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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.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has asked information on potential industry sources of cloud managed support services as VA plans to move to the cloud to facilitate the delivery of services to military retirees. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says VA wants data on potential vendors that can provide professional, governance and operational support to […] More
Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said engineering and microservices are some of the factors that have driven most government agencies’ strategies as they transition from legacy information technology systems to hybrid cloud platforms, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. “The definition of cloud has really, really changed, and it’s really about your engineering […] More
In-Q-Tel has partnered with Evident.io to help the Pleasanton, California-based technology company further develop a compliance automation and security platform designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies secure their data infrastructure in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments. The company’s Evident Security Platform is an agent-less system that is built on AWS’ application programming interfaces and works to automate security […] More
Cloudera has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help data engineers run large-scale data processing applications in a public cloud environment. Altus works to help enterprise users accelerate the development and operation of elastic data pipelines that power data-driven applications through on-demand infrastructure, Cloudera said Wednesday. The service is now available in most Amazon Web Services cloud regions and the […] More
Genius SIS has launched its training management system on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region in an effort to help U.S. government agencies register, track and report on their training programs. Plantation, Florida-based Genius SIS said Wednesday the addition of its Student Information System on GovCloud will support customers’ compliance with government security requirements. AWS meets the Federal Risk and Authorization Management […] More
Frame, a developer of cloud application delivery platform, has secured $16 million in a funding round that included investors In-Q-Tel, Microsoft‘s ventures arm, Bain Capital Ventures and Columbus Nova Technology Partners. In-Q-Tel said Wednesday that Frame developed a platform that works to help organizations migrate desktops and virtual applications to any device through Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services cloud platforms. […] More
Amazon Web Services has begun to offer a serverless computing service in the company’s GovCloud isolated cloud region for U.S. government customers. AWS said Thursday the AWS Lambda computing service is designed to help developers run code in GovCloud without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda works to execute code when needed and charge users only for the compute time […] More
StoneFly has incorporated its cloud storage offering designed for Veeam Software’s backup and disaster recovery tool into Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud platform. StoneFly’s Scale-Out Cloud Storage for Veeam platform works to help users manage multiple nodes for cloud storage and repositories through a common user interface as well as access file storage, block storage and other […] More
Steve Harris, vice president and general manager of Dell EMC‘s federal business, has told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday he forecasts that agencies will prioritize investments in integrated hybrid cloud platforms in the next three years as part of information technology modernization efforts. Harris, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, said he believes agency chief information officers should have […] More
CloudPassage has partnered with Carahsoft to offer on-demand server and workload security service to the public sector through the latter’s positions on the General Services Administration Schedule 70 and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract vehicles. Carahsoft said Tuesday that it will act as master government aggregator of CloudPassage’s Halo platform in an effort to help agencies protect servers in cloud computing […] More
Okta has obtained “moderate” Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to provide government customers access to the company’s identity and access management offerings via the Amazon Web Services Cloud. The Justice Department granted an authorization to operate after the company demonstrated its compliance with 300 controls that include business continuity, incident response and vulnerability management applications, Okta said Thursday. “The cloud continues to be […] More
DigitalGlobe has adopted an Amazon Web Services mobile service offering to facilitate the transfer of large amounts of Earth satellite imagery and related data to the cloud. AWS Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale service designed to migrate up to 100 petabytes of data into the cloud through a 45-foot-long shipping container that can be hauled by […] More
