Carahsoft Technology has agreed to offer Opus Interactive’s suite of hybrid and multicloud platforms and services to public sector customers through the former’s Cloud Purchasing Program. "Opus Interactive’s focus on compliance with FedRAMP and the latest regulatory mandates makes them a great addition to our cloud solutions portfolio under CPP,” said John Lee, vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft.
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Steven Spano, regional vice president for the public sector business at Tableau, told ZDNet in an interview published Sunday that when it comes to data analysis, public sector customers want a variety of options and the freedom to explore and interact with data.
Read More »Splunk’s Bill Wright: Federal Employees Need Access to Reskilling, Training Opportunities Amid Data Surge
Bill Wright, director of federal government affairs at Splunk, wrote in a Federal Times article posted Monday that agencies should provide employees with training and reskilling opportunities to prepare them for rising data volumes.
Read More »Wendi Whitmore: IBM Report Finds Link Between Security Automation, Breach Cost Reduction
Wendi Whitmore, vice president of a team working on threat intelligence and incident response at IBM, said the company’s Cost of a Data Breach report shows a connection between the adoption of security automation and orchestration practices and reduced data breach costs, Nextgov reported Thursday.
Read More »IBM’s Dan Chenok: NIST Frameworks, Guidance Could Help Agencies Manage Cyber Risks
Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on FCW that frameworks and other resources from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide government agencies a “strong road map” towards improving their cybersecurity posture.
Read More »WWT’s David Watts: Data-Driven Culture Key to Advancing Federal Digital Transformation
David Watts, chief digital adviser for the public sector at World Wide Technology, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that government agencies should implement a data-driven culture and leverage data analytics to accelerate their digital transformation efforts.
Read More »AWS’ Teresa Carlson: Agencies Speed Up Move to Cloud During COVID-19 Pandemic
Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted government agencies to accelerate their migration to the cloud to meet telework requirements and increased mission demands, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday.
Read More »Buchanan & Edwards Gets USAF Data Governance Training Support BPA; Eric Olson Quoted
Buchanan & Edwards will provide data governance training and certification support services for the U.S. Air Force’s data professionals under a blanket purchase agreement.
Read More »SolarWinds Report: Untrained Insiders Considered as Main Source of Security Threats Within Public Sector
A new SolarWinds report shows that 52 percent of information technology security professionals from public sector organizations say they consider untrained and careless insiders as the top threat to their agencies.
Read More »Arrow Electronics, immixGroup Offer IT Products in SLED Market via Cooperative Purchasing Program
ImmixGroup and its parent company, Arrow Electronics, can now offer a range of information technology products to state, local and education customers through a contract vehicle managed by a public sector-focused cooperative purchasing organization.
Read More »International Gov’t Execs Discuss Cloud-First Policies, IT Modernization at AWS re:Invent
More than 300 government officials from 40 countries joined the three-day Amazon Web Services Government Delegation Program at re:Invent in Las Vegas to discuss the barriers to digital transformation and ways to address such challenges.
Read More »Steampunk Joins MuleSoft’s Tech Partner Program to Further Support Gov’t Clients
Digital design services provider Steampunk has joined a MuleSoft program that seeks to help customers build application programming interfaces and integrations.
Read More »Deloitte: Public Sector Early Adopters Consider AI Vital to Organizational Success
A new Deloitte survey found that approximately 74 percent of early adopters of artificial intelligence in the public sector believe AI will be “critically” or “very” important to the success of their organizations in the next couple of years.
Read More »Joe Quaglia: Tech Data Seeks to Get Public Sector Market Share Through DLT Deal
Joe Quaglia, president of the Americas at Tech Data (Nasdaq: TECD), told GCN in an interview published Thursday the company’s proposed acquisition of software and cloud technology aggregator DLT Solutions provides an opportunity for Tech Data to capture a share of the federal public sector market.
Read More »Tenable’s Jamie Brown: Public-Private Partnerships Key to Grid Security
Jamie Brown, director of global government affairs at Tenable, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that public-private partnerships could help improve coordination to ensure the security of the electric grid.
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