QTS aims to grow its offerings for federal government and commercial enterprises to manage hybrid information technology environments through its $326 million acquisition of Carpathia that closed in June, two QTS executives have told ExecutiveBiz. Those environments present the combined company with an opportunity to shift agencies away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach for their IT […] More

SAP National Security Services — a U.S.-based subsidiary of the German software and technology conglomerate — and Virtustream have partnered to deliver standards-compliant cloud services to federal agency clients. SAP NS2 will help agencies with migrations of applications into managed and secure cloud platforms in an effort to comply with the government-wide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the companies said […] More

Cylance has been authorized as a federal cloud systems inspection body and holds the status of third-party assessment organization for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. Cylance obtained the accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory after a demonstration of the company’s technical compliance for FedRAMP, Cylance said Monday. “We are proud to have […] More

Brian Neely started his career at American Systems in 1996 for his first post-college position in industry and now holds the dual roles of chief information officer and chief technical officer at the employee-owned government services contractor. Neely oversees planning and management functions for the company’s technology and information management-related resources and has also supported acquisition initiatives there. ExecutiveBiz […] More

Amazon Web Services has started to work with the General Services Administration‘s 18F on a project to help federal mobile users access Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-approved cloud services, Fedscoop reported Thursday. Billy Mitchell writes the pilot project kicked off in May and its goal is to grant FedRAMP and trusted Internet connection certifications to cloud service […] More

The U.S. Justice Department is seeking information on small businesses that can perform a data center colocation of security server racks for the agency’s Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform. DOJ said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday it prefers a colocation facility that is located near a FedRAMP-certified AWS GovCloud site in the Seattle metropolitan […] More

Amazon Web Services will hold its sixth annual Government, Education and Nonprofits Symposium on June 25 and 26 to discuss existing applications of cloud services on public sector organizations. AWS said in the event webpage that participants will present cases on the topics of FedRAMP and trusted Internet connections, scientific discovery, DevOps, education and open data. In particular, the company noted […] More

Vernon Bailey joined SAP NS2 — the German conglomerate’s U.S. national security subsidiary — upon SAP‘s acquisition of Sybase in 2010 and now serves as the subsidiary’s vice president of sales. The 27-year information technology veteran oversees marketing and sales functions for SAP NS2’s database and technologies business and also is responsible for customer experience initiatives. In this […] More

MeriTalk has introduced three new cloud computing tools intended to help federal government customers adopt cloud services in compliance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The Gov Cloud Shopper initiative is designed for government buyers to estimate cloud cost based on data from FedRAMP-approved cloud service providers, MeriTalk said Monday. Under the GCS […] More

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 […] More

Mike Maiorana has led the public sector business for Verizon in his senior vice president role there since September 2013 and oversees the telecommunications giant’s work with agencies at all levels of government in the U.S. He is a former VP of national government sales and operations for Verizon Wireless and oversaw that business’ footprint in its Washington-Baltimore-Virginia region prior to his public […] More

Liz Heiston, national account manager at Hitachi Data Systems Federal, said that agencies using the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program should consider applying system management and automation tools to manage cloud migration efforts. In a guest piece published Thursday on Federal Times, Heiston noted that while FedRAMP covers the security of cloud services offered by vendors, agencies must […] More