Government Cloud

Sunera has been accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation to serve as a third-party assessment organization under the federal government’s cloud computing program. The company said Tuesday cloud service providers that aim to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification can now employ the help of Sunera’s subject matter experts and RMS compliance platform. “With so much overlap among security controls, […] More

Cloud Constellation has launched a space-based cloud storage network that works to store and transport data without the use of the internet. The SpaceBelt cloud infrastructure is designed to protect information from hijacking, theft, monitoring and sabotage through a private architecture that connects space-based data centers, Cloud Constellation said May 17. The company added SpaceBelt offers its services for organizations in industries […] More

A Cubic Corp. business unit will unveil a cloud-based platform designed to manage traffic and transportation systems at the four-day ITS European Congress that will run through Thursday in Glasgow, Scotland. Cubic Transportation Systems’ NextTraffic is based on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and works to facilitate data collection and sharing in order to help cities […] More

Level 3 Communications will continue to provide internet, virtual private network and cloud services to federal agencies as part of a three-year extension to its Networx Enterprise contract with the General Services Administration. GSA extended the company’s Networx Enterprise contract, which is scheduled to expire in May 2017, through May 2020 in order to provide […] More

InfoReliance will provide Amazon Web Services infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud systems to the Justice Department and Government Accountability Office under a prime contract with DOJ.. The technology consulting firm said Friday the IaaS and PaaS offerings will work to facilitate security and service delivery for development, testing, quality assurance and production operations. The contract with DOJ also covers several multi-day […] More

Interactive Intelligence Group‘s customer engagement platforms have passed compliance programs that work to validate internal controls for security, availability and confidentiality of data center cloud operations. The company said Thursday its PureCloud offering attained a statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements and International Standard on Assurance Engagements SOC2 Type II from the auditing standards board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. PureCloud is […] More

Salesforce has picked Amazon Web Services to provide a public cloud infrastructure to the customer relationship management company as part of Salesforce’s effort to expand its international service infrastructure. Salesforce will migrate its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, App Cloud, Community Cloud and Analytics Cloud to the AWS platform under the agreement, AWS said Wednesday. AWS CEO […] More

VBrick is seeking a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based video management technology to government agencies. The company said Monday its Rev enterprise video platform is currently undergoing the FedRAMP security assessment framework review process. Rev is designed to help users create, view and share live and recorded video content across an organization. “Undertaking the […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency will release a request for proposals for the first phase of the Defense Department‘s milCloud 2 infrastructure-as-a-service system by June 6. The contract works to support the integration of commercial infrastructure services into a private cloud platform for the DoD community, DISA said in a pre-solicitation notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps. DISA added the selected contractor will also […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has said federal agencies should work to converge private and off-premises cloud platforms through hybrid clouds as they adopt the as-a-service business model. Rowan wrote in an article published in the March/April 2016 issue of GCN magazine that a hybrid cloud is designed to provide agencies with […] More

CenturyLink will offer its colocation, cloud and security services to state and local government agencies through the G2G Marketplace online procurement portal. G2G Marketplace works to provide technology services to agencies through its website, which can also facilitate the purchase of technology and professional services with pre-negotiated blanket purchase agreements, CenturyLink said Tuesday. Rick Buyens, CenturyLink regional sales vice president, said […] More