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ECS Wins Spot on US Mint Digital Enterprise Services IDIQ; George Wilson Quoted
ECS has won a spot on a potential five-year, $70M contract for digital services to help the Department of the Treasury“™s U.S. Mint agency modernize its information technology infrastructure. The U.S. Mint Digital Enterprise Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers cloud migration, data center consolidation, managed service delivery operations, software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, ECS said Thursday.
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Air Force Posts Solicitation for DevOps PaaS Platform
The U.S. Air Force's AFWERX organization seeks a platform-as-a-service offering that can help Joint Force Space Component Commander-led operations centers to process data sources for space situational awareness efforts and implement systems to aid space command-and-control mission.
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in Government Cloud, News
BGOV: IBM“™s Planned Red Hat Purchase Could Reshape Federal Cloud Market
IBM“™s planned $34B acquisition of Red Hat could have an impact on the federal cloud market and agencies“™ information technology modernization plans, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. IBM agreed in late October to pay $190 in cash for each share of Red Hat in a move to establish a global provider of hybrid cloud platforms. BGOV […] More
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ORock“™s Red Hat OpenStack-Based Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP Authorization; Paul Smith Interviewed
ORock Technologies has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its Red Hat OpenStack-based cloud platform. A Defense Department agency granted the FedRAMP authorization to operate to ORockCloud at the moderate impact level for hybrid cloud deployments and Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service models, ORock said Tuesday. “The ORockCloud brings to market the realization of […] More
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in Government Cloud, News
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
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in Government Cloud, News
DXC Unveils New Service to Facilitate Full-Stack Mgmt of SAP Platforms on AWS Cloud
DXC Technology has introduced a platform-as-a-service designed to help clients transform and move SAP platforms to Amazon Web Services“™ cloud platform. DXC PaaS for SAP solutions on AWS works to facilitate full-stack management of SAP tools on the cloud platform through operations automation and security, DXC said Monday. The new offering is a digital platform designed […] More
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in Industry News, News
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
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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
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Red Hat“™s David Egts: Federal IT Teams Play a Role in Public Cloud Security
David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat“™s public sector, has said federal information technology leaders should take responsibility in ensuring the security of their agencies“™ public cloud platforms. Egts wrote in a GCN guest post published Tuesday that agency IT professionals seeking to secure applications in software-as-a-service cloud environments should correctly establish content permissions and conduct […] More
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in Government Cloud, News
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
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Securityminders“™ George Moraetes: Risk Assessment Could Help Evaluate Cloud Providers for FedRAMP Compliance
George Moraetes, vice president, chief security officer and architect at Securityminders, has said federal agencies should take several measures to evaluate cloud service providers for compliance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and one of those is through cloud risk assessment. Moraetes wrote in a guest piece published Thursday on IBM“™s Security Intelligence that agencies […] More