Government Cloud

Intelligence community investment firm In-Q-Tel and Fugue 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

The Washington D.C. Office of Unified Communications has chosen 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 Cloud equipped with the artificial intelligence-based Einstein Analytics tool in an effort to reduce call hold times and system downtime scenarios, […] More

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

NASA uses an Amazon Web Services tool with a machine learning infrastructure designed to help agency personnel 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 mapping server, according to an AWS […] More

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, Everbridge said Monday. The PA […] More

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 that 98 percent of federal IT […] More

IBM has unveiled an open source platform designed to help organizations manage workloads and applications across multiple cloud computing systems. The company said Monday 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

InterSystems has started to offer a unified data platform on Microsoft‘s Azure Marketplace 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. “To keep pace with continuously evolving market […] More

Juniper Networks and Nutanix have 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

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