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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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.
A new Nutanix survey has found that federal information technology leaders that seek to upgrade and secure government data infrastructure prefer hybrid cloud platforms to public cloud models. Nutanix said Tuesday it commissioned Market Connections to poll 150 IT decision makers across civilian, defense and intelligence agencies and found that only 39 percent of them […] More
Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said he believes the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program should continue to streamline and play a role as government agencies work to advance their digital modernization efforts. “The goal is to get to a point where a vendor holding one [authority to operate] can go […] More
Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said he believes agencies can manage the surplus of data from internet-of-things devices through cloud computing technology. He told MeriTalk in an interview published Thursday agencies should find approaches to mitigate IoT’s potential security threats to federal workforce and missions. “Fully utilizing cloud-based networks is the key to […] More
Sera-Brynn has been accredited as an independent third party assessment organization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The 3PAO certification authorizes Sera-Brynn to evaluate cloud service providers’ compliance with FedRAMP requirements, the cybersecurity audit and advisory firm said Tuesday. Heather Engel, Sera-Brynn chief strategy officer, said the 3PAO designation will help the company expand its service […] More
Onapsis and the Cloud Security Alliance have formed a new working group to oversee the development of best practices designed to help organizations securely move Oracle, SAP and other enterprise resource planning applications to the cloud. CSA and Onapsis said Thursday they will work with chief information security officers from Deloitte, IBM and other technology […] More
SAP National Security Services has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a set of cloud-based human capital management platforms to federal agencies. The SAP NS2 Secure Node with SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite – DoD is a set of software-as-a-service-based talent management, learning management, workforce analytics and talent acquisition tools, the company said […] More
FireEye has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based email security service offering to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization seeks to facilitate the adoption of FireEye Government Email Threat Prevention by federal agencies to protect against email-based attacks as they move to cloud environments, the company said Tuesday. FireEye […] More
Yogesh Khanna, chief technology officer of CSRA, has predicted that federal government agencies will continue to maintain both cloud and legacy information technology systems even as they work to accelerate adoption of cloud technology, FedScoop reported Monday. Khanna said in a conference call Monday he observed agency IT leaders continue to face cloud migration challenges such as […] More
The Commerce Department has issued a request for information to gather input on Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified cloud service providers and vendors that can support the migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud. The department said in a FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday it envisions a potential contractor to migrate and manage applications to a FedRAMP-approved […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has posted a request for information on large U.S.-based infrastructure-as-a-service providers that can help develop technologies to host sensitive workloads on public cloud. IARPA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that it seeks to create a classified-as-a-service platform that will support the secure processing of classified government data on […] More
Engility has joined a nonprofit consortium that aims to develop and promote strategies to secure cloud computing infrastructure in organizations. The company said Wednesday it plans to leverage the Cloud ASCEND platform and cyber and modernization experience to support the Cloud Security Alliance’s mission. Cloud ASCEND comprises commercial cloud tools and a proprietary methodology intended to help an […] More
Avtex has joined Microsoft‘s Cloud Solutions Provider program to market and support hosted Azure services for public sector customers. Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Provider program for Azure Government offers an opportunity for member companies to help government clients address mission requirements with the cloud computing platform, Avtex said Monday. Tom Keene, general manager for Microsoft Azure, said the CSP program […] More
