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Nutanix Opens Partnership-Based Laboratory for Government Cloud Projects

Nutanix has launched its own laboratory that combines the company’s cloud platform and Cyxtera’s rapid connectivity, colocation and intelligent automation capabilities to offer a collaborative space for federal government projects pursued by the company’s industry partners. The company said Tuesday it partnered with Intel and other industry entities to establish the Nutanix Federal Innovation Lab, […] More

by Nichols Martin August 18, 2021, 11:43 am
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Splunk’s Teresa Carlson on New Model for Government Cloud Contracts

Teresa Carlson, chief growth officer of Splunk and a six-time Wash100 awardee, said federal government customers are transitioning towards services-based cloud contracts that are managed by commercial data centers, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. “You look at the new models, governments are not always paying for what they are building [to establish cloud services]. […] More

by Jane Edwards June 30, 2021, 12:01 pm
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FBI Seeks Info on Potential Technical Support Providers for Data Centers
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SpaceX, Google Cloud Form Starlink Connectivity Partnership; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted

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.

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by Jane Edwards May 14, 2021, 4:53 am
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Westat, Stanford & Metadata Technology North America Release Coronavirus Attitudes and Behaviors Survey Data

Westat and Stanford University School of Medicine have released data from the Coronavirus Attitudes and Behaviors Survey on the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on Americans. The dataset is now available through a Westat partnership with Metadata Technology North America. Lawmakers, researchers and the general public can use it to help the U.S. recover from the pandemic. The survey was performed in May of 2020.

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by Noah Chelednik April 16, 2021, 10:10 am
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Gartner Survey: 55% of CIOs Eye Full-Time Workforce Expansion for Security Operations, Analytics

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.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers April 1, 2021, 5:29 am
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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.

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by Jane Edwards March 24, 2021, 6:10 am
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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.

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by Jane Edwards February 26, 2021, 4:07 am
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Oracle’s Ken Glueck: Buying Commercial Cloud Applications Key to Advancing Federal IT Modernization
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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.

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by Jane Edwards February 23, 2021, 3:51 am
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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.

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by Jane Edwards January 14, 2021, 5:11 am
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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.

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by Nichols Martin July 14, 2020, 10:24 am