Government Cloud

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.

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  • FedRAMP Board Clears Datapipe's Govt Cloud Service Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board Clears Datapipe’s Govt Cloud Service Offering

    Datapipe has obtained a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a managed private cloud hosting service in the U.S. government sector. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board granted Datapipe a provisional authority-to-operate status for its Federal Community Cloud Platform, the company said Thursday. The company aims to help agencies manage sensitive information as […] More

  • CloudPassage to Offer Agencies Halo Security Platform Through AWS GovCloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CloudPassage to Offer Agencies Halo Security Platform Through AWS GovCloud

    CloudPassage‘s Halo platform will be available to federal government customers through Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud for the U.S. region as the security company works to achieve FedRAMP-ready status. CloudPassage said Tuesday it is seeking to obtain a certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide agile security functions to the Defense Department and other government agencies. “As government […] More

  • VArmour Extends Security Tool to AWS Cloud Platforms; Angie Messer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VArmour Extends Security Tool to AWS Cloud Platforms; Angie Messer Comments

    Data center security firm vArmour and Amazon Web Services have formed a partnership to help enterprises secure and manage their data workloads on AWS’ private, public and hybrid cloud computing platforms. VArmour will offer network control, policy enforcement and visibility to clients with workloads that run on AWS cloud environments through its Distributed Security System, vArmour said Monday. […] More

  • ActioNet to Extend NNSA On-Demand Cloud Infrastructure Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ActioNet to Extend NNSA On-Demand Cloud Infrastructure Services

    ActioNet has received a task order modification to provide additional cloud infrastructure support services to the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration on demand. NNSA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday the modification expands ActioNet’s work under a five-year, $6.3 million infrastructure-as-a-service contract originally awarded in February 2013. The company will help reconfigure an IaaS […] More

  • SAP, NTT Group Form Enterprise Cloud Partnership; Kevin Ichhpurani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP, NTT Group Form Enterprise Cloud Partnership; Kevin Ichhpurani Comments

    SAP and NTT Group have extended their alliance to provide enterprise cloud services to customers. The partnership is intended to offer the joint NTT and Dimension Data cloud platform and NTT‘s information technology infrastructure services to customers in South Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, NTT said Thursday. “NTT Group provides SAP with a critical component of enterprise-grade cloud services […] More

  • Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov't Cloud Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov’t Cloud Users

    Microsoft has made its Azure ExpressRoute cloud integration service available to users of the software company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Yousef Khalidi, Azure networking engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a Microsoft blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute service is designed to establish private connectivity between on-premises data centers and Azure cloud computing platform without the […] More

  • Deltek’s Alex Rossino: IBM Led FY 2011-2015 Federal Cloud Contract Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: IBM Led FY 2011-2015 Federal Cloud Contract Awards

    Established vendors continue to dominate the federal market for cloud platforms amid competition with commercial newcomers, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, cited IBM as the leading federal cloud vendor based on the value of awarded contracts from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2015. IBM booked $603 […] More

  • Deloitte's Ranjit Bawa: Look at Compatibility Before Business Migration to Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte’s Ranjit Bawa: Look at Compatibility Before Business Migration to Cloud

    Deloitte reports that IT leaders increasingly utilize cloud strategies to address business challenges as well as build toward a next-generation IT operating model. The company said Monday companies should develop a plan that considers the cloud compatibility of IT-supported business functions before migrating to cloud. Ranjit Bawa, a principal for the technology strategy and architecture practice at Deloitte, […] More

  • Esri Gets Census Bureau Authorization for Managed Cloud Service Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Gets Census Bureau Authorization for Managed Cloud Service Platform

    The U.S. Census Bureau has given Esri an authorization to provide its managed cloud service offering to federal agencies. Esri said Tuesday the designation is also certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and designed to help government agencies use ArcGIS, Esri’s geographic information system, in cloud environments. According to the company, this is the first instance under […] More

  • Report: IT Sector's Public Cloud Revenues Hit $22B in Q2 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: IT Sector’s Public Cloud Revenues Hit $22B in Q2 2015

    Synergy Research Group reports that information technology companies generated a combined revenue of $22 billion from public cloud platforms and services during 2015’s second quarter. The market research firm said Thursday hardware, software and data center infrastructure accounted for $10 billion of the IT industry’s quarterly public cloud revenue. IT firms collectively sold about $12 […] More

  • Michael Donlan: Microsoft's Cloud to Support Texas WIC Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Donlan: Microsoft’s Cloud to Support Texas WIC Operations

    Microsoft will provide the Microsoft Cloud Solution for WIC to host the management information system of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children program in Texas. Michael Donlan, vice president of Microsoft’s U.S. state and local government business, wrote in a piece published Wednesday that the program’s move to cloud aims to eliminate […] More

  • CenturyLink Adds Pivotal PaaS to Cloud Marketplace; Dave Shacochis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Adds Pivotal PaaS to Cloud Marketplace; Dave Shacochis Comments

    CenturyLink has begun to offer its customers Pivotal’s platform-as-a-service environment via CenturyLink’s cloud marketplace, Talking Cloud reported Friday. Dave Shacochis, vice president of cloud platform for CenturyLink, said the company intends for the Pivotal cloud foundry to expand the developer community’s access to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, Mike Vizard reports. Shacochis noted that cloud foundry environments […] More