Government Cloud

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

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

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

VMware and Amazon Web Services have unveiled a hybrid cloud service designed to help government agencies accelerate migration of applications to the cloud and securely manage workloads through a common infrastructure. VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) runs on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud bare-metal infrastructure and is equipped with VMware’s Cloud Foundation software-defined data […] More

Carahsoft Technology has received a public sector solution provider designation from Amazon Web Services and agreed to offer a hybrid cloud service from an AWS-VMware partnership to government agencies. The VMware Cloud on AWS offering is designed to help customers run information technology applications on a vSphere-based cloud environment, Carahsoft said Wednesday. Carahsoft President Craig Abod, a 2018 Wash100 […] More

Amazon Web Services has designated CACI International as a “premier” consulting partner under the AWS partner network. The designation reflects the Arlington, Va.-based contractor’s expertise to support government clients in cloud infrastructure, application migration and cloud-based DevSecOps, the company said Wednesday. CACI has helped clients secure information technology platforms at different data classification levels as the cloud company’s public sector partner and authorized […] More

Amazon Web Services has expanded its web-based center that works to help public sector entities find and procure multiple cloud service offerings. AWS said Tuesday the Public Sector Contract Center contains a database of contract vehicles through which the company’s partners offer services to federal, state, local, education and international government organizations. The platform offers information about the General Services […] More

Unisys has introduced a suite of managed services designed to help organizations speed up the migration of applications, data and other workloads to the Amazon Web Services-built public cloud platform. Unisys’ CloudForte subscription-based managed services work to provide users access to cloud-native service offerings and contract invoicing capabilities that comply with federal mandates, the company […] More

Leidos has earned the highest designation in Amazon Web Services‘ partner network for investing in cloud and technical services to support government and enterprise clients. The Premier Consulting Partner designation came two months after the Reston, Va.-based company received AWS Managed Service Provider status to help clients help design, build, migrate, operate and update cloud environments, Leidos said Wednesday. John […] More

A&T Systems plans to debut its new cloud migration and storage service at Amazon Web Services‘ 2018 World Wide Public Sector Summit, which will run from Wednesday to Thursday in Washington D.C. The company said Monday it will serve as an exhibitor and sponsor for the event at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where it […] More

ECS has established a center of excellence to help government and commercial customers orchestrate cloud computing initiatives and manage the life cycle of cloud adoption strategies. The company said Monday its Cloud CoE will provide clients access to multiple technology platforms from Amazon Web Services, IBM, Microsoft and Google. John Sankovich, vice president of cloud solutions at ECS, said the company seeks to help […] More

Several cloud service industry experts and Amazon Web Services’ customers and partners recently took part in a podcast on digital transformation, as well as how the cloud contributes to such phenomenon. AWS said Friday Adelaide O’Brien, research director of IDC Government Digital Transformation Strategies, believes a change in leadership and culture in different business aspects […] More