Government Cloud

Navdeep Sidhu, senior director of product marketing at Software AG, belives using technology designed to integrate disparate systems can make cloud implementation easier for enterprises. Sidhu writes in a blog post published Wednesday that many organizations adopt multiple cloud-based applications to manage customer service, human resources and accounting functions. He says that hybrid integration platforms […] More

HP and Avaya have partnered to combine their technologies into one management product suite, an agreement company executives believe can address growing demand for the service. Under the pact spanning several years, HP infrastructure will host Avaya’s unified communications and contact center software to provide an as-a-service business collaboration tool, the first of its kind in the […] More

Federal agencies have used different approaches to procure cloud computing products and services and many have indicated they face difficulties when they structure cloud contracts, ASI Government‘s Kymm McCabe, Frank McNally and Anne Laurent say. In a guest post published Tuesday on FCW, the authors point to ASI Government’s cloud acquisition guides, where the company highlighted parts 12 and 39 of the […] More

Cloud computing has dominated the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ information technology spending via the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology contract vehicle, totaling an estimated $153 million spread across several projects, according to Deltek‘s Alex Rossino. Rossino, a principal research analyst, writes Tuesday that VA’s cloud spending mainly focuses on mobile and health IT capabilities and services. “In this sense, the […] More

Systems Made Simple‘s John Reeher and Chris Jackson have outlined several tactics they believe can help government agencies move their IT systems into a cloud environment in a guest column for GCN published Thursday. Reeher, a system architect, and Jackson, a subject-matter expert on infrastructure services, write that agencies should plan ahead by determining the right technology, security controls […] More

A MarketsandMarkets report estimates the value of the worldwide government cloud market to be $18.48 billion by 2018, up from $2.87 billion last year. The research firm said Thursday it predicts North America will be the largest regional market for cloud computing platforms designed for government organizations through 2018. Federal, state and local government agencies […] More

Level 3 Communications has opened a data center in Herndon, Virginia, to deliver cloud computing and managed information technology services to government and other enterprise clients. The Herndon facility is the newest addition to the company’s Premier Elite global infrastructure network and features power, cooling, security and connectivity systems, Level 3 said Thursday. Premier Elite […] More

Kirk Kern, chief technology officer for cloud at NetApp‘s U.S. public sector practice, has outlined five strategies that federal agencies can adopt when restructuring their IT systems for a cloud environment, FCW reported Wednesday. According to Kern, agencies are increasingly turning to the cloud and other IT re-architecture solutions to address concerns with operational costs, […] More

NASA has partnered with cloud services provider InfoZen to migrate several of the space agency’s public-facing websites and applications to a cloud computing environment. InfoZen moved 110 online NASA portals into an Amazon Web Services-powered, open-source content management platform within 22 weeks under the NASA WESTPrime web migration contract, InfoZen said Wednesday. “WESTPrime provides a […] More

Businesses should strategically think through cloud technology options before making an investment, Kevin King, director of corporate communications at Verizon Enterprise, wrote in a Wednesday blog post. King says that enterprise resource planning applications for financial and supply chain management account for a large percentage of cloud deployments and such investing behavior will likely to continue going […] More

The U.S. Defense Department has been gradually switching from physical information systems to a software-based virtual infrastructure, VMware executive Bill Rowan writes in a Defense Systems opinion piece. Rowan, vice president of VMware’s DoD team, says the shift is driven by the current fiscal environment as well as federal data center consolidation and desktop virtualization initiatives. “Today, […] More

SoftLayer has announced the opening of a new data center in Toronto as part of the IBM cloud company’s $1.2 billion investment to expand its presence worldwide. According to SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby, there is a need to provide a local facility for the growing number of Canadian enterprises that require cloud service solutions. “We […] More