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Fugue, In-Q-Tel Form Cloud Infrastructure Security Partnership; Phillip Merrick Quoted

Intelligence community investment firm In-Q-Tel and FugueÂ have partnered in a move to help agencies secure cloud-based systems and manage policy compliance. Fugue said it will introduce its cloud infrastructure security and compliance automation technology to the IC through the strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel. Phillip Merrick, Fugue CEO, noted the company’s technology works to automate the […] More

by Monica Jackson October 25, 2018, 4:15 am
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Salesforce Helps DC Agency Migrate Non-Emergency Response System to Cloud; Casey Coleman Quoted

The Washington D.C. Office of Unified Communications has chosenÂ Salesforce to help the agency transition its system for responding nonemergency calls from a server-based platform to a cloud environment. OUC migrated its 311 system onto the Salesforce Service CloudÂ equipped with the artificial intelligence-basedÂ Einstein AnalyticsÂ tool in an effort to reduce call hold times and system downtime scenarios, […] More

by Brenda Marie Rivers October 24, 2018, 9:48 am
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USAF PEO Digital Adopts Cloud-Hosted Tools to Streamline Acquisition Document Review Processes

The U.S. Air Force‘s Program Executive Office Digital has started employing cloud-hosted software systems to allow acquisition authorities to share workflows in real time with contractors and streamline data reviewing processes. The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said Friday PEO Digital has adopted review, co-authoring and redaction tools that act like social media platforms for documents […] More

by Monica Jackson October 22, 2018, 8:04 am
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AWS Cloud Tech Supports NASA’s Machine Learning-Based Hurricane Monitoring

NASA uses anÂ Amazon Web ServicesÂ tool with a machine learning infrastructure designed to help agency personnelÂ monitor and calculate the wind speed of hurricanes. The Deep Learning-Based Hurricane Intensity Estimator works to generate and display wind flow velocity at 15-minute intervals with the use of near real-time images from GOES-16 satellite’s web mappingÂ server, according to an AWS […] More

by Peter Graham October 22, 2018, 12:17 am
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Everbridge’s Cloud-Based Critical Comms Tech Suite Gets DISA OK

Everbridge has received approval from the Defense Information Systems Agency to offer defense agencies a suite of cloud-based technology products designed to facilitate communications in the event of a critical situation. DISA granted a provisional authorization at impact level 2 to the company’s mass notification, incident communications and information alerting systems, EverbridgeÂ said Monday. The PA […] More

by Monica Jackson October 16, 2018, 6:09 am
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Survey: 83% of Federal IT Leaders Say Cloud Tech Could Support Agency Mission Delivery

Eighty-three percent of 150 federal information technology managers who responded to a MeriTalk survey believe that adopting cloud technology and updating networks would help agencies address missions over the next five years. MeriTalk said Monday the study, jointly underwritten by Riverbed Technology and Tech Data‘s government solutions business, also found thatÂ 98 percent of federal IT […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman October 16, 2018, 4:59 am
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Federal Execs Expect IT Spending to Move Toward Govâ€™t Community Clouds in Two Years; IBMâ€™s Andras Szakal Quoted

A new study underwritten by IBM has found that three in four information technology executives at federal agencies expect IT investment shifts in the next two years, FedScoop reported Monday. The survey found that 26 percent of agency program management and IT executives expect their agencies to spend on government-only community cloud platforms in the […] More

by Jane Edwards October 16, 2018, 4:40 am
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IBM Develops Open Source Platform for Cloud-Based Workload Mgmt

IBM has unveiled an open source platform designed to help organizations manage workloads and applications across multiple cloud computing systems. The company said MondayÂ its Multicloud Manager includes a dashboard where users can oversee businesses, security and governance processes through various cloud systems from different providers. The technology is designed to run on IBM’s Cloud Private […] More

by Monica Jackson October 16, 2018, 1:11 am
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Microsoft Adds InterSystemsâ€™ Unified Data Platform to Azure Cloud Marketplace

InterSystemsÂ has started to offer a unified data platform onÂ Microsoft‘sÂ Azure MarketplaceÂ to help customers build and implement cloud-based information technology applications. The IRIS Data Platform is designed to manage workloads, process transactions and analyze data, InterSystems said Friday. Microsoft created Azure Marketplace for organizations to access certified cloud-based IT products. â€œTo keep pace with continuously evolving market […] More

by Peter Graham October 15, 2018, 12:29 am
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AWS Certifies Enlighten IT Consulting as Cloud Managed Service Provider; Dave Levy Quoted

Amazon Web Services has approved a MacAulay-Brown susbidiary to provide managed services to government customers of AWS cloud technology. Prior to the approval, Enlighten IT Consulting completed a third-party assessment on its service offerings with involvement of clients who use big data and analytics platforms in GovCloud, MacB said Thursday. Enlighten works with mission partners […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman October 12, 2018, 6:40 am
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Juniper, Nutanix Extend Collaboration to Support Enterprise Migration to Multicloud Platforms

Juniper Networks and Nutanix haveÂ extended their partnership to help enterprise customers migrate information technology applications to multicloud computing platforms. Both companies will combine offerings that work to manage virtual workloads and secure enterprise cloud environments through a microsegmentation approach, Juniper said Wednesday. Bikash Koley, chief technology officer at Juniper, said the company plans to integrate […] More

by Monica Jackson October 11, 2018, 4:28 am
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CenturyLink Launches Cloud Connectivity Offering

CenturyLink has introduced an offering meant to help enterprise customers connect across hybrid cloud workloads through a portal or anÂ application program interface integration method. TheÂ Cloud Connect Dynamic Connections service is intended to linkÂ CenturyLink’s fiber network of public and private data centers and on-net enterprise facilities to multiple cloud service providers, the companyÂ said Tuesday. The communications […] More

by Brenda Marie Rivers October 10, 2018, 6:07 am