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The Treasury Department is seeking a contractor to host its main website and some others in a cloud infrastructure, Nextgov reports. Amazon’s EC2 cloud service currently hosts Treasury.gov and other Treasury websites, as well as the Energy Department’s websites, according to the report. The company received a potential two-year contract …

Agencies in charge of national security and emergency preparedness programs should move mission-critical systems to cloud computing infrastructures, a White House advisory panel says, according to Fierce Government IT. In its report, the White House’s national security telecommunications advisory committee also said the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program should include more …

CenturyLink subsidiary Savvis will open five new data centers and expand two others by October, CenturyLink announced Tuesday. According to CenturyLink, the moves correlate with global demand for enterprise cloud, managed hosting, network and colocation services. Savvis currently operates more than 50 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. …

Army Gen. Keith Alexander, National Security Agency director, believes the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Pilot Program should migrate to cloud computing, Nextgov reports. According to Aliya Sternstein’s report, retired military officials also support information sharing in a cloud-based environment. Internet service providers joined the program in May because the Pentagon …

The General Services Administration will begin approving security certification applications from private cloud solutions providers, the agency announced Wednesday. Federal agencies will assess security of cloud products and services through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. GSA said the program is intended to eliminate duplication, generate savings …

DLT Solutions and Eucalyptus Systems have teamed to provide a solution that government agencies will use to assemble on-premise cloud computing platforms, the companies announced tuesday. Users will deploy private and hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service platforms while utilizing existing information technology infrastructure. Federal agencies are looking for solutions to consolidate their data …

A British health charity has selected Hewlett-Packard to provide its cloud technology to 300 facilities, the company announced Tuesday. HP Converged Infrastructure will provide a centralized infrastructure-as-a-services platform to Nuffield Health and the company expects 300,000 users to access the cloud. Nuffield Health operates 31 private hospitals, 65 fitness and …

Hewlett-Packard is expanding its cloud management services to address infrastructure, applications and information for customers on cloud offerings. The company said the new additions to its Converged Cloud portfolio will help create hybrid clouds, cloud print solutions and manage applications. Earlier this year, HP Enterprise Services announced it is expanding …

The General Services Administration is taking applications from cloud service providers for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, according to a June 4 FedBizOpps post. Commercial and government providers may start applying for FedRAMP security assessment process once application form is available via FedRAMP website on June 6, 2012. …

IBM announced Monday it has released a new line of Big Data storage and technical computing systems. Part of its Smarter Computing effort, the new IBM systems were designed to target enterprise clients in the services and financing industry. The new line of IBM products include: Systems Storage DS3500 Tape …

Microsoft has released a new multi-tenant community cloud for government customers, the company announced Wednesday. Office 365 for Government stores U.S. government data in an isolated cloud, said Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president of the company’s Office division. Koenigsbauer said it provides productivity and collaboration services with Exchange Online, Lync …

GCE announced Monday its big data and analytics cloud service will support the General Services Administration’s website for tracking federal spending, the company announced Monday. USASpending.gov was established as an online depository for federal spending information including grants, contracts, direct loans, and payments. The Reston, Va.-based company helped GSA relaunch …

The Los Angeles Community College District has chosen Microsoft to provide cloud-based online communication and collaboration services to the district, Information Week reports. Microsoft will deploy its [email protected] online suite to more than 250,000 faculty and student members in that district, Paul McDougall writes.  The agreement is the result of …

Terremark is expanding its cloud capacity across North America by deploying a node at its Denver data center, the Verizon subsidiary announced Tuesday. The subsidiary has 50 data centers around the world that have colocation and cloud technology. Agencies and other enterprises evaluate reliability of physical infrastructure, connectivity and data …

KnowledgeCG and SRA International Inc. are approved to perform independent security reviews of cloud products and services in the federal government. The General Services Administration announced the companies will perform the reviews under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. KCG CEO Dusty Wince said in a company announcement that …