Government Cloud

CGI has unveiled a new records management platform meant to help government agencies meet the White House’s target dates for the government-wide electronic records management modernization directive. The company said Monday its Records Management as a Service offering is based on OpenText‘s Content Suite platform and Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud computing system. CGI added it designed RMaaS to meet the Defense Department‘s electronics records […] More

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

ReportBuyer has released a new report that predicts the gobal military information technology, data and computing market will hit $80.5 billion by 2026 from $62.9 billion in 2016. The growing demand for cloud-based infrastructure will drive the market during the forecast period to a compound annual growth rate of 2.50 percent, ReportBuyer said Wednesday. The […] More

InfoReliance has received Amazon Web Services‘ AWS Government Competency certification in eight customer markets for compliance with AWS standards in workload and application deployment on the Amazon cloud platform. Fairfax, Virginia-based InfoReliance said Friday it utilizes best practices and lessons from various industries to support accelerated AWS adoption for customers. InfoReliance is an AWS audited managed service partner, advanced consulting partner and […] More

Carahsoft Technology and Pixlogic are included in a list of vendors authorized to market cloud-based products and services to the U.S. intelligence community via an Amazon Web Services-run online marketplace. Carahsoft will offer Pixlogic-made image and video automated search software piXserve to 17 IC agencies through the AWS Marketplace as Pixlogic’s government distributor, Pixlogic said Thursday. The platform is designed to […] More

Esri has pledged $500,000 to a White House initiative that seeks to exclude low-risk offenders from the criminal justice system with the use of technology platforms. The company said Thursday it seeks to help law enforcement officials to identify rehabilitation programs available to non-dangerous offenders through the ArcGIS geographic information system software. “Using ArcGIS, law enforcement, health departments […] More

HyTrust has worked with the National Institute of Science and Technology and industry partners Intel, RSA and VMware to create the NIST IR 7904 and a proof-of-concept designed to allow secured geolocation in cloud computing environments. Trusted geolocation functions work to monitor the deployment and execution of virtual machines or a workload with reliance on security provided by a Trusted Platform Module […] More

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

NEC Corp. has selected Iron Mountain‘s underground western Pennsylvania data center to serve as primary colocation provider of the former’s private cloud and operations service. Iron Mountain said Tuesday that its facility has been selected to support SAP HANA for its comprehensive compliance support and security, federal-ready services as well as its data center marketplace and cloud services provider […] More

Qualys Inc. has received Federal Risk and Authorized Management Program compliance certification for the company’s cloud platform following a security review by a third-party assessor. The certification, which Qualys earned through the Cloud Service Provider Supplied Package process, serves as a go-signal for federal civilian, military and intelligence agencies to leverage security and compliance cloud services from the company, Qualys said […] More

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

Amazon Web Services has recognized Fairfax, Virginia-based technology company InfoReliance for work to help government customers run workloads and applications on AWS’ cloud platform. InfoReliance achieved the AWS Government Competency status based on AWS cloud services to federal civilian and defense agencies, InfoReliance said Monday. John Sankovich, InfoReliance executive vice president for cloud solutions, said the designation recognizes […] More