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ViON, Virtustream Form Government Cloud Services Partnership; Tom Frana Comments

ViON Corp. and Virtustream have teamed up to jointly offer enterprise cloud services to government clients. The companies will also provide application sizing and migration technologies for customers that want to transition applications into a cloud-based information technology system, Virtustream said Wednesday. Tom Frana, ViON president and CEO, said the company intends for the partnership […] More

by Jay Clemens March 19, 2014, 10:58 am
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MarketsandMarkets: Global PaaS Market to Reach $7B by 2018

A MarketsandMarkets report on the platform-as-a-service market hasÂ forecast the sector to be worth up to $6.94 billion in revenue by 2018 at a 32.54 percent compound annual growth rate. PaaS revenue has grown faster than the infrastructure and software segments due to its impact on the application development process, the market researcher says. The report, […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh March 17, 2014, 6:54 am
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CloudBees to Offer Continuous Delivery Platform Through Verizon’s Cloud

CloudBees has moved to extend the reach of its continuous delivery platform by joining the Verizon cloud engine, Virtualization Review reported Wednesday. John Waters writes the CloudBees delivery platform is built for developers to deploy applications and update Web and mobile apps. The Belgium-based company offers the DEV@cloud service for developers to test apps in […] More

by Jay Clemens March 7, 2014, 7:51 am
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Tom Ruff: Autonomic Resources, Akamai Aim to Help Federal IT Staffs Run Cloud Applications

Autonomic ResourcesÂ andÂ Akamai TechnologiesÂ have partnered to provide cloud computing products to public sector agencies under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, through which both companies hold Joint Authorization Board provisional authorizations. The companies said Thursday Autonomic Resources Cloud Platform will be combined with Akamai’sÂ DDoS mitigation, web application security and other services to create an end-to-end […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh March 6, 2014, 12:06 pm
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Paul Smith: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Available to Agencies ‘On-Demand’ Via Amazon Cloud

Red Hat‘s Enterprise Linux computing platform is available to government customers, agencies and system integrators through theÂ Amazon Web ServicesÂ GovCloud (US) region. Red Hat intends for Enterprise Linux users move workloads into the AWS cloud while maintaining the tools available through on-premise deployments, the companyÂ said Tuesday. “On AWS GovCloud (US), agencies can use Red Hat Enterprise […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh March 6, 2014, 9:38 am
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Scott Chapman: Project Hosts Seeks FedRAMP Approval to Offer Microsoft Govt Cloud Products

Microsoft partner Project Hosts is seeking a FedRAMP authorization to offer a range of hosted Microsoft cloud computing offerings to government clients. Project Hosts seeks to deliver Microsoft’s customer relationship management, collaboration software and project portfolio management products to agencies under the FedRAMP program, Project HostsÂ said Wednesday. Scott Chapman, Project Hosts co-founder and CEO, said […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 6, 2014, 9:09 am
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NTT Communications Rolls Out US Public Cloud Services

NTT Communications Corp. has collaborated with its U.S.-based group company Verio to release in the U.S. a suite of public cloud services that were previously available in Japan. The Biz Hosting Cloud (n) cloud services offerings will be available through NTT Comâ€™s U.S. datacenter starting Thursday, NTT ComÂ said Wednesday. The cloud suite features services such […] More

by Jay Clemens March 5, 2014, 11:40 am
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Peter Weber: Carpathia, VMware Team Aims for New Hybrid Federal Cloud to Fulfill FedRAMP

VMwareÂ andÂ CarpathiaÂ will collaborate to provide federal agencies a hybrid cloud computing service as both companies seek to acquire an authority-to-operate provision under the governmentwide FedRAMP program. The VMware vCloud Government Service will be designed to run legacy and new applications in order to help agencies extend their data centers into a cloud computing environment that holds […] More

by Ross Wilkers March 4, 2014, 3:31 pm
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Catherine Abate: NY Healthcare Org Chooses Microsoft Office 365 for Emergency Connectivity

A group of nonprofit community health centers in the state of New York will use Microsoft‘s Office 365 software and cloud email platform to maintain connections and communications during crises. Community Healthcare Network works with more than 75,000 patients per year across 11 health centers in four boroughs, Microsoft said Feb. 25. Catherine Abate, CHN […] More

by Ross Wilkers March 3, 2014, 10:42 am
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Hovig Safoian: LA Schools Aim to Transform Education Through Microsoft Cloud Email

A Los Angeles public school district has implemented Microsoft‘s Office 365 cloud computing platform for administrators and faculty members to access, organize and share documents from multiple devices. Microsoft partner SADA Systems worked to help the Los Angeles Unified School District adopt the cloud email system, Microsoft said Thursday. Office 365 includes privacy and security […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 3, 2014, 9:15 am
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CGI Extends IT Support of Norway Oil, Gas Activities

CGI has signed a four-year, $12.2 million contract with the Exploration and Production Information Management AssociationÂ to run an information technology system that manages oil and gas activities in Norway and other countries. Under the agreement, CGIÂ will operateÂ theÂ cloud-based License2Share information-sharing tool to support oil and gas explorationÂ until 2017, the company said Thursday. The contract is part […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh February 27, 2014, 5:17 am
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Andrew Crouch of Level 3: Security Tops Health IT Industry Concerns for Cloud Adoption

Andrew Crouch of Level 3 Communications has urged the healthcare industry to do more to help enterprises trust cloud environments to keep their systems and information, noting that security remains a top concern for companies wanting to adopt the platform. He cited a recent Level 3-commissioned report, where 42 percent of more than 50 healthcare […] More

by Ross Wilkers February 26, 2014, 12:28 pm