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  • AWS Unveils 'City on a Cloud' Innovation Challenge Winners; Teresa Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Unveils ‘City on a Cloud’ Innovation Challenge Winners; Teresa Carlson Comments

    Amazon Web Services has selected 19 winners for its 2017 AWS City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge to highlight local and regional governments’ contribution to develop technologies for citizens around the world. The company said Wednesday it named winners across the Best Practices, Dream Big and Partners in Innovation categories during the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. Teresa […] More

  • Novetta Unveils Analytics Tool in AWS Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Novetta Unveils Analytics Tool in AWS Marketplace

    Novetta has launched a big data analytics platform in the Amazon Web Services marketplace. Mission Analytics is a web-based visualization application that works to merge data from different sources in various formats and helps users customize views and map connections between entities, the company said Monday. Kevin Heald, vice president of defense intelligence at Novetta, said […] More

  • AWS Eyes GovCloud East Region Launch in 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Eyes GovCloud East Region Launch in 2018

    Amazon Web Services plans to launch in 2018 a second region for its cloud platform designed to host regulated data workloads and sensitive information. The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region will work to provide government clients with additional disaster recovery options and help them comply with several regulatory requirements, the company said Tuesday. These government regulations include […] More

  • Riverbed to Exhibit Software-Defined WAN at AWS Public Sector Summit; Davis Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverbed to Exhibit Software-Defined WAN at AWS Public Sector Summit; Davis Johnson Comments

    Riverbed Technology is set to present a suite of software-defined wide area network and visibility platforms designed for cloud environments at the three-day Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit that kicked off Monday in Washington, D.C. The company said Monday it will demonstrate its SteelConnect SD-WAN offering that works to combine policy-based orchestration and management across […] More

  • Accellion Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Content Collaboration Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accellion Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Content Collaboration Tool

    Accellion has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  certification to offer a cloud-based content collaboration system to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization seeks to facilitate the deployment of Accellion’s kiteworks content collaboration tool on Amazon Web Services’ Cloud platform to help government employees access and transmit sensitive data files, Accellion said Monday. “Earning […] More

  • AWS to Establish New Fairfax County, VA Corporate Campus - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS to Establish New Fairfax County, VA Corporate Campus

    Amazon Web Services plans to establish a new corporate campus in Fairfax County, Virginia, as part of expansion efforts and expects the project to create up to 1,500 jobs. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership teamed up with the Major Employment and Investment Commission of the state’s general assembly to land the project, AWS said Thusrday. The AWS facility will be […] More

  • StackArmor Earns AWS Security Competency Status - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    StackArmor Earns AWS Security Competency Status

    Bethesda, Maryland-based cloud consulting and managed services provider stackArmor has met the requirements for a “Security Competency” designation under an Amazon Web Services partner network. AWS has included stackArmor as one of ten initial security consulting launch partners for the former’s Partner Competency Program that works to help clients identify vendors that can help them integrate and implement cloud-based platforms, stackArmor said Wednesday. StackArmor […] More

  • StoneFly Integrates Disaster Recovery Tool With Microsoft Azure, AWS Cloud Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    StoneFly Integrates Disaster Recovery Tool With Microsoft Azure, AWS Cloud Platforms

    StoneFly has combined its disaster recovery and backup tool with cloud platforms from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. The integration with AWS’ Amazon Glacier and Simple Storage Service as well as Microsoft’s Azure Government and public cloud platforms seeks to equip StoneFly’s DR365 disaster recovery system with repositories designed to secure data, StoneFly said Wednesday. DR365 has […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership

    In-Q-Tel has partnered with Evident.io to help the Pleasanton, California-based technology company further develop a compliance automation and security platform designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies secure their data infrastructure in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments. The company’s Evident Security Platform is an agent-less system that is built on AWS’ application programming interfaces and works to automate security […] More

  • Amazon Vet Peter Cohen Joins Fortinet Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Vet Peter Cohen Joins Fortinet Board

    Peter Cohen, a 17-year veteran of Amazon and co-founder of Xendota, has joined the board of directors at Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity firm Fortinet. Cohen said in a statement published Tuesday he aims to help “provide strategic counsel on the cloud technology priorities, partnerships and innovations that will help contribute to the company’s continued momentum with enterprise customers.” He currently […] More

  • Cloudera Unveils Managed Data Engineering Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera Unveils Managed Data Engineering Service

    Cloudera has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help data engineers run large-scale data processing applications in a public cloud environment. Altus works to help enterprise users accelerate the development and operation of elastic data pipelines that power data-driven applications through on-demand infrastructure, Cloudera said Wednesday. The service is now available in most Amazon Web Services cloud regions and the […] More

  • Genius SIS Debuts Training Mgmt Tool on AWS Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Genius SIS Debuts Training Mgmt Tool on AWS Govt Cloud

    Genius SIS has launched its training management system on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region in an effort to help U.S. government agencies register, track and report on their training programs. Plantation, Florida-based Genius SIS said Wednesday the addition of its Student Information System on GovCloud will support customers’ compliance with government security requirements. AWS meets the Federal Risk and Authorization Management […] More