Government Cloud

The U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command will launch a pilot program for reserve units to test a cloud-based Microsoft communication and collaboration system, Nextgov reported Tuesday. SPAWAR estimates adopting the Office 365 cloud email platform would save the organization almost $17 million over five years, according to the report by Bob Brewin. […] More

IBM has opened a new cloud resiliency center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina in a move to help businesses protect their assets from disruptions. The company combined cloud and traditional disaster recovery systems with new physical security features into the new facility, IBM said Monday. Monitise has partnered with IBM to grow mobile banking, payments and commerce ecosystems at cloud […] More

Carpathia will launch the Early Access Program for its VMware vCloud Government Service based on feedback from the invited participants to its earlier beta-testing program on the enterprise-class hybrid cloud service. Peter Weber, Carpathia CEO, wrote Friday on the company blog that the new program is open to federal CIOs and IT organizations that plan to develop and test cloud applications on […] More

AT&T has moved to help clients adopt cloud computing technologies by extending its cloud networking service to IBM‘s SoftLayer cloud infrastructure. The companies sought to help customers of AT&T’s virtual private network connect information technology systems to SoftLayer’s cloud services through the AT&T NetBond platform, AT&T said Thursday. “Together, we’re making the network as flexible as the cloud and giving enterprises confidence they can migrate […] More

Creative Computing Solutions Inc. has received an accreditation to perform independent reviews of cloud computing offerings for federal agencies through the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program. CCSi will evaluate if a government cloud service provider adheres to security and control standards as a FedRAMP third-party assessment organization, the company said Monday. “As a 3PAO, we […] More

Colin Lacey, vice president of data center transformation services at Unisys, has outlined several recommended steps for enterprises to implement their cloud strategy. Lacey wrote in a post published Tuesday that Unisys begins its approach by developing a plan and evaluating the workloads through technical, business requirement and compliance reviews. “Moving along the curve, once you […] More

Cisco and Red Hat have extended their partnership to open collaboration around the OpenStack, Intercloud and Application Centric Infrastructure tools and unveiled a new integrated infrastructure for cloud deployments on OpenStack. Cisco said Thursday the new Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure product family is designed for private cloud operations on OpenStack and on-ramp to Intercloud for enterprise and midmarket customers. “Open […] More

Amazon Web Services has expanded its instance offerings for an AWS platform designed to help U.S. government customers process sensitive workloads in cloud environment. Jeff Barr, AWS chief evangelist, writes in a blog post published Thursday the company added five more EC2 virtual machine types hosted on the AWS GovCloud (US) system. HS1 instance is […] More

Kevin King, external communications director at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has laid out strategies for enterprises to protect their cloud infrastructure from cyber attacks. King wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that businesses must develop security protocols such as multifactor authentication, role-based access controls, log monitoring, application vulnerability scanning and security governance. He urged enterprises to provide information on […] More

IBM has secured three new global customers in the field of credit and finance that seek to apply the company’s cloud, big data and analytics tools in business processes, eWeek reported Aug. 23. Darryl Taft writes that IBM has added Ujjivan Financial Services in India, Westpac New Zealand and Veda in Australia and New Zealand to its customer […] More

Shaygan Kheradpir, Juniper Networks CEO, has outlined his plan to achieve the company’s mission goals by focusing on cloud builders and high-IQ networks, MicroScope reported Thursday. Linda Endersby writes Kheradpir considers cloud computing as an instrument to further the growth of global connectivity. Juniper intends to concentrate on cloud builders as customers turn to the […] More