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  • CenturyLink Secures Multistate Cooperative Contract to Offer Cloud Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Secures Multistate Cooperative Contract to Offer Cloud Services

    CenturyLink has received a 10-year contract to offer cloud and managed services to state and local government agencies that participate in the NASPO ValuePoint Cooperative Purchasing Organization. The company said Wednesday the NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions Master Agreement is awarded to cloud service providers with offerings that meet security and data protection standards. Marty Leavengood, a CenturyLink vice president, said the […] More

  • GSA Seeks Info on SaaS Offerings for Admin Functions; Beth Angerman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Seeks Info on SaaS Offerings for Admin Functions; Beth Angerman Comments

    The General Services Administration has kicked off its search for industry sources of software-as-a-service offerings for administrative functions in a request for information issued by the agency. GSA said Wednesday its unified shared services management office seeks information about modular and interoperable ways to deliver common technology services and about the Federal Integrated Business Framework‘s viability as a […] More

  • Utah State Govt Awards Carahsoft Cloud Tech Reseller Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Utah State Govt Awards Carahsoft Cloud Tech Reseller Contract

    Carahsoft has secured a contract from Utah’s state government to offer participating states, educational and local government agencies access to cloud technologies from the company and its authorized resellers such as SAP and ePlus. Carahsoft said Tuesday the potential 10-year NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions contract was awarded through a competitive solicitation and evaluation process launched by the state of Utah. “Carahsoft and […] More

  • Veritas Updates Cloud-Based Data Archiving Platform for Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veritas Updates Cloud-Based Data Archiving Platform for Govt Clients

    Veritas Technologies has launched a new version of its software-as-a-service data archiving platform for government customers to manage email records electronically. Enterprise Vault 12.1 is designed to help federal agencies comply with the Managing Government Records Directive as well as support the National Archives and Records Administration‘s Capstone approach for email management, Veritas said Wednesday. “Our federal customers […] More

  • Siemens Unveils Cloud-Based Digital Grid Services Platform Offering; Mike Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Unveils Cloud-Based Digital Grid Services Platform Offering; Mike Carlson Comments

    Siemens has launched a new digital grid services offering the company designed to help utility sector customers in the U.S. access digital operational environments through cloud and managed service systems. The digital grid services platform offering comprises subscription-based software as a service grid management applications, managed services and cloud-hosted environments hosted in Siemens’ data centers, […] More

  • Veritas Unveils Cloud-Based Archiving, eDiscovery Platforms for Govt Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veritas Unveils Cloud-Based Archiving, eDiscovery Platforms for Govt Sector

    Veritas Technologies has released two new cloud-based technology offerings designed for data archiving and electronic discovery operations. Veritas said Tuesday it partnered with bluesource and ProjectHosts to make Veritas’  Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator platforms available to government agencies through a software-as-a-service level cloud environment certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator work to help users manage their […] More

  • FirstFuel's Cloud & Remote Audit Tools Made Available to Federal Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FirstFuel’s Cloud & Remote Audit Tools Made Available to Federal Agencies

    IT Federal Sales will offer FirstFuel Software‘s cloud-based platform and remote energy and water audit tools to federal agencies via the General Services Administration IT Schedule 70 contract. Lexington, Massachusetts-based FirstFuel said Tuesday it has been added to the Special Item Number 142 40 cloud computing services schedule to offer remote energy intelligence and monitoring to federal government customers. Jeff Niesz, vice […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute AdvoLogix Legal Matter Mgmt Services Across Public Sector Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute AdvoLogix Legal Matter Mgmt Services Across Public Sector Markets

    Carahsoft has teamed up with AdvoLogix to distribute the latter’s cloud-based law practice and legal matter management services in the local, city, state and federal government markets. AdvoLogix said Tuesday its software-as-a-service suite was designed to help legal departments in the government update matter management processes, prioritize workloads, focus legal capacity, simplify document/email management and streamline internal and external collaboration. Carahsoft […] More

  • Eccovia Solutions to Offer Case Mgmt System Through Microsoft Azure Govt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eccovia Solutions to Offer Case Mgmt System Through Microsoft Azure Govt Platform

    Eccovia Solutions plans to offer a case management system to agencies and other enterprise organizations in the health and human services sector through Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud computing platform. Eccovia said Wednesday the case management tool works to address the need for integrated technology systems that support collaboration between government agencies and social service organizations, care providers and others. Eccovia CEO […] More

  • Accellion Gets ‘In-Process’ FedRAMP Certification for Private Cloud Platform; Yorgen Edholm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accellion Gets ‘In-Process’ FedRAMP Certification for Private Cloud Platform; Yorgen Edholm Comments

    Accellion has obtained what the company called an “in-process” certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer a private cloud platform to federal agencies. The company said Thursday it expects to achieve a full FedRAMP certification in 2016 for its Kiteworks Federal Cloud offering. Palo Alto, California-based Accellion’s Kiteworks is a software-as-a-service […] More

  • Skyhigh Cloud Access Security Broker for Government Achieves FedRAMP Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Skyhigh Cloud Access Security Broker for Government Achieves FedRAMP Certification

    Skyhigh Networks can deploy its cloud security and government policy compliance platform to federal agencies after its certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Skyhigh said Tuesday its Skyhigh Cloud Access Security Broker for Government platform works to provide a software-as-a-service offering to help agencies meet security requirements and achieve U.S. “cloud first” policy compliance. CASB for Government is designed to facilitate […] More

  • Onvia's Lyndon Dacuan: State, Local Agencies Eye IT 'as a Service' Delivery Models - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Onvia’s Lyndon Dacuan: State, Local Agencies Eye IT ‘as a Service’ Delivery Models

    An Onvia study has found that the number of solicitations from state and local agencies for “as a service’ information technology management models hit 940 during 2015, a nearly 10 percent increase from the prior-year figure. “With the number of solicitations increasing steadily, the doors are opening for IT service providers that can provide government agencies with new business […] More