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Jim Benson: CorasCloud’s AppDev Tool Available on AWS GovCloud

CorasCloud has made its application development tool available on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region to help U.S. government clients design, build and implement cloud computing apps. The AppDev tool is also designed to helpÂ organizations transfer apps to an infrastructure-as-a-service provider without having to reconfigure them, CorasCloud said Tuesday. â€œOur goal is to provide every option […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman August 18, 2015, 11:11 am
in Government Cloud, Healthcare IT, News

Lockheedâ€™s Mahesh Kalva, Andrew Underhill: Health IT Groups Need to Craft Security Policies to Protect Private Cloud Data

Information technology staff at healthÂ organizationsÂ should craft risk management policies and adopt security measures to secure medical data in a private cloud platform, two chief technologists at Lockheed Martin wrote in a GCN article published Wednesday. Mahesh Kalva and Andrew Underhill said health care IT personnel must carry out certain measuresÂ such as penetration auditing, firewall […] More

by Jane Edwards August 6, 2015, 8:01 am
in Government Cloud, Industry News, News

Iron Bowâ€™s Ray Harris: CIOs Consider Operational Factors in IT Systems Procurement for ‘Internet of Things’

Ray Harris, chief information officer at Iron Bow Technologies, has said that most corporate CIOs focus on the operational aspect when purchasing and managing information technology systems in an effort to leverage the Internet of Things. Harris advisedÂ CIOs to conduct pilot testing of IoT-based projects to determine their capabilities before they launchÂ large-scale programs,Â Iron Bowâ€™s TechSource […] More

by Jane Edwards July 31, 2015, 11:23 am
in Government Cloud, News

Oracle Unveils New Retail Science, Analytics Cloud Offerings; Jill Puleri Comments

Oracle has introduced new cloud-based retail science and retail analytics services in an effort to help retailers extract insights from data. Retail organizations will be able to allocate product sale in multiple stores and oversee the way products are displayed, marketed and priced, Oracle said Wednesday. â€œOracle retail science cloud services and retail insights cloud […] More

by Jay Clemens July 22, 2015, 12:41 pm
in Government Cloud, Industry News, News

IDC: Vertical Industry Demand to Boost Public Cloud Market

A new report from International Data Corp.Â projects the global market for public cloud platforms to reach $70 billion this year as commercial enterprises in differentÂ industries look for services to manage their operations. The company said Tuesday banking, process and discrete manufacturing, retail and professional services are among the industries to represent nearly half of the […] More

by Jane Edwards July 21, 2015, 12:36 pm
in Featured, General, Government Cloud, News

SAP, Virtustream Forge Federal Cloud Deployment Alliance; Carmen Krueger Comments

SAP National Security ServicesÂ — aÂ U.S.-based subsidiary of the German software and technology conglomerate — and Virtustream have partnered to deliver standards-compliant cloud services to federal agency clients. SAP NS2 will help agencies with migrations ofÂ applications into managed and secure cloud platformsÂ in an effort to comply with the government-wideÂ Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the companiesÂ said […] More

by Jay Clemens July 21, 2015, 11:37 am
in Government Cloud, News

Cylance Approved as Federal Cloud Systems Inspector; Corey White Comments

Cylance has been authorized as a federal cloud systems inspection body and holds the status of third-party assessment organization for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. Cylance obtained the accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory after a demonstration of theÂ company’s technical complianceÂ for FedRAMP, Cylance said Monday. “We are proud to have […] More

by Jay Clemens July 21, 2015, 5:36 am
in Government Cloud, News

Razorsight’s Charlie Thomas: CSPs ‘Well Positioned’ in Cloud Market to Meet User Needs

Razorsight CEO Charlie ThomasÂ believes communications service providers have anÂ opportunity to position themselves as key players in the cloud market by utilizing insight and infrastructure to meet user needs. Thomas told VanillaPlus magazine that CSPs can leverage cloud app-driven data and predictive analytics to gain knowledge on cloud user needs and behaviors. “I think CSPs are […] More

by Anna Forrester July 17, 2015, 12:20 pm
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HP Taps CenturyLink for IT Service Provider Partnership Program; Eric Koach Comments

Hewlett-Packard will offer CenturyLinkâ€™s set of information technology platforms and services to its commercial clients as part of an agreement with the latter company. TheÂ HP PartnerOne for Service Provider ProgramÂ deal allows HP clients to choose, purchase and useÂ CenturyLinkâ€™s big data, managed hosting, cloud, storage and colocation offerings to help manage cloud-based data infrastructure,Â CenturyLink said Thursday. […] More

by Jane Edwards July 16, 2015, 6:43 am
in Government Cloud, News

Verizon Adds Infosys Software Suite to Cloud Offerings; Michael Reh Comments

Infosys has begun to offer the company’s suite of software services on Verizon Enterprise‘s cloud offerings in a software-as-a-service model. Financial clients in the U.S. will have access to Infosys’ Finacle suite via Verizon Cloud, Verizon said Thursday. Infosys has deployed Finacle Core Banking, Finacle e-Banking and Finacle Mobile Banking on Verizonâ€™s managed cloud infrastructure. […] More

by Jay Clemens July 14, 2015, 10:45 am
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IBM Offers Nvidiaâ€™s Dual-GPU Platform on Cloud-Based Bare Metal Servers

IBM has integrated Nvidiaâ€™s dual graphics processing unit boards with its cloud-based SoftLayer bare metal servers in an effort to help companies manage analytics and big data workloads in a cloud environment. IBM said Wednesday customers will now be able to use Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators on its IBM Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform to handle […] More

by Jane Edwards July 9, 2015, 9:00 am
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IDC: Cloud IT Infrastructure Spending to Reach $54.6B by 2019

International Data Corp. has released a new report that forecasts cloud information technology infrastructure spendingÂ toÂ account for 46.5 percent of overall IT infrastructure spendingÂ by 2019. IDC said Monday the projected $54.6 billion in cloud IT infrastructure spending by 2019 wouldÂ represent aÂ compound annual growth rate of 15.6 percent from 2015 through 2019. “The breadth and width of […] More

by Jay Clemens July 7, 2015, 9:35 am