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Commvault has received the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s High Authority to Operate designation for its software as a service-delivered data protection services. The New Jersey-based company said Wednesday the certification was specifically awarded to its Commvault Cloud for Government offerings, signifying the capability to securely manage highly sensitive information within cloud environments. Commvault Cloud features continuous […] More

Google Public Sector has secured High authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for over 100 additional Google Cloud services and capabilities designed to support various federal mission use cases. Leigh Palmer, vice president of technology, strategy and delivery at Google Public Sector, said in a blog post published Thursday that the FedRAMP-authorized […] More

Casepoint has secured an “In Process” designation at the high impact level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based legal hold software. The designation will enable Casepoint to pursue FedRAMP certification, allowing its legal hold and eDiscovery platform to accommodate sensitive unclassified data used by law enforcement, emergency services, finance, health […] More

Cohesity has obtained the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s Moderate Authority to Operate designation for its software as a service offering designed to simplify data management and data security. In a statement Tuesday, David Kushner, vice president of federal sales at Cohesity, said, “Achieving FedRAMP authorization enables federal agencies and other organizations that require FedRAMP […] More

The General Services Administration has released a draft solicitation for the first pool of the potential eight-year Ascend blanket purchase agreement to meet the U.S. federal government’s needs for cloud services and related information technology professional services. The Ascend BPA is divided into three pools and Pool 1 focuses on infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud offerings, […] More

Databricks has secured authority to operate at the high level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its cloud-based data analytics tools to government customers. The authorization verifies that Databricks on AWS GovCloud complies with FedRAMP High baseline and other regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, Databricks said Tuesday. “As […] More

According to Nutanix‘s sixth annual global Public Sector Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research report, 85 percent of respondents from the public sector say their organizations have embraced cloud-smart IT deployment strategies. Even so, the ECI survey reveals that only 8 percent of global public sector organizations have reported actually using hybrid multi-cloud, Nutanix said […] More

BeyondTrust has secured a moderate authority to operate certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a cloud-based platform designed to provide remote support and privileged remote access for protection against advanced cyberattacks. The company said Monday the Secure Remote Access service is now available to federal clients on the FedRAMP marketplace along with other approved cloud service offerings.

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Oracle’s government cloud offering has received authorization to host the Department of Defense’s secret classified workloads. With the Defense Information Systems Agency Impact Level 6 accreditation, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is now available to defense customers at all classification levels in support of their missions, the company said Monday.

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Rancher Government Solutions has entered into a strategic alliance and reseller agreement with the defense solutions division of Curtiss-Wright with the aim of bringing Kubernetes and container management technologies to the tactical edge. The two companies said Wednesday that under the partnership, the Harvester hyper-converged infrastructure and the Rancher Multi Cluster Manager will be hosted on PacStar 400-Series tactical communications products.

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Trellix has achieved authorization to deliver its cybersecurity offering to Google Cloud's customers as part of the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program's Build Engagement Model category. Under the partnership program, Trellix will offer its Helix threat detection and response platform and Email Security tool to protect Google Workplace-based emails against phishing, ransomware and attachment-based attacks, the company said Tuesday.

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