The FBI is seeking potential industry sources that could provide technical support services for data centers and other information technology operations at five locations under a new contract. The bureau’s Data Center Hardware and Operating Systems Section considers using a governmentwide acquisition contract to procure IT professional engineering services to ensure that the FBI’s classified […] More
Google Cloud and SpaceX have teamed up to enable public sector agencies, companies and other organizations to deliver data, applications and cloud services to their teams that are operating at the network edge. SpaceX will establish Starlink ground stations within Google’s data centers to facilitate the delivery of data and applications to any location using Google Cloud and SpaceX’s constellation of more than 1,500 Starlink satellites as part of the partnership.
A new survey from Gartner has found that fifty-five percent of chief information officers are looking to increase the number of its full-time information technology employees throughout the year. Gartner said Wednesday that CIOs are more likely to increase the number of FTEs working on emerging technology programs.
Jim Matney of General Dynamics' information technology business said ease of use, security and cost are the reasons why the addition of VMware and Amazon Web Services offerings to the Defense Information Systems Agency's milCloud 2.0 platform could help defense agencies accelerate the migration of workloads to the cloud, GCN reported Tuesday.
Idaho National Laboratory developed a machine translation-based technology designed to detect malware that mines cryptocurrencies through compromised high-performance computing systems and is seeking to enter into a licensing agreement with a company that can bring the technology to market.
Ken Glueck, an executive vice president at Oracle, said the federal government looking to advance information technology modernization should focus on buying commercial cloud applications. “Focusing on applications also brings the additional benefit of modernizing government infrastructure. Investing in applications makes government data centers more efficient and secure as part of the package because modern cloud applications come with cloud infrastructure already included,“ he wrote.
Jim Matney, vice president and general manager for DISA and enterprise services at General Dynamics' information technology business, said the Defense Information Systems Agency saw a twofold increase in the number of workloads migrated to the milCloud 2.0 platform last year, Nextgov reported Monday.
Interested vendors have until Aug. 6 to submit comments on the Department of Homeland Security's draft solicitation for data center and cloud optimization services as part of a hybrid information technology hosting environment.
Mercury Systems has unveiled a new switch fabric module technology designed to help customers build defense-tailored data center architectures.
Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet's federal business, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that federal agencies should implement a security-driven networking strategy to speed up cloud adoption and information technology modernization.
