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BAE, Flexera Partner to Help Gov’t Clients Adopt Cloud Tech; Peder Jungck Quoted

BAE Systems has partnered with Flexera to offer a hybrid cloud environment for U.S. government customers that aim to update their information technology operations and software licenses. The partnership intends to incorporate Flexeraâ€™s data analytics and management platforms into a federated cloud system that BAE and Dell EMCÂ jointlyÂ unveiledÂ in April,Â BAEÂ said Monday. Peder Jungck, vice president and […] More

by Monica Jackson August 14, 2018, 5:00 am
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Microsoft Launches Hybrid Cloud Offering for Azure Government

Microsoft has made its Azure Stack hybrid cloud offering available to Azure GovernmentÂ cloud platform users. Natalia Mackevicius, program director for Azure Stack, wrote in a blog entryÂ posted Monday the Azure Stack for Azure Government offering seeks to help government clients comply with data requirements by providing them access to the same set of DevOps tools, […] More

by Jane Edwards August 14, 2018, 12:32 am
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Unisys’ Mark Forman: Employee Skills Can Help Drive Government IT Transformation

Mark Forman, global public sector head at Unisys, has said government agencies should hone employees’ information technology skills to carry outÂ IT modernization efforts. He wrote in a Nextgov opinion piece published Monday that IT professionals can serve as potential agents of change as agencies increasingly move toward â€œserver-lessâ€ and â€œcloud nativeâ€ computing systems. Instead of […] More

by Peter Graham August 14, 2018, 12:10 am
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VA Seeks Contractor for Mobile Application Cloud Migration System

The Department of Veterans Affairs has started seeking a contractor that can migrate VA mobile applications and their associated services into an operational cloud system. A FedBizzOps notice posted Wednesday says the contractor will be required to transfer 20 to 30 mobile responsive web applications to the VA Mobile Application Cloud Migration system, which will […] More

by Monica Jackson August 9, 2018, 8:03 am
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AWS’ Jennifer Chronis: Cloud Tech Can Help DoD Harness Potential of Machine Learning, AI

Jennifer Chronis, general manager for the Defense Department market at Amazon Web Services, told Government Matters in an interview aired Friday she believes DoD organizations can harness the possible advantages of machine learning and artificial intelligence tools in a cloud computing environment. She said that AWS’ technology is designed to manage workload at different classification […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman August 9, 2018, 5:25 am
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Cubic, Delerrok Form Cloud Transit Mgmt Service Partnership; Bradley Feldmann Comments

Cubic‘s transportation systems business will collaborate with Delerrok to offer cloud-based electronic ticketing systems to transit agencies under an investment and alliance agreement. The partnership seeks to integrate Delerrokâ€™s TouchPass electronic fare collection technology with Cubicâ€™s Transit Management as a Service platform in an effort to help operators simplify the ticketing process through a pay-as-you-go […] More

by Brenda Marie Rivers August 8, 2018, 6:17 am
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AT&T, RapidDeploy Partner on Cloud-Based Emergency Response Comms Offering

AT&T and RapidDeploy have partnered to offer a cloud-based technology platform forÂ public-safety answering points obtain information in real time in the event of a critical situation. The partnership seeks to connect PSAPs to RapidDeploy’s computer-aided dispatch platform through a virtual private network in an effort to help dispatchers receive data from multiple connected devices […] More

by Peter Graham August 7, 2018, 7:36 am
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DLT Certified to Distribute Red Hat Products on AWS GovCloud

DLT Solutions has signed an agreement to distributeÂ Red Hat‘s enterprise-grade products in Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud marketplaceÂ for government organizations and regulated industries. DLT said ThursdayÂ it has collaborated with Red Hat over the past four years in effortsÂ to help customer agencies adopt cloud technology and will offer the latter’s technologies via DLT managed services for the […] More

by Brenda Marie Rivers August 3, 2018, 2:49 am
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Marine Corps Seeks Data Storage, Analytics Platform

The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a request for white papers for a cloud-based data storage and analytics platform, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. In the first phase of the effort, the service will use the prototype to assess data collected from Deployable Mission Support Systems.Â The Marine Corps will then develop more data analytics models, expand […] More

by Monica Jackson July 27, 2018, 10:39 am
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NIH, Google Partner for Biomedical Cloud Computing Initiative

TheÂ National Institutes of HealthÂ has partnered with GoogleÂ in an effort toÂ help researchers leverage commercial cloud technology platforms to manage biomedical data sets. NIHÂ said TuesdayÂ researchers at the agency and more than 2,500 academic institutions nationwide will have access to Google CloudÂ computing, machine learning and storage systems through theÂ Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation and SustainabilityÂ program. […] More

by Peter Graham July 25, 2018, 6:52 am
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DISA Eyes Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Architecture Implementation

The Defense Information Systems Agency seeks information on potential industry sources of cloud implementation services forÂ aÂ Defense DepartmentÂ cybersecurity program. DISA said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice it wants to determine the availability and technical capacity of companies to provide cloud infrastructure-as-a-service support toÂ theÂ AcropolisÂ program. AcropolisÂ works to protect, consolidate and integrate defensive cyber operations data from the DoD […] More

by Nichols Martin July 18, 2018, 2:54 am
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Microsoft to Launch Chat-Based Workspace for US Government Cloud Users

Microsoft is scheduled to roll out on July 17 aÂ chat-based workspace designed to help government cloudÂ users communicate, collaborate, manage tools and access files. Chantal De Menezes, a seniorÂ product marketing manager atÂ Microsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted June 28Â thatÂ US Government Cloud Community customers will have access to theÂ Microsoft TeamsÂ hub by the end of August. The […] More

by Nichols Martin July 12, 2018, 10:25 am