Government Cloud

Eighty-three percent of 150 federal information technology managers who responded to a MeriTalk survey believe that adopting cloud technology and updating networks would help agencies address missions over the next five years. MeriTalk said Monday the study, jointly underwritten by Riverbed Technology and Tech Data‘s government solutions business, also found that 98 percent of federal IT […] More

IBM has unveiled an open source platform designed to help organizations manage workloads and applications across multiple cloud computing systems. The company said Monday its Multicloud Manager includes a dashboard where users can oversee businesses, security and governance processes through various cloud systems from different providers. The technology is designed to run on IBM’s Cloud Private […] More

InterSystems has started to offer a unified data platform on Microsoft‘s Azure Marketplace to help customers build and implement cloud-based information technology applications. The IRIS Data Platform is designed to manage workloads, process transactions and analyze data, InterSystems said Friday. Microsoft created Azure Marketplace for organizations to access certified cloud-based IT products. “To keep pace with continuously evolving market […] More

Juniper Networks and Nutanix have extended their partnership to help enterprise customers migrate information technology applications to multicloud computing platforms. Both companies will combine offerings that work to manage virtual workloads and secure enterprise cloud environments through a microsegmentation approach, Juniper said Wednesday. Bikash Koley, chief technology officer at Juniper, said the company plans to integrate […] More

CenturyLink has introduced an offering meant to help enterprise customers connect across hybrid cloud workloads through a portal or an application program interface integration method. The Cloud Connect Dynamic Connections service is intended to link CenturyLink’s fiber network of public and private data centers and on-net enterprise facilities to multiple cloud service providers, the company said Tuesday. The communications […] More

Julia White, corporate vice president for Microsoft Azure, has said Microsoft will launch new Azure Government cloud regions by the end of the first quarter of 2019 to allow the Defense Department and intelligence agencies to manage Secret-level classified data. White wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the company plans to expand the […] More

QTS Realty Trust has chosen Cohesity to power cloud-based managed backup services intended to help clients simplify data security processes. The QTS Managed Backup offering uses hyperconverged technology to protect and recover files and applications through a single web-scale platform, the company said Wednesday. QTS engineers will monitor and track security issues for customers of the backup platform designed […] More

FireEye‘s cloud-based email security offerings have received certifications from Schellman & Company and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The enterprise cybersecurity company said Tuesday its Email Security Cloud Edition obtained International Organization for Standardization 27001:2013 certification and Service Organization Controls Type 2 recertification for security and confidentiality. The platform is designed to block potentially […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks input from industry, academia and the general public on the advantages of open access to data through NOAA’s Big Data Project collaborators. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says NOAA will collect and use feedback to determine end user needs as well as the impact of agency data across the marketplace. […] More