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  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Seeks Feedback on Technical Requirements of Cloud Migration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Seeks Feedback on Technical Requirements of Cloud Migration

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has requested information on potential industry sources of cloud-based technology platforms as CFPB plans to migrate its data workloads to the cloud in fiscal year 2017. In a FedBizOpps sources sought notice posted Tuesday, CFPB asked interested vendors to provide feedback on the cost, timeline and technical requirements of its planned cloud adoption. The […] More

  • InfoReliance Receives AWS GovCloud (US) Skill Program Designation; John Sankovich Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoReliance Receives AWS GovCloud (US) Skill Program Designation; John Sankovich Comments

    Amazon Web Services has recognized InfoReliance for its efforts to manage and operate workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) cloud platform. InfoReliance received the AWS GovCloud (US) Skill Program status to acknowledge the former company as a consulting partner under the AWS Partner Network program, InfoReliance said Friday. John Sankovich, executive vice president for cloud solutions […] More

  • Qualtrics Achieves 'In-Process' Status in FedRAMP Compliance For Insight Collection Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics Achieves ‘In-Process’ Status in FedRAMP Compliance For Insight Collection Platform

    Qualtrics has achieved “in-process” status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based insight collection and analysis platform. The software company said Wednesday the Department of Health and Human Services sponsors its efforts to obtain compliance certification at the moderate level. Ryan Smith, co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics, said the in-process status helps make the Insight Platform more accessible […] More

  • TIBCO Secures FedRAMP Approval for Enterprise Social Collaboration Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TIBCO Secures FedRAMP Approval for Enterprise Social Collaboration Tool

    TIBCO Software Inc. has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for the company’s social enterprise collaboration platform after it completed the government’s security assessment process for cloud offerings. The tibbr 7 platform works to help organizations collaborate with vendors, customers and partners as well as assess collaboration activities through social analytics, TIBCO said Tuesday. “We’re delighted to announce our FedRAMP certification […] More

  • VA to Procure Enterprise Cloud Services Through NIH NITAAC Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA to Procure Enterprise Cloud Services Through NIH NITAAC Contract Vehicle

    The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to acquire enterprise cloud computing services through a contract vehicle managed by the National Institutes of Health’s national information technology acquisition and assessment center. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the initiative is part of the department’s efforts to update its information technology infrastructure through migration of data to […] More

  • BroadSoft Takes Unified Comms Offering Through FedRAMP Process; Scott Hoffpauir Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BroadSoft Takes Unified Comms Offering Through FedRAMP Process; Scott Hoffpauir Comments

    BroadSoft has kicked off the process to comply with the governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for the company’s cloud-based unified communication software offering in order to help partners provide the product to government clients. The company’s BroadCloud platform and UC-One application will be available to government agencies via BroadSoft’s public sector channel partners […] More

  • Microsoft, CSRA, Amazon Web Services Receive FedRAMP High Baseline Cloud Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, CSRA, Amazon Web Services Receive FedRAMP High Baseline Cloud Designation

    Microsoft, CSRA and Amazon Web Services have each received a newly-created high baseline designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to operate their cloud computing offerings on sensitive, unclassified systems for agencies. The FedRAMP program management office says the new high baseline level is intended to unlock nearly $40 billion in information technology funds per year […] More

  • Infor Eyes FedRAMP Certification for Public Cloud Software Suite Through AWS Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Infor Eyes FedRAMP Certification for Public Cloud Software Suite Through AWS Partnership

    Infor has partnered with Amazon Web Services as the New York-based enterprise software company aims to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based software suite to government agencies. The agreement allows Infor to host its CloudSuite Public Sector offering on AWS’  GovCloud (US) as well as receive guidance from cloud technology consulting and implementation services provider Day1 Solutions, an AWS Partner Network […] More

  • CloudLock's Cloud Cyber Platform Achieves FedRAMP 'In Progress' Status; Ron Zalkind Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CloudLock’s Cloud Cyber Platform Achieves FedRAMP ‘In Progress’ Status; Ron Zalkind Comments

    CloudLock has become the first cloud computing access security broker to achieve an “in Progress” status through the agency authorization route as part of the governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. CloudLock said Monday its Cloud Security Fabric Federal Edition serves as a cloud-native CASB and cloud cybersecurity platform that works to secure applications that agencies buy and build. “We believe […] More

  • Commerce Dept Reuses FedRAMP Authorizations for AWS GovCloud, East/West Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Dept Reuses FedRAMP Authorizations for AWS GovCloud, East/West Systems

    The Commerce Department has approved two Amazon Web Services cloud computing platforms for use in the agency’s big data projects under a pair of existing authority-to-operate designations. Commerce Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper and Deputy Chief Data Officer Tyrone Grandison said Wednesday AWS GovCloud and AWS East/West hold ATOs under the government-wide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the department has determined […] More

  • A2LA Accredits Sunera as Third-Party Cloud Assessor For FedRAMP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A2LA Accredits Sunera as Third-Party Cloud Assessor For FedRAMP

    Sunera has been accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation to serve as a third-party assessment organization under the federal government’s cloud computing program. The company said Tuesday cloud service providers that aim to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification can now employ the help of Sunera’s subject matter experts and RMS compliance platform. “With so much overlap among security controls, […] More