Anna Forrester
The Defense Information Systems Agency has given provisional authorization to 23 commercial cloud service offerings for the hosting of Defense Department data at Impact Level 2, which covers noncontrolled unclassified information.
DISA said Monday the offerings comply with the moderate baseline of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).
“The granting of these provisional authorizations is an important step in our strategy to drive cost down by moving more of our mission data to the cloud,” said Terry Halvorsen, DoD chief information officer.
Cloud services that received DoD PAs include:
- AINS eCase
- Akamai Content Delivery Services
- Amazon Redshift
- AT&T Storage as a Service
- Autonomic Resources Cloud Platform
- Clear Government Solutions FedGRID Government Community Cloud
- Concurrent Technologies Unclassified Remote Hosted Desktop
- Economic Systems Federal Human Resources Navigator
- Edge Hosting CloudPlus – Managed Cloud for Secure Windows and Linux Application Hosting
- IBM SmartCloud for Government
- MicroPact Product Suite
- Microsoft Office 365 Multi-Tenant & Supporting Services Including Azure Active Directory
- Microsoft Windows Azure Public Cloud Solution
- OMB MAX General Support Services
- OMB MAX.gov Shared Services
- Oracle Federal Managed Cloud Services
- Oracle Service Cloud
- Salesforce Government Cloud
- SecureKey Briidge.net ExchangeT for Connect.Gov
- US Treasury Workplace.gov Community Cloud
- USDA National Information Technology Center
- Verizon Enterprise Cloud Federal Edition
Veris Group, a FedRAMP third-party assessment provider, evaluated nine of those services.
