BlackMesh’s platform-as-a-service cloud offering has received a Federal Risk Authorization Management Program certification. BlackMesh’s SecureCloud PaaS product is based on Red Hat-built OpenShift cloud platform, BlackMesh said Tuesday. Red Hat’s OpenShift works to help developers build, run, manage and deploy cloud services and other applications. “Achieving FedRAMP certification for SecureCloud …
Read More »Pete Sandlin, Mario Suarez Named to Director Roles at HumanTouch; Moe Jafari Comments
IT services contractor HumanTouch has hired Pete Sandlin of the U.S. Marine Corps and Mario Suarez of HP Enterprise Services for director roles at the company. HumanTouch said Thursday it appointed Pete Sandlin, formerly deputy program manager at Marine Corps Systems Command, director of strategic services and product solutions. Mario Suarez, a former senior program manager at …
Read More »CSC Obtains FedRAMP Certification for PaaS Cloud Offering; Red Hat’s Paul Smith Comments
Computer Sciences Corp. has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for the company’s ARCWRX cloud computing technology. CSC said Tuesday this is the second FedRAMP certification for the platform-as-a-service ARCWRX, which is based on Red Hat’s OpenShift and resides on CSC’s ARC-P platform. Paul Smith, general manager and vice president …
Read More »Nextgov: Autonomic Resources’ Open Source PaaS Gets FedRAMP Approval
Autonomic Resources has been certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its ARCWRX open source platform-as-a-service cloud offering to the federal government, Nextgov reported Friday. Frank Konkel writes that ARCWRX is the first PaaS offering to achieve FedRAMP compliance. John Keese, director of government cloud solutions for Computer Sciences Corp., told Nextgov some …
Read More »Deltek’s Alex Rossino: IBM Led FY 2011-2015 Federal Cloud Contract Awards
Established vendors continue to dominate the federal market for cloud platforms amid competition with commercial newcomers, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, cited IBM as the leading federal cloud vendor based on the value of awarded contracts from fiscal year 2011 …
Read More »CenturyLink Adds Pivotal PaaS to Cloud Marketplace; Dave Shacochis Comments
CenturyLink has begun to offer its customers Pivotal’s platform-as-a-service environment via CenturyLink’s cloud marketplace, Talking Cloud reported Friday. Dave Shacochis, vice president of cloud platform for CenturyLink, said the company intends for the Pivotal cloud foundry to expand the developer community’s access to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, Mike Vizard reports. Shacochis …
Read More »Oracle: 64% of Global Employees Consider Their Corporate Orgs ‘Agile’
Oracle has released a new study that says 64 percent of employees at large global companies think their organizations are agile in their approach to new business opportunities. Oracle said Thursday it polled 2,263 employees for the Oracle Cloud Agility study and found that at least 80 percent of respondents said the ability …
Read More »IBM, Sogeti Form Hybrid Cloud Partnership; Steve Robinson Comments
IBM and Sogeti have forged an alliance to provide developers access to IBM’s cloud platform-as-a-service in an effort to help them analyze data. Sogeti will use IBM’s Bluemix tool to develop hybrid cloud applications across public, private and on-premise infrastructure, IBM said Thursday. Steve Robinson, general manager of IBM cloud …
Read More »SAP NS2’s Carmen Krueger, Hunter Downey Talk Cloud Considerations for Nat’l Security Agencies
SAP National Security Services is working with the U.S. government to utilize big data and cloud computing technologies to support national security operations, two company executives said in an article published Wednesday on GovCloud. SAP NS2’s Carmen Krueger, senior vice president and general manager of cloud operations, and Hunter Downey, cloud solutions director, …
Read More »Dell Runs Digital Business Services on Pivotal Cloud Foundry; Raman Sapra Comments
Dell has expanded its digital business services on Pivotal’s cloud foundry in a move to help public and private sector customers deploy applications on Pivotal’s platform-as-a-service. Clients will work to migrate, develop and integrate applications on the Pivotal cloud foundry in collaboration with Dell, Dell said Tuesday. Raman Sapra, executive director and …
Read More »IBM Launches New Services on Bluemix Cloud Development Platform
IBM has added its own services to its Bluemix cloud development tool to help developers to quickly build, manage and deploy cloud applications for Internet of Things, mobile and supply chain environments. The Bluemix API Management service could help facilitate sharing and implementation of large-scale application programming interfaces, while the …
Read More »SAP HANA Cloud Platform Mobile Services to Support App Dev’t to Deployment
SAP has unveiled a SAP HANA Cloud Platform offering that provides enterprise mobile services through mobile application development, staging and deployment support. The company said Monday the platform-as-a-service product also facilitates connectivity between devices, people and networks through the Internet of Things. “It’s critical for our broad ecosystem of customers and partners to simplify their mobile …
Read More »Transparency Market Research: Global PaaS Market Worth $8B by 2020
A new Transparency Market Research report predicts that the global platform-as-a-service market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 25.7 percent through 2020 to reach a market value of $7.98 billion. The firm said Tuesday that the growth is due to companies adopting PaaS to lower capital expenses while allowing increased operational expenses. It added that …
Read More »Research and Markets: Global Platform-as-a-Service Market to Reach $8B by 2020
A new Research and Markets report predicts that the global platform-as-a-service market will grow to $7.98 billion by 2020. The figure represents a 25.7 percent compound annual growth rate, up from a market size of $1.60 billion in 2013, Research and Markets said Monday. The market research firm attributes the …
Read More »Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud
Red Hat and Dell have partnered to combine Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise platform and Dell’s PowerEdge R420 server and partner services program into the integrated DevOps Solution Starter Pack offering. Red Hat said Tuesday that Vizuri and other channel partners will resell the package, which works to deliver platform-as-a-service hybrid cloud tools to developers, administrators and other customers. Joe …
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