Government Cloud

Natoma Technologies Inc. has transitioned the General Services Administration’s electronic project management application to Amazon Web Services’ cloud environment. The company will work to operate and maintain the ePM system on the GovCloud platform under the five-year contract with GSA, Natoma said March 17. “We are excited to successfully achieve an authorization for ePM to […] More

General Dynamics’ information technology business has received a three-year, $1.3 million task order to develop cloud infrastructure for the federally funded Sandia National Laboratories. General Dynamics Information Technology will design the business framework, processes, service models, technical architecture and implementation plans to guide Sandia’s staff in deploying the information technology model, General Dynamics said Tuesday. […] More

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a go-signal to continue its work on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s unclassified remote hosted desktop pilot project, Defense Systems reported Thursday. Mark Pomerleau writes NGA issued the three-month extension to complete the last two phases of the URHD project after Concurrent Technologies renewed its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program […] More

Microsoft‘s government cloud offering is now available to law enforcement agencies in California after the state’s justice department established Microsoft Azure Government‘s compliance with federal data security and privacy regulations. Michael Donlan, vice president of Microsoft’s U.S. state and local government business, said Wednesday on the company website that compliance covers standards under the FBI Criminal Justice Information […] More

IBM has opened a new cloud center in Sydney, Australia as part of efforts to expand the company’s cloud services in the country amid growing demand. The SoftLayer cloud center is meant to broaden data redundancy options within Australia and the Asia Pacific region for enterprise and Web infrastructure services, IBM said Tuesday. IBM is offering […] More

Dell has launched the latest version of the Dell One Identity Cloud Access Manager featuring the company’s Security Analytics Engine, support for the OpenID Connect protocol, Microsoft certification for Office 365 interoperability and social authentication functions. The company said Monday CAM 8.0 works to enable organizations to control access to Web and mobile applications based on contextual information while facilitating […] More

Carnegie Mellon University is set to deploy an IBM cloud-based analytics platform under a facility management partnership aimed at helping the academic institution use data to manage its building systems. IBM said Thursday that CMU aims to use IBM technology to monitor systems utilization on the university’s 36-building Pittsburgh campus and save up to $2 […] More

VMware will offer a hybrid cloud platform through a U.K. government procurement vehicle meant to help the country’s public sector organizations to acquire cloud computing services. The company holds a position on the G-Cloud 6 framework contract to supply its VCloud Air products to British customer agencies, VMware said Tuesday. VCloud Air is designed to […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. has expanded its partnership with IBM to help enterprise clients accelerate development of cloud business applications with IBM’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service offering. The agreement allows CSC to offer the IBM technology to developers and customers who aim to build computing tools for on-premises, private, public or hybrid cloud environments, IBM said Monday. Steve […] More

A TBR Research survey indicates that majority of cloud customers in 2015 will switch to services that fulfill their specific requirements through on-premise, private and single-tenant platforms, InformationWeek reported Monday. Charles Babcock writes the survey, conducted in the fourth quarter of 2014, shows a growing preference toward a single-tenant service among individual end customers. TBR also predicts […] More