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IBM Designs Silicon Photonics Chip for Cloud, Big Data Transmission; Arvind Krishna Comments

IBM has developed and tested a silicon photonics chip designed to use tiny optical fibers and light pulses to move huge amounts of data between computing systems. The company believes its complementary metal-oxide semiconductor integrated nanophotonics technology could help industry manufacture optical transceivers capable of transferring information at 100 gigabits per second, IBM said Tuesday. […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 12, 2015, 12:19 pm
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IBM Launches New Services on Bluemix Cloud Development Platform

IBM has added its own services to its Bluemix cloud development tool to help developers to quickly build, manage and deploy cloud applications for Internet of Things, mobile and supply chain environments. The Bluemix API Management service could help facilitate sharing and implementation of large-scale application programming interfaces, while the IBM MobileFirst Platform service is […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh May 12, 2015, 9:09 am
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MeriTalk Unveils New Cloud Adoption Tools for Gov’t Clients; Steve Oâ€™Keeffe Comments

MeriTalk has introduced three new cloud computing tools intended to help federal government customers adopt cloud services in compliance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The Gov Cloud Shopper initiative is designed for government buyers to estimate cloud cost based on data from FedRAMP-approved cloud service providers, MeriTalk said Monday. Under the GCS […] More

by Jay Clemens May 12, 2015, 8:31 am
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Pivotal, Mirantis Form OpenStack-Based Cloud Foundry Alliance; James Watters Comments

Pivotal and Mirantis have teamed up to offer the Cloud Foundry service on Mirantisâ€™ OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure. Under the partnership, Pivotal will run its Cloud Foundry-based platform-as-a-service on Mirantis OpenStack and Mirantis will distribute Pivotal Cloud Foundry to clients, Pivotal said Monday. James Watters, vice president and general manager of the cloud platform group at […] More

by Jay Clemens May 11, 2015, 6:33 am
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SAP-HP Team to Offer App Migration Services Via HANA, Helion

SAPÂ and Hewlett-PackardÂ have partnered to deliver a joint offering that supports the migration of business applications toÂ SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANAÂ via theÂ HP Helion Managed Cloud. SAP said Tuesday the companies will also provide consulting, software, application migration and implementation services toÂ customers that seek toÂ transition workloads into a digital platform. Michael Kleinemeier, member of SAP’s global […] More

by Anna Forrester May 6, 2015, 5:07 am
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DISA Gives Impact Level 2 Provisional Authorization to 23 Cloud Services; Terry Halvorsen Comments

The Defense Information Systems AgencyÂ has given provisional authorization to 23 commercial cloud service offerings for the hosting ofÂ Defense Department data at Impact Level 2, which covers noncontrolled unclassified information. DISA said MondayÂ the offerings comply with the moderate baseline of theÂ Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). “The granting of these provisional authorizations is an important […] More

by Anna Forrester May 5, 2015, 9:42 am
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ISC, Cloud Security Alliance Forge New Cloud Security Certification; David Shearer Comments

ISC and the Cloud Security Alliance have jointly launched a cloud security certification in a move to set the standards for validating skills in cloud management security worldwide, Talkinâ€™ Cloud reported Monday. Ericka Chickowski writes the Certified Cloud Security Professional certification builds on existing Certified Information Systems Security Professional and CSA’s Certificate of Cloud Security […] More

by Jay Clemens April 27, 2015, 11:03 am
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Teresa Carlson: Public Sector a Key Market for AWS

Amazon‘s cloud computing business posted revenue of $1.57 billion for the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, up almost 50 percent from the prior year period, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Amrita Jayakumar writes Amazon Web Services‘ performance is partly attributed to its cloud information technology services contracts in the government sector. â€œWe always […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman April 24, 2015, 7:15 am
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Hitachi’s Liz Heiston: Agencies Must Consider Automation, System Mgmt to Drive Cloud Migration

Liz Heiston, national account manager at Hitachi Data SystemsÂ Federal, said that agencies using the Federal Risk and Authorization Management ProgramÂ should considerÂ applyingÂ system management and automation tools to manage cloud migration efforts. In a guest piece published Thursday on Federal Times, Heiston noted that while FedRAMP covers the security of cloud services offered by vendors, agencies must […] More

by Anna Forrester April 10, 2015, 8:36 am
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Bob Picciano: IBM Seeks to Facilitate IoT Apps Development with Open Platform Offering

IBM plans to release a new cloud-based open platform in an effort to help developers and clients build enterprise applications for managing data from connected devices. The company said Tuesday it will also add Internet of Things services to the firm’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service offering to facilitate the integration of IoT information into cloud computing apps. […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 31, 2015, 10:19 am
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Huddle Cloud Collab Service Gets FedRAMP ATO From USAID; Morten Brogger Comments

HuddleÂ will be able to provide the U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentÂ and other agencies with its U.S. cloud collaboration service after receiving an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said ThursdayÂ its service works toÂ support cross-agency file sharing, project management and other collaboration activities through a single cloud platform to […] More

by Anna Forrester March 27, 2015, 5:43 am
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Natoma Migrates GSAâ€™s Electronic Project Mgmt Application to AWS Cloud Platform; Jason March Comments

Natoma Technologies Inc. has transitioned the General Services Administrationâ€™s electronic project management application to Amazon Web Servicesâ€™ cloud environment. The company will work to operate and maintain the ePM system on the GovCloud platform under the five-year contract with GSA, Natoma said March 17. “We are excited to successfully achieve an authorization for ePM to […] More

by Jay Clemens March 24, 2015, 8:53 am