The Professional Services Council has found that the use of shared information technology services by federal agencies has jumped 2 percent each year since 2017, FedScoop reported Monday.
Read More »ORock Launches Cloud-Based Storage Offering
ORock Technologies has introduced an object and block storage designed to help customers manage data in a cloud computing environment.
Read More »Tom Keane: Microsoft Azure Gov’t Secret Gets New Certifications
Microsoft has attained a new Department of Defense provisional authorization for a government-tailored platform designed to secure classified information.
Read More »ViON’s Rob Davies: IaaS Could Help Agencies Transition to Modern, Cloud-Centric Architecture
Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON and a previous Wash100 award winner, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that adopting an infrastructure-as-a-service model could help federal agencies upgrade to a flexible and secure infrastructure and meet modernization requirements.
Read More »Microsoft Wins $10B DoD JEDI Cloud Contract; Dana Deasy Quoted
The Department of Defense has selected Microsoft for the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract.
Read More »ViON Unveils Online Marketplace for Dell EMC IaaS Offerings; Tom Frana Quoted
ViON has introduced an online platform built to help customers compare and procure a range of Dell EMC’s information technology infrastructure-as-a-service offerings.
Read More »TeamingPro Unveils Contractor Teammate Discovery Tool
TeamingPro has introduced automated technology platform built to help contracting firms identify potential industry partners in pursuit of federal contracts.
Read More »Fugue Wins Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award; Phillip Merrick Quoted
Fugue has received a Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award in the infrastructure-as-a-service category. The company said Wednesday it was given the award as recognition for its products that readily determine the existence of anomalous content in a cloud infrastructure, like a policy violation, an unauthorized transaction or a misconfiguration, and address the …
Read More »Knight Point’s Cloud IaaS Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Coast Guard
The U.S. Coast Guard has granted Knight Point Systems an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer the company’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform to government organizations. Reston, Va.-based Knight Point received ATO certification on May 22 for the CloudSeed IaaS offering designed to help federal clients …
Read More »State Department Kicks Off Cloud Services Market Research
The Department of State‘s information resource management bureau is conducting market research into infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service offerings as part of a cloud migration project. DOS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday IRM aims to migrate its information technology applications and services to cloud platforms authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization …
Read More »IBM’s IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization
IBM has received provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host impact level 5 data of Defense Department and federal agency customers through a multitenant cloud computing platform. DISA said Tuesday it granted a 12-month PA to the company’s SmartCloud for Government infrastructure-as-a-service platform. SCG encompasses compute, memory, network, operating system and storage …
Read More »DLA Seeks Info on Financial Mgmt Program Hosting Systems
The Defense Logistics Agency has posted a request for information on commercial hosting platforms that can support an enterprise resource planning program designed to facilitate financial management functions across the Defense Department. DLA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that it will consider cloud-based hosting solutions that could aid the migration of the …
Read More »Thales: Federal Agencies Saw 20% Rise in Data Breaches; Nick Jovanovic Comments
A new report by Thales says 57 percent of U.S. federal government respondents claimed their agencies experienced a data breach over the past year. The figure in the “2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition” shows a 23-percent increase from the 2017 report, which revealed that 34 percent of respondents encountered …
Read More »FBI Releases Cloud Computing Service RFI
The FBI has issued a request for information on potential vendors of cloud-based infrastructure as-a-service, platform as-a-service and software as-a-service offerings. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the bureau plans to acquire PaaS and SaaS platforms from a cloud service provider with a large-scale commercial offering in an effort to comply with the …
Read More »Oracle to Launch 12 Data Centers in Cloud Footprint Expansion Push
Oracle has announced plans to open 12 new data centers across Asia, Europe and the Americas region in a push to expand the geographic reach of the technology firm’s cloud services. The company said Monday it will establish two facilities in the U.S. to serve Defense Department customers and another two in Canada. …
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