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Microsoft has released a new version of its Azure Migrate service that works to help customer agencies  determine appropriate tools for moving data centers to cloud infrastructure.

Chris Howard, vice president of U.S. public sector at Nutanix, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that federal agencies seeking to provide employees access to data and applications in a more flexible way during the COVID-19 pandemic should consider adopting desktop-as-a-service platforms.

IBM is providing citizens free tools through The Weather Channel application and website to help them track reported COVID-19 cases and gain access to news and other information related to the coronavirus pandemic using their computers and smartphones.

Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, wrote in a Nextgov article published Tuesday that there are three strategies federal agencies should implement to secure data in the public cloud and the first one calls for agency leaders to understand that cloud providers are not responsible for data protection.

Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON and a former Wash100 award winner, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that application performance, data security and cost are the key factors driving the multicloud strategy.

Forcepoint called on its strategists, researchers and engineers to identify and discuss cybersecurity trends they forecast for the coming year and one of those predictions concerns with the Cloud Smart strategy. Eric Trexler, vice president of global government at Forcepoint, shared that more organizations will transition from Cloud First to Cloud Smart in 2020 but will remain “cloud dumb” when it comes to ensuring the security of their public cloud environments.

Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that there are four features cloud managers should look for in a multicloud management tool and one is broad applicability.

Microsoft has released a white paper to guide government agencies and other public sector clients as they address common security concerns related to cloud migration.

CenturyLink has moved to expand its cloud networking service offering to support enterprise customers on Microsoft Azure and Azure Government cloud platforms.

DLT Solutions has received a license to distribute CloudCheckr software and services to Amazon Web Services consulting partners and clients in the public sector.

Microsoft and Oracle have teamed up to enable clients to migrate and operate enterprise workloads across their cloud platforms.

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Federal Times that an enterprise data cloud platform could help federal agencies address the challenges of information technology modernization.

ViON has received a seven-year contract from Utah to provide state agencies access to the company’s public cloud products and value-added services in support of their hybrid data centers.

Unisys has received a potential eight-year, $219M contract to provide a hybrid cloud platform meant to help government agencies in Georgia manage citizen services delivery efforts across the state. The contract with the Georgia Technology Authority has a base term of five years and six months and three one-year options and …

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies should come up with a multicloud strategy in order to leverage the cloud platform as an operating model, FedScoop reported Monday. Chehreh called on agencies to assess how they plan to field, operate and manage applications in a multicloud IT …