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CenturyLink’s Cloud Services Available to Utah Agencies Under NASPO Procurement Vehicle

CenturyLinkÂ 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 companyÂ said TuesdayÂ its software, infrastructure and platform-as-a-service offerings are available to Utah agencies as part of theÂ NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions Master Agreement. Gray Sigler, director of CenturyLink’s […] More

by Brenda Marie Rivers September 19, 2018, 8:45 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, Government Cloud, News

ViON Demos Oracle Cloud Offering at ECO18 Conference; Tom Frana Quoted

ViON presented a portfolio of Oracle as-a-Service cloud-based platforms at the 2018 East Coast Oracle user conference that kicked off Tuesday in Raleigh, N.C. ViON said Tuesday its OaaSÂ offering is designed to help organizations speed up cloud migration efforts, reduce total cost of ownership and gain access to Oracleâ€™s software and hardware platforms. Tom Frana, […] More

by Jane Edwards September 19, 2018, 1:20 am
in Government Cloud, News

Descartes Labs to Help DARPA Build Geospatial Data Repository

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

by Nichols Martin September 13, 2018, 5:53 am
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BGOV: Federal Spending on Cloud Services to Reach $6.5B in Fiscal 2018

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

by Jane Edwards September 12, 2018, 3:08 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, Government Cloud, News

IBM, Hortonworks, Red Hat Unveil Hybrid Cloud Deployment Initiative; Rob Bearden Quoted

IBM,Â HortonworksÂ and Red HatÂ have launched a new initiative designed to help users field and run big data workloads in hybrid cloud environments. The companies will leverage IBM Cloud Private for Data, Hortwonworks DataPlane, HortonWorks Data Flow and Hortonworks Data Platform with the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes-based container offering to allow users to deploy containerized workloads […] More

by Jane Edwards September 11, 2018, 11:00 am
in Government Cloud, News

ECS Offers Cloud Services Through Microsoft Partnership Program

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

by Brenda Marie Rivers September 11, 2018, 7:35 am
in Featured, General, Government Cloud, News

NIST, Consortium Launch Project to Secure Cloud Workloads; Dell EMCâ€™s Cameron Chehreh Quoted

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and a consortium of technology companies have teamed up to build a â€œtrusted cloudâ€ platform that seeks to demonstrate how credible compute pools that leverage commercial systems can offer security capabilities, MeriTalk reported Monday. â€œThese capabilities will not only provide assurance that cloud workloads are running on trusted […] More

by Jane Edwards September 11, 2018, 5:20 am
in Government Cloud, News

Nutanix to Deliver Cloud Computing Software to DoD Agency; Chris Howard Quoted

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

by Monica Jackson September 11, 2018, 4:38 am
in Government Cloud, News

AWS Public Dataset Program Publicizes Hubble Space Telescope Imagery for Scientific Research

A recently-developedÂ 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

by Monica Jackson September 7, 2018, 4:35 am
in Government Cloud, News

Report: DoD Moves Deadline for JEDI Cloud Bids to October

TheÂ Defense Department has extended the deadline of proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense InfrastructureÂ cloud procurement program to Oct. 9 after it made some changes to the solicitation, Nextgov reported Tuesday. A FedBizOpps noticeÂ 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

by Jane Edwards September 5, 2018, 5:28 am
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CenturyLink Joins AWS’ Managed Service Provider Program; David Shacochis Quoted

CenturyLink has been selected as a partner under Amazon Web Servicesâ€™ 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 companyâ€™s offerings include the Cloud Application Manager platform, which is […] More

by Monica Jackson September 4, 2018, 4:22 am
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Global Data Systems, Carahsoft Partner to Offer Cloud Services Through Multi-State Procurement Contract; Wade Berzas Quoted

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

by Monica Jackson August 31, 2018, 7:03 am