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CSRA Adds AWS Commercial & Govt Cloud Platforms to GSA Schedule

CSRA has startedÂ to offerÂ Amazon Web Services‘Â commercial and government cloud platformsÂ through theÂ General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. Falls Church, Virginia-based CSRA said Thursday government customers can now buy AWS’ commercial and GovCloud services under Schedule 70’sÂ cloud computing services special item number. Yogesh Khanna, CSRA chief technology officer, said the company’s role as a reseller […] More

by Ramona Adams January 20, 2017, 4:45 am
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CenturyLink Secures Multistate Cooperative Contract to Offer Cloud Services

CenturyLink has received a 10-year contract to offer cloud and managed services to state and local government agencies that participate inÂ theÂ NASPO ValuePoint Cooperative Purchasing Organization. The company said Wednesday theÂ NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions Master Agreement is awarded toÂ cloud service providers with offerings that meetÂ security and data protection standards. Marty Leavengood, a CenturyLinkÂ vice president, said the […] More

by Ramona Adams January 19, 2017, 8:25 am
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Sam Gordy: IBM to Provide Army IaaS Support, Build Private Cloud Platform Under $62M Task Order

IBM will build and operate an on-premise private cloud platform and provide infrastructure-as-a-service support under a potential five-year, $62 million task orderÂ with the U.S. Army. The company said Wednesday it will design the cloud platform for the service branchâ€™s Redstone Arsenal facility in Alabama as part of the ArmyÂ Private Cloud Enterprise program. The task order […] More

by Jane Edwards January 19, 2017, 6:59 am
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Project Hosts to Offer Nintexâ€™s Document Generation Platform Via FedRAMP Private Cloud

Project Hosts will offer Nintexâ€™s document generation platform to government agencies through the formerâ€™s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-authorized private cloud. The Nintex Drawloop platform works to automate creation of digital documents in Salesforce through merger of data into any combination of document templates, Nintex said Tuesday. Jim Roberson, a vice president at Nintex, […] More

by Jane Edwards January 18, 2017, 5:35 am
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Microsoft’s Azure Govt Cloud Gets DoD Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization

The Defense Information Systems AgencyÂ has granted Microsoft‘s government cloud platformÂ anÂ information level impact 5 provisional authorizationÂ that offersÂ Defense DepartmentÂ personnel an option to use the cloud service to manageÂ controlled unclassified data. Tom Keane, Microsoft Azure general manager, wrote in a blog post published Friday the company worked with DISA and other mission partners to helpÂ Azure GovernmentÂ meet cloud computing […] More

by Scott Nicholas January 17, 2017, 5:05 am
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CSRA Holds Hacking Competition for Employees in Facet of ‘Customer Zero’ Strategy

CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) kicked off its first internalÂ “Hack-A-Thon” competition Wednesday morning at its Falls Church, Va. headquarters for employees as part of the company’s push to gain status asÂ “Customer Zero” for the federal government regarding technology adoption and integration. That distinction as Customer ZeroÂ — or “Client Zero” — would put forth CSRA as aÂ primary resource […] More

by Ross Wilkers January 12, 2017, 11:12 am
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Sevatec Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Tanusree McCabe Comments

Amazon Web ServicesÂ has added Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services provider SevatecÂ toÂ AWS’Â Public Sector Partner Program in the government category as part ofÂ an extended partnership between the two companies. Sevatec said MondayÂ it seeks to offerÂ cloud architecture, development and migration services to federal government customers through the program. The AWS Public Sector Partner Program recognizes companies that work to […] More

by Jay Clemens January 12, 2017, 5:49 am
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BlackMesh Debuts Security-Focused Cloud Offering for Govt Agencies; Jason Ford Comments

BlackMesh has introduced a new cloud platform that focuses on security services as part of efforts to extend technology offerings to the government sector. The company said TuesdayÂ its new government-focused cloud platform is designed to comply with federal and state requirements for data storage and security. The offering also seeksÂ to addressÂ various industry compliance standards such […] More

by Jay Clemens January 12, 2017, 3:11 am
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Veris Group Concludes FedRAMP High-Impact Level Assessment of 3 New AWS GovCloud (US) Services

Veris Group, which now operates under cyber risk management services provider Coalfire, has completed theÂ review of three additional service offerings within Amazon Web Servicesâ€™ GovCloud (US) platform as a third-party independent assessment organization for AWS under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Coalfire said Tuesday the Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Relational […] More

by Jane Edwards January 11, 2017, 5:20 am
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FedRAMP Board Approves 3 New AWS GovCloud Services; Teresa Carlson Comments

Amazon Web Services has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for three of the companyâ€™s GovCloudÂ service offerings for U.S. government clients. The board issued high baseline certificationsÂ for AWS’Â Relational Database Service for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgresSQL; Amazon CloudWatch Logs; and AWS CloudTrail, the companyÂ said Friday. â€œWe are […] More

by Jay Clemens January 9, 2017, 10:15 am
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Unveils On-Demand Cloud Computing Service Built on Red Hatâ€™s Open-Source Platforms

Cambridge, England-based genome research organization Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has begun to offer â€œscience-as-a-serviceâ€ offering built on Red Hatâ€™s OpenStack and CloudForms open-source technology platforms. The science-as-a-service offering works to standardize the instituteâ€™s cloud computing services, facilitate collaboration with biotechnology startups and help users run diverse workloads in cloud environments, Red Hat said Wednesday. Red […] More

by Jane Edwards January 5, 2017, 5:28 am
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DLT, Evident.io Forge AWS Cloud Security Partnership for Govt Clients

DLT Solutions and Evident.io have teamed up to offer a tool designed to help government clients secure their cloud infrastructure. Both companies will provide public sector clients with the Evident Security Platform that works to assess security misconfigurations and detect vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments through collection and analysis of application programming […] More

by Jane Edwards January 4, 2017, 3:09 am