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  • Fugue Wins Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award; Phillip Merrick Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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 problem as it happens. “As […] More

  • Knight Point's Cloud IaaS Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Coast Guard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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 view, manage and secure workloads […] More

  • State Department Kicks Off Cloud Services Market Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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 Management Program. The bureau currently […] More

  • IBM's IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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 provisioning services intended to help […] More

  • DLA Seeks Info on Financial Mgmt Program Hosting Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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 Defense Agencies Initiative ERP system […] More

  • Thales: Federal Agencies Saw 20% Rise in Data Breaches; Nick Jovanovic Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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 a breach, Thales said Thursday. […] More

  • FBI Releases Cloud Computing Service RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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 government’s “Cloud First” policy. The […] More

  • Oracle to Launch 12 Data Centers in Cloud Footprint Expansion Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    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. Other data center locations will […] More

  • Logicalis US to Help Migrate Client Workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Logicalis US to Help Migrate Client Workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud

    Logicalis US has expanded its cloud-first infrastructure-as-a-service capacities to help enterprise clients migrate workloads to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Microsoft asked partners such as Logicalis to guide customers on the development of strategic roadmaps to the cloud and assist information technology professionals on the acquisition of relevant hardware and software that can help meet business […] More

  • CSRA Adds Microsoft Azure Platform to GSA Schedule; George Batsakis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Adds Microsoft Azure Platform to GSA Schedule; George Batsakis Comments

    CSRA has begun to offer Microsoft‘s suite of Azure cloud computing products and services via the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. Azure is now listed under the 132-40 special item number for cloud service offerings under the government-wide acquisition contract, CSRA said Tuesday. George Batsakis, CSRA executive vice president for growth, said the company is […] More

  • IARPA Seeks Info on Large Infrastructure-as-a-Service Providers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Seeks Info on Large Infrastructure-as-a-Service Providers

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has posted a request for information on large U.S.-based infrastructure-as-a-service providers that can help develop technologies to host sensitive workloads on public cloud. IARPA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that it seeks to create a classified-as-a-service platform that will support the secure processing of classified government data on […] More

  • DOE Lab Adopts Red Hat's Cloud Platform to Aid Research Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Lab Adopts Red Hat’s Cloud Platform to Aid Research Efforts

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Red Hat‘s cloud platform within the laboratory’s compute and data infrastructure to support scientific and computational research projects at ORNL. Red Hat said Monday ORNL uses the company’s OpenStack Platform to provide cloud services in its Compute And Data Environment for Science infrastructure, which is designed to deliver computing, data analytics, […] More