Amazon Web Services and three other vendors secured spots on the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract and Dave Levy, vice president of U.S. government, nonprofit and health care at AWS, said the company will work to deliver capabilities to support DOD and its mission through the JWCC vehicle. Levy, a four-time Wash100 […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s federal arm and five-time Wash100 winner, said the company will continue to develop cloud capabilities and strategic partnerships to meet the Department of Defense’s joint warfighting needs and allow the military to establish an enterprise-level tactical cloud environment.  He wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Microsoft’s work on […] More

Google will collaborate with Accenture‘s federal arm and Sada Systems to help the U.S. Army deploy a suite of cloud-based collaboration applications for as many as 250,000 soldiers. Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector unit, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the Army’s Workspace implementation project is one of the first collaborative efforts […] More

Cloud software provider Kion and Booz Allen Hamilton have agreed to partner to provide government customers with cloud governance and management capabilities. “This partnership combines Booz Allen’s approach to technical transformation and acceleration with Kion’s best-in-class cloud enablement platform,” Dan Tucker, senior vice president at Booz Allen and leader of the firm’s cloud and data […] More

Google has secured Impact Level 4 authorization from the Department of Defense for Google Workspace, its cloud computing software formerly known as G Suite. Google Workspace is now approved for use when handling controlled unclassified information of federal government customers to ensure secure collaboration as well as seamless operation, Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector business, wrote […] More

Debanjan Saha, president and chief operating officer of DataRobot, has been appointed to serve as CEO of the artificial intelligence-powered cloud platform developer on an acting basis. The interim chief executive will take over Dan Wright, who is stepping down more than a year after taking on the position and will continue to serve in […] More

A new study by Next Pathway has found that at least 78 percent of information technology leaders report a rise in demand for migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud as companies seek to generate revenue streams through digital transformation efforts. Next Pathway surveyed approximately 1,200 IT decision-makers and professionals in February and found that only […] More

Google’s government and education arm has named cloud and analytics executive Stephen Elliott as its head of artificial intelligence solutions. According to his LinkedIn profile, Elliott will collaborate with public sector customers in his new role to deliver cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, with a particular focus on leveraging the Palantir Foundry platform. Elliott began his […] More

Data center services provider BCS has introduced an offering meant to help government customers transition digital applications and operations to a cloud environment with the use of Google‘s platform. The veteran-owned company said Wednesday its delivery model for BCS Cloud Services is similar to the approach used to support highly regulated industries and the offering […] More

The Defense Innovation Unit issued success memos to Zscaler, Google and McAfee for their secure cloud access platform prototypes and Rick Simon, program manager for the Secure Cloud Management project at DIU, said the agency will likely choose one of the prototypes to transition into the production phase in the first quarter of fiscal year […] More

Vertosoft, the company driving emerging technology growth for the government, announced a new partnership with SpyCloud, the leader in cyber fraud prevention, to protect customers of government digital services from identity theft and other cybercrime. “SpyCloud offers powerful solutions for government agencies to continuously monitor, prevent and investigate online cyberattacks,” said Jay Colavita, founder, and president of Vertosoft.

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The Defense Innovation Unit will soon pick a contractor to provide secure cloud access platforms to facilitate collaboration between the Department of Defense and industry. DIU has been working with Zscaler, Google and McAfee on the secure cloud access management prototyping project since last year.

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