Applied Insight has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to work with other cloud computing platforms and support network visibility while complying with customer-defined requirements and regulations.
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 »Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: DoD Should Embrace Satcom as a Service, Advance ‘Commercial First’ Approach
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Inmarsat Government has said the Department of Defense should make a few steps in order to emerge as a better satellite communications customer and one is eliminating the one-size-fits-all approach to satcom acquisition.
Read More »DHS Eyes Managed Service Approach for IT, End User Support
The Department of Homeland Security is examining the feasibility of transitioning the current information technology support model for DHS Headquarters to a managed service approach.
Read More »Inmarsat Government’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Managed Satcom Service Supports Connectivity, User Experience & Security
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said a managed service model for satellite communications can offer advantages for defense agencies in the areas of connectivity, user experience and information security.
Read More »Inmarsat Government’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Commercial Satcom Service Misconceptions
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said many government customers still have false perceptions about the use of satellite communications as a commercially managed service.
Read More »Unisys Launches Analytics-Based Managed Service for Cyber Risk Assessment; Jonathan Goldberger Comments
Unisys has unveiled at the Black Hat USA 2018 conference a subscription-based managed service that works to leverage analytics to help security professionals assess an organization’s cybersecurity posture and evaluate cyber threats in financial terms. TrustCheck is built to perform cyber risk assessments through Secure Systems Innovation Corp.’s patented X-Analytics …
Read More »Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Advance Data Analytics Via Collaboration, Network Creation
Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco, has said government agencies should establish an information technology network that will work to help them analyze and derive insights from large data workloads as a result of the adoption of internet-connected devices. Gongaware wrote in a FedTech article …
Read More »Siemens Unveils Cloud-Based Digital Grid Services Platform Offering; Mike Carlson Comments
Siemens has launched a new digital grid services offering the company designed to help utility sector customers in the U.S. access digital operational environments through cloud and managed service systems. The digital grid services platform offering comprises subscription-based software as a service grid management applications, managed services and cloud-hosted environments …
Read More »Verizon Lands Spot on Virginia’s $150M Network, Comms Support Contract
Verizon’s enterprise solutions business has won a spot on a potential 10-year, $150 million contract to provide network and communication platforms and related services to Virginia. The multiple-award contract awarded by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency has a five-year base period and five option years, Verizon said Wednesday. Maggie Hallbach, vice …
Read More »Randy James: CSRA Eyes Managed Cyber Framework Adoption by Federal Clients
Randy James, line of service executive at CSRA, has said the company plans to introduce its in-house managed cybersecurity framework to federal government customers in an effort to help them protect their networks from cyber threats, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. James Bach writes CSRA’s cybersecurity model involves the …
Read More »NeoSystems to Offer Industry Resources for GSA’s Consolidated Professional Services Acquisition Program
NeoSystems has introduced a managed service offering intended to help vendors transition to a U.S. General Services Administration-run consolidated professional services contract schedule that took effect Thursday. GSA and NeoSystems also partnered to hold a webinar series for professional services companies to understand how the new consolidated schedule works, NeoSystems …
Read More »CenturyLink to Help Texas Agency Implement Cloud-Based VoIP System; Kenny Wyatt Comments
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has awarded CenturyLink a contract to migrate the agency’s analog phone systems to a cloud-hosted voice over Internet protocol infrastructure. CenturyLink said Monday it will help implement and operate the VoIP service with the company’s Managed Enterprise: Hosted Collaboration Solution. Kenny Wyatt, senior …
Read More »CSC Adds VMware vCloud Air to Agility Platform; Eric Pulier Comments
CSC has integrated a new delivery and capability option into its hybrid cloud solution to address specific demands for additional public cloud and managed services. The company’s Hybrid Cloud Services with VMware vCloud Air offers basic enterprise-grade capabilities that come with flexible computing and storage capacity, CSC said Monday. Customer-driven …
Read More »Samuel Visner: CSC to Run App Security Testing Service in Secure Data Centers
Computer Sciences Corp. has rolled out a hosted service intended to help organizations test and protect system applications throughout the software development lifecycle. CSC’s AppSEC on Demand offering is designed to minimize app security risks as well as comply with government and industry data protection standards, CSC said Wednesday. The …
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