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John Lee: Carahsoft Keeps Eye on FedRAMP Website Redesign

John Lee, vice president of cloud solutions at information technologyÂ services provider Carahsoft Technology, has noted the redesigned website of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Lee wrote Tuesday on the Carahsoft website that the revamp works to ease cloud vendors and government customers through the FedRAMP process and reflect new information […] More

by Anna Forrester March 18, 2015, 10:58 am
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General Dynamics to Help Sandia National Laboratories Design Cloud Infrastructure

General Dynamicsâ€™ information technology business has received a three-year, $1.3 million task order to develop cloud infrastructure for the federally funded Sandia National Laboratories. General Dynamics Information Technology will design the business framework, processes, service models, technical architecture and implementation plans to guide Sandia’s staff in deploying the information technology model, General Dynamics said Tuesday. […] More

by Jay Clemens March 18, 2015, 7:46 am
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Concurrent Technologies to Continue Work on NGAâ€™s Remote Hosted Desktop Project

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a go-signal to continue its work on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agencyâ€™s unclassified remote hosted desktop pilot project, Defense Systems reported Thursday. Mark Pomerleau writes NGA issued the three-month extension to complete the last two phases of the URHD project after Concurrent Technologies renewed its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program […] More

by Jay Clemens March 16, 2015, 9:26 am
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Michael Donlan: California DOJ OKs Microsoft Azure Gov’t for FBI Criminal Records Access

Microsoft‘s government cloud offering is now available to law enforcement agencies in California after the state’s justice department establishedÂ Microsoft Azure Government‘s compliance with federal data security and privacy regulations. Michael Donlan,Â vice president of Microsoft’s U.S. state and local government business, said Wednesday on the company website that compliance covers standards under the FBIÂ Criminal Justice Information […] More

by Anna Forrester March 12, 2015, 9:31 am
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IBM Opens New SoftLayer Cloud Center in Australia; Greg Furlong Comments

IBMÂ has opened a new cloud center in Sydney, Australia as part of efforts to expand the companyâ€™s cloud services in the country amid growing demand. The SoftLayer cloud center is meant to broaden data redundancy options within Australia and the Asia Pacific region for enterprise and Web infrastructure services, IBM said Tuesday. IBM is offering […] More

by Jay Clemens March 12, 2015, 4:00 am
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Dell Unveils Cloud Access Manager With Context-Based Controls; John Milburn Comments

Dell has launched the latest version of the Dell One IdentityÂ Cloud Access Manager featuringÂ the company’s Security Analytics Engine, support for theÂ OpenID Connect protocol, Microsoft certification for Office 365 interoperability and social authentication functions. The company said MondayÂ CAM 8.0Â works to enable organizations to control access to Web and mobile applications based on contextual information while facilitating […] More

by Anna Forrester March 10, 2015, 11:11 am
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Wayne Balta: Carnegie Mellon to Use IBM Cloud Analytics for ‘Smart’ Building Project

Carnegie Mellon University is set to deploy an IBM cloud-based analytics platform under a facility management partnership aimed at helping the academic institution use data to manage its building systems. IBM said Thursday that CMU aims to use IBM technology to monitor systems utilization on the university’s 36-building Pittsburgh campus and save up to $2 […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 6, 2015, 9:14 am
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VMware Platform Added to UK Govt Cloud Marketplace; Andy Tait Comments

VMware will offer a hybrid cloud platform through a U.K. government procurement vehicle meant to help the country’s public sector organizations to acquire cloud computing services. The company holds a position on the G-Cloud 6 framework contract to supply its VCloud Air products to British customer agencies, VMware said Tuesday. VCloud Air is designed to […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 4, 2015, 2:32 am
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Steve Robinson: IBM, CSC Extend Collaboration to Help Accelerate Cloud Tech Adoption

Computer Sciences Corp. has expanded its partnership with IBM to help enterprise clients accelerate development of cloud business applications with IBM’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service offering. The agreement allows CSC to offer the IBM technology to developers and customers who aim to build computing tools for on-premises, private, public or hybrid cloud environments, IBM said Monday. Steve […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman February 25, 2015, 8:17 am
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HP’s Stacy Cleveland: DoD Eyes Match Between Security Requirements, Commercial Cloud

The Defense Department is working to develop additionalÂ security standards and practices forÂ the commercial cloud that are tailored to protect sensitive and classified information, C4ISR & Networks reported Friday. John Edwards writes that the agencyÂ is looking to adapt commercial cloud security to fit DoD requirements for hosting its data. Stacy Cleveland, vice president of global practices […] More

by Anna Forrester February 23, 2015, 9:29 am
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TBR Research: Cloud Users to Prefer Customized Services in 2015

A TBR Research survey indicates that majority of cloud customers in 2015 will switchÂ toÂ services that fulfill their specific requirements through on-premise, private and single-tenant platforms, InformationWeek reported Monday. Charles Babcock writes the survey, conducted in the fourth quarter of 2014, shows a growing preference toward a single-tenant service among individual end customers. TBR also predicts […] More

by Jay Clemens February 17, 2015, 8:53 am
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EMC Survey Shows Rise in Global Adoption of Hybrid Cloud; Jeremy Burton Comments

EMC has commissioned a survey of 10,451 information technology professionals worldwide to assess their views on the role of IT in organizations. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne, indicates a growing adoption of hybrid cloud among companies due to pressure from IT skills gap and the need for an in-house broker of on-demand services, EMC […] More

by Jay Clemens February 11, 2015, 10:48 am