product sale in multiple stores and oversee the way products are displayed, marketed and priced, Oracle said Wednesday. “Oracle retail science cloud services and retail insights cloud […] More
A new report from International Data Corp. projects the global market for public cloud platforms to reach $70 billion this year as commercial enterprises in different industries look for services to manage their operations. The company said Tuesday banking, process and discrete manufacturing, retail and professional services are among the industries to represent nearly half of the […] More
SAP National Security Services — a U.S.-based subsidiary of the German software and technology conglomerate — and Virtustream have partnered to deliver standards-compliant cloud services to federal agency clients. SAP NS2 will help agencies with migrations of applications into managed and secure cloud platforms in an effort to comply with the government-wide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the companies said […] More
Cylance has been authorized as a federal cloud systems inspection body and holds the status of third-party assessment organization for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. Cylance obtained the accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory after a demonstration of the company’s technical compliance for FedRAMP, Cylance said Monday. “We are proud to have […] More
Razorsight CEO Charlie Thomas believes communications service providers have an opportunity to position themselves as key players in the cloud market by utilizing insight and infrastructure to meet user needs. Thomas told VanillaPlus magazine that CSPs can leverage cloud app-driven data and predictive analytics to gain knowledge on cloud user needs and behaviors. “I think CSPs are […] More
Hewlett-Packard will offer CenturyLink’s set of information technology platforms and services to its commercial clients as part of an agreement with the latter company. The HP PartnerOne for Service Provider Program deal allows HP clients to choose, purchase and use CenturyLink’s big data, managed hosting, cloud, storage and colocation offerings to help manage cloud-based data infrastructure, CenturyLink said Thursday. […] More
Infosys has begun to offer the company’s suite of software services on Verizon Enterprise‘s cloud offerings in a software-as-a-service model. Financial clients in the U.S. will have access to Infosys’ Finacle suite via Verizon Cloud, Verizon said Thursday. Infosys has deployed Finacle Core Banking, Finacle e-Banking and Finacle Mobile Banking on Verizon’s managed cloud infrastructure. […] More
IBM has integrated Nvidia’s dual graphics processing unit boards with its cloud-based SoftLayer bare metal servers in an effort to help companies manage analytics and big data workloads in a cloud environment. IBM said Wednesday customers will now be able to use Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators on its IBM Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform to handle […] More
