Government Cloud

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has secured Department of Health and Human Services authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to deploy its cloud platform for the public sector. Kevin Irland, a corporate communications manager at the company, writes Thursday that the authority to operate is for its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offering. The report said Verizon intends to leverage the […] More

Software AG has unveiled a business-process-analysis-as-a-service tool that works to provide process documentation, analysis and optimization functions via private and public cloud to help organizations address emerging business and market needs. The company said Thursday the ARIS Cloud offering is available in basic, advanced and enterprise versions via Amazon Web Services based on the scale of implementation of process improvement efforts. Wolfram […] More

Red Hat and Dell have partnered to combine Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise platform and Dell’s PowerEdge R420 server and partner services program into the integrated DevOps Solution Starter Pack offering. Red Hat said Tuesday that Vizuri and other channel partners will resell the package, which works to deliver platform-as-a-service hybrid cloud tools to developers, administrators and other customers. Joe Dickman, senior vice president of […] More

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a potential three-year, $48.6 million task order to a ManTech International subsidiary for a cloud computing infrastructure and migration services. 7Delta will deliver a cloud setup to the VA for the department to access information technology infrastructure services, ManTech said Wednesday. ManTech said 7Delta will migrate all parts […] More

A new forecast from International Data Corp. predicts public information technology cloud services spending will grow to more than $127 billion in 2018 from the $56.6 billion projected for 2014. That IT cloud spending growth represents more than 50 percent of software, server and storage spending worldwide in 2018, IDC said Monday. “Over the next four to five years, IDC expects the […] More

Siki Giunta, senior vice president for global cloud business at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company aims to be a top provider of cloud computing products and services in the international market, Fortune magazine reported Thursday. “We want to be a global player,” Giunta told the magazine. Katherine Noyes writes Giunta is responsible for helping […] More

Xerox has released an update of its Maven outbreak management software that works to host contact-tracing data on communicable diseases such as Ebola and other public health information in a cloud platform. The company said Thursday that Maven leverages data and analytics to track the path of infection or exposure to disease and facilitates data sharing and integration between public […] More

QTS Realty Trust is set to become the latest cloud service provider to reach FedRAMP Ready status with its QTS Federal Cloud infrastructure as a service solution. The company said Tuesday QTS Federal Cloud’s third-party assessment results and other documentation are now under readiness review from the FedRAMP Program Management Office. The FedRAMP Ready category […] More

NetApp has acquired Riverbed Technology‘s cloud-integrated backup product line for approximately $80 million in an effort to help clients manage data across cloud platforms. NetApp will consolidate the SteelStore product with other cloud-integrated storage offerings for customers to back up their data in private and public cloud environments, NetApp said Monday. NetApp plans to roll out the SteelStore product in the third […] More

Damian Whitham, senior director of cloud computing solutions at General Dynamics Information Technology, said research data helps the organization to align its cloud service offerings with government customers’ needs, FedPulse reported Tuesday. He told FedPulse reporter Susan Rose the firm commissioned an online survey of 150 IT professionals across multiple federal agencies to find out […] More

A new Verizon study has found that 65 percent of businesses leverage cloud computing products and services to manage their information technology infrastructure. Kevin King, corporate communications director at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said Tuesday the “State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud 2014” report indicates chief information officers and chief technology officers oversee about 62 percent […] More