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  • Microsoft Secures Air Force Network Enterprise Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Secures Air Force Network Enterprise Support Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Microsoft a four-year, $44.7 million contract to provide proactive and reactive services in support of the military service’s network enterprise. USAF aims to increase the operational efficiency, performance and uptime of AFNet with Microsoft Premier Support, the Defense Department said Thursday. Microsoft will perform contract work at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, Ramstein […] More

  • Cubic Subsidiary, Microsoft Partner for Global Smart City Tech Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subsidiary, Microsoft Partner for Global Smart City Tech Initiative

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business supports a Microsoft-led global campaign to help government agencies, businesses and citizens build “vibrant” communities with technology. The CityNext program aims to combine technologies and other systems in efforts to connect the public sector, industry and people through services intended to facilitate development of sustainable environment for communities, Cubic said Thursday. “Cubic and Microsoft have […] More

  • Bitnami to Include Code Dx App Vulnerability Correlation & Mgmt Tool on Microsoft's Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bitnami to Include Code Dx App Vulnerability Correlation & Mgmt Tool on Microsoft’s Azure Govt Cloud

    Bitnami has selected Code Dx‘s application vulnerability correlation and management tool as one of the first applications to be added on Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud marketplace. Code Dx said Wednesday government organizations can deploy the application vulnerability correlation and management system via Bitnami for evaluations, product installations and future updates. “Government organizations are looking for applications that […] More

  • FedRAMP Board OKs 5 Microsoft Offerings to Join Azure Govt Cloud's Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board OKs 5 Microsoft Offerings to Join Azure Govt Cloud’s Provisional Authorization

    Microsoft has added five offerings to Azure Government Cloud‘s provisional authorization-to-operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board approved the company’s move to add Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple and Backup to Azure Government’s P-ATO at the “High Impact Level,” Microsoft said Tuesday. There are now 18 Azure Government offerings that […] More

  • Brazil Eyes Microsoft Product Buy for IT Standardization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brazil Eyes Microsoft Product Buy for IT Standardization Efforts

    Brazil’s government plans to commence a large procurement of Microsoft products in the next few months in a push to standardize the country’s information technology applications portfolio across government, ZDnet reported Tuesday. Angelica Mari writes that products most likely to be purchased include Windows 10, Windows Server and the Office suite. The report noted that the joint Microsoft […] More

  • FireEye Offers Cybersecurity Platform Through Microsoft Threat Protection Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Offers Cybersecurity Platform Through Microsoft Threat Protection Service

    FireEye has begun to offer its threat intelligence platform through a Microsoft service intended to help enterprise customers detect, investigate and respond to attacks against their networks. Customers subscribed to Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service can access FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence‘s Indicators of Compromise and WDATP can alert customers when these indicators are found on their computers or networks, FireEye […] More

  • RSA Adds Intell Tools to Cyber Threat Detection Platform Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RSA Adds Intell Tools to Cyber Threat Detection Platform Suite

    Dell Technologies‘ network security business RSA has introduced updates to a set of platforms designed to help organizations facilitate detection and response to cyber threats. The RSA NetWitness Suite features new tools called “Hunter Packs” that work to provide intelligence data to help organizations detect known and unknown network vulnerabilities, the company said Wednesday. The Hunter Packs […] More

  • Curt Kolcun: Microsoft Seeks to Facilitate Govt Cloud Adoption Through New Services, Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curt Kolcun: Microsoft Seeks to Facilitate Govt Cloud Adoption Through New Services, Programs

    Microsoft has introduced new programs and services that seek to help government agencies adopt cloud platforms. Curt Kolcun, vice president of the U.S. public sector at Microsoft, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the company has made the Azure Government Marketplace and the Operations Management Suite portal available to Azure Government cloud users. The OMS portal works […] More

  • Microsoft Introduces Support Tool for Azure Govt Users in DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Introduces Support Tool for Azure Govt Users in DoD

    Microsoft has released the Azure Blueprint tool for Defense Department clients in an effort to help Azure Government users at the agency attain authorizations to operate. Nate Johnson, a senior project manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Monday the Azure Blueprint has expanded in a push to aid DoD customers that utilize the Azure Government cloud platform […] More

  • Microsoft Signs ViON as Azure Govt Cloud Managed Service Provider; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Signs ViON as Azure Govt Cloud Managed Service Provider; Tom Frana Comments

    Microsoft has signed up ViON as the newest managed service provider of the former’s cloud computing system for government agencies. ViON said Tuesday it can offer hybrid cloud platforms along with services intended to help customer agencies monitor and manage information technology systems as a Microsoft Azure Government MSP. Tom Frana, ViON CEO, noted that the company seeks […] More

  • Microsoft to Add Riverbed App Performance Mgmt Tools on Azure Govt Cloud; Davis Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Add Riverbed App Performance Mgmt Tools on Azure Govt Cloud; Davis Johnson Comments

    Microsoft and Riverbed Technology have partnered to offer government customers access to application performance management tools designed to support information technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Riverbed said Tuesday its SteelHead CX can now be purchased via Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud marketplace while Riverbed’s SteelCentral AppInternals platform will be available to agencies in the first quarter of 2017. “Federal agencies are seeking technology solutions that help […] More

  • Veritas Unveils Cloud-Based Archiving, eDiscovery Platforms for Govt Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veritas Unveils Cloud-Based Archiving, eDiscovery Platforms for Govt Sector

    Veritas Technologies has released two new cloud-based technology offerings designed for data archiving and electronic discovery operations. Veritas said Tuesday it partnered with bluesource and ProjectHosts to make Veritas’  Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator platforms available to government agencies through a software-as-a-service level cloud environment certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator work to help users manage their […] More