Tag Archives: cloud migration

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 16, 2020 — The U.S. Air Force awarded Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) a potential 57-month, $727M contract to transfer mission applications at USAF and the Army to a cloud computing environment, GovCon Wire reported Friday.

Greg Fletcher, director of business development and capture at Juniper Networks’ federal civilian business, has said updating information technology networks can help agencies address common provisions outlined in federal cloud computing mandates.

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of Cloudera’s government solutions business, wrote in a blog post published Monday that federal agencies need a standalone data strategy to ensure security and maintain control over data.

Accelera Solutions has secured a potential three-year, $40.4M contract to help the U.S. Army's Civilian Human Resources Agency implement, manage and sustain a cloud computing infrastructure.

Unisys has collaborated with Microsoft to integrate the former’s Stealth cybersecurity suite with an Azure-based application program interface to support enterprise information technology and cloud migration activities.

The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has deployed an Amazon Web Services architecture to accelerate the migration of applications and data to the cloud.

CenturyLink has introduced new features on its VMware-based private cloud platform as well as an integrated cloud offering created with the latter and Amazon Web Services.

Customs and Border Protection is seeking a contractor that can help the Department of Homeland Security implement biometrics technology to update its traveler vetting systems, Nextgov reported Friday.

George Kamis, chief technology officer for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has said that agencies should avoid relying on cloud providers to protect crucial data as it migrates to a hybrid cloud architecture.

Sandeep Shilawat, executive director for cloud and DevOps at ManTech International, told attendees at the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Cloud and Infrastructure Summit that the “zero trust” concept is key to full-scale cloud adoption.

An Amazon Web Services blog post published Wednesday examines how the Washington-based Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has facilitated the development of an image similarity platform for national security missions through cloud adoption.

Sami Begg, sales engineering manager for U.S. federal at Cisco’s AppDynamics subsidiary, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on FCW that there are six steps federal agencies can implement as they migrate their applications and workloads to the cloud and the first one is application mapping.

Amazon Web Services has recognized BAE Systems as a Premier Consulting Partner to certify the latter’s deployment of AWS tools to develop, migrate and manage workloads for public and private sector clients.

Amazon Web Services has designated BAE Systems as a DevOps Competency Consulting Partner for the latter’s deployment of AWS tools to support organizations’ cloud migration activities.

Virtustream, a business unit of Dell Technologies, has expanded a set of professional and managed service offerings intended to help enterprise customers migrate information technology applications to cloud computing infrastructure. The xStreamCare suite is part of Virtustream’s suite of offerings made to help users plan, manage and conduct cloud migration activities, the company said Friday.