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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Learn about the latest technologies that drive the rapid adoption of cloud services by the public sector. This section focuses on offerings for public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments specifically tailored for federal agencies.
SAP has launched three new products that work to leverage the computing, analytics and event processing functions of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform to support the Internet of Things. “The Internet of Things has the potential to dramatically improve responsiveness of businesses, reimagine customer experience and open up new opportunities and brand new business models such as […] More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has asked industry for ideas and responses to a request for information on a public cloud computing setup the agency is interested in. NOAA says in the RFI released Friday that vendors should outline configurations, pricing and other characteristics in the service areas of virtual machines, storage services, network bandwidth […] More
Unisys has won a contract to deploy a cloud computing platform meant to help U.K. police forces manage public safety incidents and collaborate on intelligence activities. The company said Wednesday it will provide the U.K.’s Police Service with a cloud-based version of the firm’s Home Office Large Major Enquiry System for managing criminal investigations. HOLMES […] More
Deloitte and Dell have formed a partnership to deliver products that work to help develop an information technology infrastructure focused on customer experience and drive patient outcomes through automation and healthcare technologies. The companies said Wednesday they will combine Deloitte’s CloudMix and Dell’s cloud, security and Dell One identity access management offerings through the Dell Boomi cloud integration platform. They will […] More
Verizon Enterprise Solutions has secured Department of Health and Human Services authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to deploy its cloud platform for the public sector. Kevin Irland, a corporate communications manager at the company, writes Thursday that the authority to operate is for its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offering. The report said Verizon intends to leverage the […] More
Software AG has unveiled a business-process-analysis-as-a-service tool that works to provide process documentation, analysis and optimization functions via private and public cloud to help organizations address emerging business and market needs. The company said Thursday the ARIS Cloud offering is available in basic, advanced and enterprise versions via Amazon Web Services based on the scale of implementation of process improvement efforts. Wolfram […] More
Autonomic Resources‘ cloud platform has passed the Defense Department‘s impact level five assessment for the agency’s cloud security model. Veris Group conducted the evaluation process on Autonomic Resources’ 68 new security controls against DoD’s requirements, Autonomic Resources said Wednesday. “The additional security controls applied to ARC-P to gain DoD approval are also applied to all civilian agencies’ infrastructures,” said John […] More
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
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a potential three-year, $48.6 million task order to a ManTech International subsidiary for a cloud computing infrastructure and migration services. 7Delta will deliver a cloud setup to the VA for the department to access information technology infrastructure services, ManTech said Wednesday. ManTech said 7Delta will migrate all parts […] More
A new forecast from International Data Corp. predicts public information technology cloud services spending will grow to more than $127 billion in 2018 from the $56.6 billion projected for 2014. That IT cloud spending growth represents more than 50 percent of software, server and storage spending worldwide in 2018, IDC said Monday. “Over the next four to five years, IDC expects the […] More
Siki Giunta, senior vice president for global cloud business at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company aims to be a top provider of cloud computing products and services in the international market, Fortune magazine reported Thursday. “We want to be a global player,†Giunta told the magazine. Katherine Noyes writes Giunta is responsible for helping […] More
Xerox has released an update of its Maven outbreak management software that works to host contact-tracing data on communicable diseases such as Ebola and other public health information in a cloud platform. The company said Thursday that Maven leverages data and analytics to track the path of infection or exposure to disease and facilitates data sharing and integration between public […] More
