Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said advancing automation, adopting cloud platforms and simplifying the procurement process are the strategies federal agencies should implement to address the rising “technical debt” associated with maintaining legacy information technology systems. Harris wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday on Federal Times […] More

NTT Data Services has obtained a “Gold Partner” status from Axiomatics and will begin to offer the latter’s authorization management suite for applications, databases and big data to federal clients. Both companies aim to help customer agencies gain access to control software, architectural guidance and professional services necessary to implement external authorization tools, Axiomatics said Wednesday. “Secure […] More

TalaTek has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer the company’s enterprise security compliance management platform to government agencies. Enterprise Compliance Management Solution is designed to help customers manage risks and comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act, FedRAMP and other security requirements, TalaTek said Monday. ECMS works to provide real-time risk management assistance and visibility into […] More

Complete Discovery Source has obtained approval from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board to offer a service meant to help agencies manage records in cloud environments. The board granted authority to operate certification to CDS’ Federal Cloud Services offering after a rigorous security evaluation process, the said Monday. Nyi Htwe, chief technology […] More

Symantec has received certification from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer a cloud-based email security service to government agencies. Chris Townsend, vice president pf Symantec’s federal business, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday that the Symantec Email Security Service-Government offering works to help users protect messages delivered via Microsoft Office 365 and Exchange as well as Google‘s Gmail. […] More

The National Institutes of Health‘s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has awarded Paragon Micro as a prime contractor on a potential 10-year, $20 billion governmentwide acquisition vehicle for IT products and services. Paragon Micro President Jeff Reimer said in a statement published Monday the company aims to help help federal customers address complex IT challenges through the Chief […] More

Druva has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to sell its cloud-based data management platform to U.S. government agencies. The FedRAMP authority to operate confirms that the Druva inSync data management-as-a-service platform meets government cloud security standards, the company said Thursday. Druva inSync works to provide a single unified control system for the […] More

Microsoft has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer its line of intelligent business applications to U.S. government customers. James Townsend, founder and CEO of Microsoft partner company Infostrat, wrote in article published Monday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development granted a FedRAMP authority to operate at the “moderate impact level” to […] More

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has urged government agencies to implement cultural transformation efforts to obtain governance, management and technology skills required for digital modernization projects. Puvvada, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, wrote in a blog post published Thursday that federal information technology leaders should adopt tested systems, migrate services to a cloud platform […] More

Transparency is the name of the game: clear conversations with customers, industry and other stakeholders is a rock in the foundation of the ongoing effort to procure new information technology in line with promoting partnership with the private sector for innovative solutions through programs like the Presidential Innovation Fellows and other efforts employing teamwork in […] More

A business unit of International Data Corp. has ranked companies with the highest revenues from the sale of information technology products and services to federal government customers in 2017. IDC Government Insights said Wednesday its 2017 Federal IT Rankings are based on federal IT providers’ calendar year revenues for IT hardware, software and services instead of potential earnings […] More

SpringCM has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to deliver a cloud-based contract and document management platform to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization for SpringCM seeks to help agencies streamline workflows and business processes as well as meet the federal government’s security requirements, the company said Tuesday. “Manually managing documents creates […] More