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.
Read More »GDIT's Jim Matney: VMware, AWS Offerings on milCloud 2.0 Could Help DOD Agencies Speed Up Cloud Migration
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.
Read More »Idaho National Lab Seeks to License Detection Tech for Cryptocurrency Mining Malware
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.
Read More »Oracle’s Ken Glueck: Buying Commercial Cloud Applications Key to Advancing Federal IT Modernization
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.
Read More »GDIT's Jim Matney: Workloads Migrated to DISA's milCloud 2.0 Doubled in 2020
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.
Read More »Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Michael Coene on Three Data Management Measures Agencies Should Consider
Michael Coene, chief cloud architect at Hitachi Vantara Federal, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Federal News Network that there are three steps agencies should consider to accelerate digital transformation and data management efforts and one is enabling current operations and planning for future changes. “Strategic architectural design should optimize data management practices for the known, and to the extent possible, the unknown,“ he said.
Read More »DHS Seeks Industry Comments on Data Center, Cloud Optimization Initiative
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.
Read More »Mercury Systems Offers New Tech for Enhanced Data Center Performance
Mercury Systems has unveiled a new switch fabric module technology designed to help customers build defense-tailored data center architectures.
Read More »Fortinet’s Bob Fortna: Security-Driven Networking Strategy Could Help Accelerate Federal Cloud Adoption
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.
Read More »Equinix's David Peed on Four Steps to Advance Federal Data Center Optimization
David Peed, vice president and general manager at Equinix, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that there are four steps federal agencies can implement to accelerate their data center modernization efforts and the first step is building network hubs and optimizing network infrastructures.
Read More »ViON to Offer Cloud Platforms to Utah Agencies Under NASPO Agreement; Tom Frana Quoted
ViON has received a seven-year contract from Utah to provide state agencies access to the company's public cloud products and value-added services in support of their hybrid data centers.
Read More »Microsoft Launches Two New Azure Government Secret Regions
Microsoft has unveiled two new data center regions of the Azure Government Secret cloud platform designed to host secret-level classified workloads and ensure access to mission-critical information.
Read More »Bernie Guerry: General Dynamics IT Consolidates Facilities, Adopts New Operating Model Since CSRA Purchase
Bernie Guerry, chief operating officer of General Dynamics' information technology business, said GDIT has consolidated over 50 facilities as well as data centers since the parent company closed its approximately $9.7B purchase of CSRA in April 2018, Inside Defense reported Friday. GDIT implemented a centralized operating framework for contracts, security, finance, human resources and other functions to "take advantage of scale and be able to move resources, scale resources when and where needed," he told reporters Thursday.
Read More »Dell EMC, GSA Reach Governmentwide Procurement Deal for Virtual Computing Environment Platforms
The General Services Administration and Dell EMC have reached a governmentwide enterprise agreement to facilitate the procurement of the company's virtual computing environment platforms to help federal agencies advance data center modernization. The agreement allows federal, local, state and tribal government agencies to place an order for Dell EMC's VxRail products at tiered discounts through Carahsoft Technology's spot on GSA's IT Schedule 70 contract, the agency said Thursday.
Read More »Federal Acquisition Service Solicits Comments on DEOS Cloud Computing Project
The General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service seeks industry feedback on a potential $8B cloud computing project that aims to unify networks and data centers across the Defense Department. The request for information solicits public comment on enterprise hardware, software licenses, and deployment and sustainment services covered in the first …
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