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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.
A new Harvard Business Review report found that many companies have increased their business agility by using cloud computing technology, Verizon‘s Kevin King wrote in a Friday blog post. One-third of respondents to the Verizon-funded poll said cloud-based systems work to simplify internal functions and almost 40 percent said the technology helps bolster data security, […] More
Global Knowledge has delivered learning services to help IBM’s business partners acquire skills around SoftLayer cloud services. Global Knowledge will provide training services on the fundamentals of SoftLayer technology through a two-day course of lectures and hands-on sessions, Global Knowledge said Thursday. “Through this program, our partners are gaining the skills they need to build […] More
Unisys will collaborate with IBM and Deloitte Consulting to consolidate seven data centers of Pennsylvania into a hybrid cloud platform under a seven-year, $681 million contract, eWeek reported Thursday. Jeffrey Burt writes Pennsylvania’s state agencies will have access to support services hosted in Unisys’ data centers for their infrastructures, storage, security and database services. Unisys […] More
Unisys will provide the state of Pennsylvania with an on-demand, cloud-based computing environment that will work to unify seven data centers under a seven-year, $681 million contract. The company said Monday the contract covers managed hosting services, self-provisioning and capacity on demand for computing resources based on business needs, technical services and project, contract and facilities management. IBM and Deloitte […] More
Verizon has partnered with Renfinity to offer Terremark enterprise cloud products with Renfinity’s Secure Grid service in a combined package in order to help businesses, utilities and federal agencies secure their cloud infrastructures. The companies said Sunday that they aim to help users adopt both infrastructure-as-a-service software-as-a-service platforms. “With Verizon we can deliver a much more robust security […] More
Hewlett-Packard Co. has unveiled a new cloud encryption tool for customers to protect sensitive data, Infotech Lead reported Thursday. HP designed the Atalla cloud encryption system to secure data residing in the cloud and on enterprise premises such as emails, payment data and electronic health records, according to the report. Financial institutions, retailers, energy firms, […] More
Verizon Enterprise Solutions has released the findings of a study to evaluate the potential relationship between cloud computing usage and how businesses have marked up their agility and competitiveness. Harvard Business Review conducted a survey of 527 HBR readers from large and mid-size organizations worldwide in order to find out the views of businesses and government organizations […] More
Anne Altman, general manager for IBM‘s U.S. federal business, suggests that a blend of public and private cloud elements could offer government agencies more control and better security, Nextgov reported Monday. She writes that the hybrid model is gaining traction in the federal market as agencies migrate their information technology functions to the cloud. “It […] More
Genesys today announced that the Business Edition on the Genesys Customer Experience Platform was selected by Red Hat to help transform customer experience in the cloud while striving to provide reliability and high-performance hybrid cloud technologies to customers worldwide. Red Hat chose the platform on their capability to offer a fully-integrated cloud-based customer experience, evaluated […] More
Teresa Carlson, global public sector vice president at Amazon Web Services, has said the company is working to better communicate the value of cloud services to non-commercial organizations, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that Carlson spoke Wednesday at the annual AWS conference that drew executives from the government and nonprofit sectors to […] More
BMC Software has introduced an information technology management offering to the Amazon Web Services ecosystem in an effort to comply with the U.S. government’s cloud policy. The Agriculture Department funded the launch of BMC Remedy OnDemand on AWS in order for the tool to meet the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program requirements, BMC said Monday. BMC […] More
DataDirect Networks has built on its offerings in managing parallel file system data by making its WOS-Bridge platform available for DDN Lustre and GPFS domains. DDN said that the introduction of the WOS-Bridge integration with DDN’s parallel file systems aims to help users manage, distribute and retain their data from the cloud to various data centers […] More
