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ORockâ€™s Red Hat OpenStack-Based Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP Authorization; Paul Smith Interviewed

ORock Technologies has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management ProgramÂ certification for its Red Hat OpenStack-based cloud platform. A Defense Department agency granted the FedRAMP authorization to operate to ORockCloud at the moderate impact level for hybrid cloud deployments and Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service models, ORock said Tuesday. “The ORockCloud brings to market the realization of […] More

by Jane Edwards July 12, 2018, 8:27 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, Government Cloud, News

Survey: 80% of DoD IT Leaders Call for Improved Cloud Adoption to Maintain Military Edge

A new MeriTalk report has found that 80 percent of information technology leaders at the Defense Department said their agency needs to ramp up cloud adoption to execute their missions and keep up the militaryâ€™s technical edge. MeriTalk said TuesdayÂ the â€œInnovation Imperative: The Drive to Modernize DoD” report underwritten by Red Hat and Amazon Web […] More

by Jane Edwards July 12, 2018, 2:45 am
in Government Cloud, News

John Walsh: SAIC Joins VMwareâ€™s Certified Partner Architecture Program

Science Applications International Corp.Â has received design certification under aÂ VMwareÂ partnershipÂ program for software-defined data center technology. SAIC said Tuesday it deployed an “active-active” configuration of its SDDC architecture using VMwareâ€™s automated deployment toolkit. John Walsh III, senior vice president and general manager of SAICâ€™s information technology solutions market segment, said the partnership seeks to help customers address […] More

by Monica Jackson July 11, 2018, 8:50 am
in Government Cloud, News

ViON-Nutanix Team Displays HCI-Based Cloud at ESRI Conference; Tom Frana Comments

ViON and Nutanix teamed up to present a hyperconverged infrastructure-based platform at the five-day ESRI User Conference that kicked off in San Diego on Monday. ViON said Tuesday the HCI-based Enterprise Cloud platform from Nutanix is backed by ViONâ€™s data center-as-a-service financial model and is designed to help users of geographic information systems manage image […] More

by Jane Edwards July 11, 2018, 3:08 am
in Government Cloud, News

Carahsoft, Qualys Expand Partnership to Offer Agencies Cloud Security Platform; Craig Abod Comments

Carahsoft has agreed to marketÂ Qualys‘ cloud-based security platform to federal, state and local government agencies under an extended partnership agreement between the two companies. The Qualys Gov PlatformÂ is certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management ProgramÂ and designed to secure information technology environments, CarahsoftÂ said Monday. Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft and aÂ four-time Wash100 awardee, said […] More

by Monica Jackson July 10, 2018, 7:22 am
in Government Cloud, News

Interior Dept. Issues FedRAMP ATO to Esri’s Cloud-Based Spatial Analytics Platform

Esri has received authority-to-operate certification from the Interior DepartmentÂ to provide cloud-based spatial analytics support to U.S. federal clients. The company said MondayÂ itsÂ ArcGIS Online service offering obtained ATO under theÂ Federal Risk and Authorization Management ProgramÂ for availability on theÂ FedRAMP Marketplace and deployment in Amazon Web Services‘ and Microsoft‘s cloudÂ environments. Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri, said […] More

by Joanna Crews July 10, 2018, 6:36 am
in Government Cloud, News

Air Force Deploys Contracting IT Platform on Appian

The U.S. Air Force has fielded its Contracting-Information Technology system on Appianâ€™s cloud platform that has impact level 4 certification to host controlled unclassified data. The CON-IT system on Appian Cloud is designed to replace the service branchâ€™s seven legacy contract writing tools in order to facilitate the acquisition process, reduce costs and speed up […] More

by Jane Edwards June 29, 2018, 7:30 am
in Government Cloud, News

Knight Point’s Cloud IaaS Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Coast Guard

The U.S. Coast Guard has granted Knight Point Systems an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer the company’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform to government organizations. Reston, Va.-based Knight Point received ATO certification on May 22 for the CloudSeedÂ IaaS offering designed to help federal clients view, manage and secure workloads […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman June 29, 2018, 7:10 am
in Government Cloud, News

Cloud Computing Degree, Hybrid Cloud Service Among Highlights at AWS Public Sector Summit

Amazon Web Services kicked off its two-day Public Sector Summit on June 20 in Washington, D.C., and Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector,Â welcomed approximately 9,000 attendees to the event. One of the highlights of the summit is the launch of a cloud computing degree by Northern Virginia Community College in partnership with […] More

by Jane Edwards June 28, 2018, 11:13 am
in Government Cloud, News

Report: Tech Firms Form Coalition to Counter DoDâ€™s JEDI Cloud Single-Award Contract Plan

A coalition of technology companies has begun efforts to counter the Defense Departmentâ€™s plan to pursue a single-award contract for theÂ Joint Enterprise Defense InfrastructureÂ cloud procurement program, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Sources told the publication the coalition includes Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, Red Hat, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, SAPâ€™s U.S. arm and General Dynamicsâ€™ CSRA unit. […] More

by Jane Edwards June 28, 2018, 4:55 am
in Government Cloud, News

Eric Shander: Red Hat Eyes Back-End Support in DoD Cloud Procurement Contract

Eric Shander, an executive vice president and chief financial officer of Red Hat, has said the company is in talks withÂ Defense Department officials regarding the company’s back-end cloud software and service offerings, News ObserverÂ reported Tuesday. DoD reportedly intends to award aÂ $10 billionÂ Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract that may potentially go to a major cloud service […] More

by Nichols Martin June 27, 2018, 11:02 am
in Government Cloud, News

AWS Introduces New Apps to GovCloud; Teresa Carlson Comments

Amazon Web Services has unveiled new applications on the GovCloud platform that works to host sensitive workloads and data in compliance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and other security regulations, GCN reported Friday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS, introduced at the AWS Public Sector Summit those services […] More

by Jane Edwards June 25, 2018, 4:07 am