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  • Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Dell to Offer Integrated Starter Pack for PaaS Cloud

    Red Hat and Dell have partnered to combine Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise platform and Dell’s PowerEdge R420 server and partner services program into the integrated DevOps Solution Starter Pack offering. Red Hat said Tuesday that Vizuri and other channel partners will resell the package, which works to deliver platform-as-a-service hybrid cloud tools to developers, administrators and other customers. Joe Dickman, senior vice president of […] More

  • Paul Smith: Red Hat Debuts Cloud Consulting Service Offering for Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Smith: Red Hat Debuts Cloud Consulting Service Offering for Public Sector

    Red Hat has rolled out a consulting service aimed at helping government customers to implement and secure cloud-based information technology systems. The Red Hat Cloud for Government program is designed to offer tools and methods for agencies to manage cloud infrastructure and computing services in their data centers, the company said Monday. “Budget-strapped agencies want […] More

  • HumanTouch's James Benson: Agencies Wary of Risk in IT Procurement Timelines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HumanTouch’s James Benson: Agencies Wary of Risk in IT Procurement Timelines

    Platform-as-a-service gives federal agencies a tool to support their initiatives on cloud computing and data center consolidation but many have not embraced PaaS due to several reasons, James Benson of HumanTouch says. Benson, a HumanTouch senior vice president, wrote in a post for GCN published Thursday that he believes some system integrators are hindering federal adoption of PaaS despite its functions in application […] More

  • David Blankenhorn: DLT to Connect Cloud Users With Amazon, Red Hat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Blankenhorn: DLT to Connect Cloud Users With Amazon, Red Hat

    DLT Solutions has released a private cloud computing offering to integrate Red Hat‘s OpenShift Enterprise and Amazon Web Services into an environment for users to develop, test and deploy applications. CODEvolved is designed to expedite the software development and deployment process, the company said Wednesday. David Blankenhorn, chief cloud technologist at DLT, said the company aimed to connect users with […] More

  • Red Hat, SAP Form Cloud Database Tech Partnership; Karl Heinz-Hoffmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, SAP Form Cloud Database Tech Partnership; Karl Heinz-Hoffmann Comments

    Red Hat and SAP have partnered to help developers code and design enterprise data management applications that work to run on OpenShift cloud environments. The companies intend to offer technology cartridges for SAP’s Adaptive Server, IQ and SQL programs for developers to use with Red Hat’s suite of OpenShift app development platforms, Red Hat said […] More

  • Julio Tapia: Red Hat Debuts 3rd-Party Cloud Apps Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Julio Tapia: Red Hat Debuts 3rd-Party Cloud Apps Marketplace

    Red Hat has launched a digital shop for developers to find and try cloud computing applications supported by the company’s OpenShift platform-as-a-service offering. The OpenShift Marketplace offers information on email delivery services, database, messaging queues and application performance monitoring products, Red Hat said Monday. The portal features platforms from various OpenShift value-added resellers, including BlazeMeter, ClearDB, […] More

  • Oracle Launches Cloud Data Storage, Backup Services; Chris Pinkham Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Launches Cloud Data Storage, Backup Services; Chris Pinkham Comments

    Oracle has introduced two cloud service offerings intended to help enterprise clients store, back up and secure database systems. The Database Backup Service and Storage Cloud Service platforms are designed to move business information or applications between on-premise and cloud environments, Oracle said Monday. Chris Pinkham, Oracle senior vice president for product development, said the […] More

  • IO's Brian Fanzo: 'Shadow IT' Presents Security Threats, Worries Managers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IO’s Brian Fanzo: ‘Shadow IT’ Presents Security Threats, Worries Managers

    Chief executives and business line managers that use shadow information technology services are taking large risks against having convenience and efficiency, IO technology evangelist Brian Fanzo writes in an article for the company’s Data Centers blog. Fanzo describes shadow IT tools as cloud-based software and platforms offered as a service. He described how those technologies run outside […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Global PaaS Market to Reach $7B by 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Global PaaS Market to Reach $7B by 2018

    A MarketsandMarkets report on the platform-as-a-service market has 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

  • John Keese: Autonomic Resources Earns FedRAMP Qualification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Keese: Autonomic Resources Earns FedRAMP Qualification

    Autonomic Resources has earned FedRAMP reauthorization for its ARC-P cloud offering, the first company to pass the federal agency’s ongoing assessment process. The ARC-P Community and ARC-P Private infrastructure-as-a-service platforms received initial accreditation in December 2012, the company said Monday. The re-inspection performed by a third-party assessment organization was checked against more than 100 NIST […] More