Government Cloud

Learn about the latest technologies that drive the rapid adoption of cloud services by the public sector. This section focuses on offerings for public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments specifically tailored for federal agencies.

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  • AWS Hosts Cloud Environment of Navy Fleet & Family Readiness Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Hosts Cloud Environment of Navy Fleet & Family Readiness Division

    Amazon Web Services has supported the cloud migration effort of a U.S. Navy unit that aids the physical, emotional and social development of sailors and their families. AWS said Wednesday the Commander of the Navy Installations Command’s Fleet and Family Readiness Programs division (N9) adopted an unclassified cloud environment hosted on AWS’ GovCloud isolated cloud region for government […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: MGT Act, White House IT Modernization Report to Incite AI, Cloud Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: MGT Act, White House IT Modernization Report to Incite AI, Cloud Adoption

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said he expects federal agencies to advance experimentation with cloud migration and information technology upgrades driven by the passage of the Modernizing Government Technology Act and the release of the White House’s IT modernization report, FedTech Magazine reported Tuesday. Chehreh said he believes the White House […] More

  • CyrusOne Eyes Data Center Expansion in Atlanta, Georgia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Eyes Data Center Expansion in Atlanta, Georgia

    CyrusOne is looking to establish a 44-acre data center campus in Georgia’s Atlanta metro area in efforts to serve enterprise customers including hyperscale cloud providers in the region. The company said Tuesday it plans to begin construction of the facility in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville by the first quarter of 2018. The campus is designed […] More

  • AWS Opens New Cloud Region in France - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Opens New Cloud Region in France

    Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud region in France to help commercial and government customers run applications and store data within the country. AWS said Monday the AWS EU (Paris) Region represents the company’s fourth cloud region in Europe and 18th technology infrastructure region in the world. The new region includes three infrastructures called availability zones that are located in separate geographic locations […] More

  • Transcom Eyes ‘Secret’ Level Cloud Services Contract Award to AWS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transcom Eyes ‘Secret’ Level Cloud Services Contract Award to AWS

    The U.S. Transportation Command has announced its intent to award a contract to Amazon Web Services to provide commercial cloud services designed to host data classified at the “secret” level. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the proposed contract will cover storage, virtual machines, internet protocol management and network bandwidth services. The company […] More

  • Unisys Lands NARA Contract for Cloud-Based Email, Collaboration Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Lands NARA Contract for Cloud-Based Email, Collaboration Support

    Unisys has received a potential five-year, $10 million contract to deliver cloud-based collaboration and email support services to the National Archives and Records Administration. Unisys said Monday it will provide its Google G Suite Enterprise cloud-based email and collaboration platform to help approximately 5,300 NARA employees and contractors carry out record management tasks to ensure […] More

  • Rubrik Gets Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification for Cloud Data Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rubrik Gets Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification for Cloud Data Mgmt Platform

    Rubrik has secured Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ certification for a technology platform the company designed to help government customers secure data in cloud environments. The company said Wednesday its appliances met requirements during an information technology security evaluation that covered developer and independent tests, product lifecycle management and process assessment. Steve Alfieris, vice president and […] More

  • DoD Eyes Cloud Services Contract Award in Q4 FY 2018; IBM’s Sam Gordy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Eyes Cloud Services Contract Award in Q4 FY 2018; IBM’s Sam Gordy Comments

    The Defense Department plans to award a potential 10-year contract to a single vendor by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 to provide cloud computing platforms and services across the agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. DoD said in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure strategy document it plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a full […] More

  • Vencore Renews Accreditation as FedRAMP 3PAO for Cloud Tech Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Renews Accreditation as FedRAMP 3PAO for Cloud Tech Platforms

    Vencore has been verified by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation to continue serving as a third-party assessment organization for cloud-based technology platforms under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Vencore said Wednesday it secured the accreditation renewal after A2LA evaluated the company’s technical competence and compliance with FedRAMP requirements and other international standards. The Chantilly, Virginia-based government […] More

  • Pivotal, Raytheon Form Partnership to Support DoD’s Software Devt, Cloud Adoption Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pivotal, Raytheon Form Partnership to Support DoD’s Software Devt, Cloud Adoption Efforts

    Raytheon has teamed up with Pivotal Software to help the Defense Department expedite the development of new software platforms and transition legacy applications to cloud environments. Raytheon said Tuesday it has joined the San Francisco, California-based software firm’s Pivotal Ready Partner Program as part of the partnership to deliver new technology capabilities to the military. […] More

  • ViON to Support DISA Transition to Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON to Support DISA Transition to Azure Govt Cloud

    ViON has received a three-year, $1.4 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to support the agency’s transition to Microsoft‘s Azure government cloud. Herndon, Virginia-based ViON said Thursday it will deliver a capacity as-a-service platform; manage the Joint Interoperability Test Command’s public cloud migration; and test hardware in a secure environment under the contract. DISA issued the award through NASA’s Solutions […] More