Government Cloud

CenturyLink can now offer cloud computing platforms and managed services to Utah’s public sector organizations via multistate cooperative procurement vehicle managed by the National Association of State Procurement Officials. The company said Tuesday its software, infrastructure and platform-as-a-service offerings are available to Utah agencies as part of the NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions Master Agreement. Gray Sigler, director of CenturyLink’s […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Descartes Labs to build a technology platform designed to store geospatial imagery and machine learning tools for data analysis. Descartes Labs said Wednesday it will provide the cloud-based infrastructure for the agency to create  applications as part of the Geospatial Cloud Analytics program and offer the apps to data scientists via a […] More

Federal contract obligations on cloud services are expected to rise by approximately 32 percent to $6.5B in fiscal 2018, up from $4.9B in the previous fiscal year, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. BGOV estimates the Defense Department to record approximately $2B in fiscal 2018 cloud services spending and civilian agencies to spend $4.4B on such contracts […] More

Microsoft has designated Fairfax, Va.-based technology and engineering company ECS as a direct partner under a program that offers multiple cloud services to the public and private sectors. ECS said Monday it offers Azure, Office 365, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Dynamics 365 and Visual Studio offerings across global markets, regions and a cloud platform designed for U.S. government customers. The company […] More

Nutanix has secured a contract worth over $20M with a Defense Department agency for a software capable of operating 15 remote sites running two different networks. The defense agency will leverage the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to support specialized hardware in remote sites, as well as process and transmit vast amounts of data to a […] More

A recently-developed Amazon Web Services data storage program has helped researchers and the general public access and process images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in the past 28 years. The Space Telescope Science Institute archived and publicized Hubble observation data through the AWS Public Dataset program, which supports the development of alternatives that can process […] More

The Defense Department has extended the deadline of proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program to Oct. 9 after it made some changes to the solicitation, Nextgov reported Tuesday. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the revised request for proposals includes the updated contract security classification; performance work statement/statement of objectives crosswalk matrix; and price […] More

CenturyLink has been selected as a partner under Amazon Web Services’ Managed Service Provider program. The MSP partner status will allow the Monroe, La.-based firm to deliver cloud products and services that contain access to AWS resources to its customers, CenturyLink said Friday. The telecommunications company’s offerings include the Cloud Application Manager platform, which is […] More

Global Data Systems and Carahsoft Technology have partnered to offer cloud services to federal, state and local government agencies and academic organizations in 15 states through the NASPO ValuePoint procurement program. GDS said Thursday its managed cloud services will help agencies modernize aging legacy systems, leverage big data and deploy enterprise mobility networks, among other […] More