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 m... Read more
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 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 info... Read more
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 cl... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
Red Hat and NVIDIA have agreed to advance the use of open-source platforms to support artificial intelligence, data science and deep learning workloads in enterprise data centers. Red Hat sa... Read more
A new study underwritten by IBM has found that three in four information technology executives at federal agencies expect IT investment shifts in the next two years, FedScoop reported Monday... Read more
The Defense Department has launched a second round of comment period for industry to submit questions about DoD’s revised request for proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructur... Read more
Science Applications International Corp. has signed a multiyear lease deal with CyrusOne to move one of its data centers to the latter’s data center location in Northern Virginia by the firs... Read more
Unisys has received a potential six-year, $242.4M contract to provide storage, server and data center services to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. VITA said Wednesday it selecte... Read more
QTS Realty Trust has finished the first-phase construction of a new facility in Ashburn, Va., in 10 months to meet the increasing demand for hyperscale data center and hybrid colocation prod... Read more
Accenture‘s federal services business will build a data repository for the Library of Congress under a potential three-year, $27.3 million contract. Elaine Beeman, senior managing dire... Read more
Equinix has wrapped up the integration of Verizon’s Terremark Federal Group subsidiary into its government solutions business. Equinix said Tuesday it expects TFG to broaden its contract veh... 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... Read more