Government Cloud

Microsoft has released a new program in support of its Azure Government offering to help government agencies and third-party providers comply with regulations when they use the service. The initial release of Azure Blueprint program is designed to help information system security officers define responsibilities for each security control in a cloud ecosystem, Microsoft’s Nate Johnson […] More

CloudPassage has secured a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Ready status under the first of a three-phase process that cloud service providers go through to receive an authorization to operate. CloudPassage said Wednesday it used the company’s Halo software-as-a-service platform to gain the designation through the FedRAMP Accelerated process. Halo is included on the FedRAMP marketplace for federal agencies and government contractors, […] More

A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 25.6 percent for the global cloud computing in education market over the next five years. The 151-page report estimates that revenue for education-related cloud computing products and services will reach $25.36 billion by 2021 from $8.13 billion in 2016, the RnR Market Research said Oct. 6. Public cloud deployment type is projected […] More

IBM’s Australian arm has received a potential six-month, $2.4 million contract to provide an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform for a federal government agency in Australia, ZDNet reported Friday. Asha McLean writes the contract with the Australian Taxation Office comes a month after IBM received approximately $5.3 million in contracts from Australia’s five federal agencies that include the departments […] More

QTS Realty Trust has purchased a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant cloud platform from VMware for an undisclosed sum. QTS said Wednesday it has rebranded VMware vCloud Government Service as QTS Government Cloud and expects the acquisition to help expand QTS’ portfolio of hybrid cloud platforms designed to help federal information technology professionals meet IT infrastructure compliance requirements. […] More

Microsoft has reached more than $3 billion in cloud infrastructure investments that support the company’s efforts to meet demand from European partners and clients. Microsoft said Monday the company plans to offer its cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 from France-based data centers in 2017. “We continue to invest heavily in cloud infrastructure to […] More

Microsoft has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for the company’s cloud-based customer relationship management software offering for public sector clients. The company said Thursday its Dynamics CRM Online Government platform has been granted P-ATO at moderate level through the FedRAMP Accelerated process that works to expedite the CSP certification timeline within six months or less. […] More

Govplace has received subcontract from ManTech International to provide cybersecurity and cloud systems to federal agencies in support of the government-wide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation and Continuous Monitoring as a Service initiatives. Govplace said Thursday it will work with prime contractor ManTech under CDM Group F phases 1 and 2 that cover 44 federal agencies through a government-only shared services platform […] More

Accenture has unveiled a new cloud-based platform developed to assist wealth management firms that attempt to comply with the Labor Department‘s fiduciary rule for advisers that oversee retirement accounts that will take effect on April 2017. The company said Wednesday the Accenture Wealth Management Compliance Solution for Salesforce will work with the latter’s Financial Services Cloud created to transform the client-advisor relationship for the […] More

MediaValet has received a contract to help store, secure and manage the U.S. Naval Institute’s library of historic assets as part of the nonprofit professional military association’s long-term digitization project. The cloud software maker and service provider said Thursday the USNI team wants a digital management system that will consolidate the non-profit military association’s historical assets, educational material and marketing collateral into […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. and Hitachi Data Systems have agreed to expand their strategic partnership in an effort to help enterprises adopt cloud-based digital platforms designed to accelerate business processes. CSC and HDS will jointly provide clients with the CSC BizCloud tool equipped with the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform, SAP‘s Hana in-memory data management platform and storage-as-a-service offerings, CSC said […] More