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  • FedRAMP Board Issues Provisional ATO to 20 AWS Cloud Services
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    FedRAMP Board Issues Provisional ATO to 20 AWS Cloud Services

    Amazon Web Services has obtained provisional Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board to offer 20 cloud services to government agencies. AWS said Monday the new provisional authority-to-operate at the “Moderate” baseline will centralize the maintenance for the P-ATO of 10 AWS services that are previously authorized and add 10 new […] More

  • Mojo Networks Clears FedRAMP Security Assessment Phase
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    Mojo Networks Clears FedRAMP Security Assessment Phase

    Mojo Networks has completed a security assessment report required to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification. Mountain View, California-based Mojo said Monday it selected Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to evaluate the cloud WiFi service provider against the FedRAMP Moderate baseline and submit the results in a security assessment report. Mojo Networks CEO Rick Wilmer […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Deploy Container-as-a-Service at FDA for ‘Cloud First’ Compliance
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Deploy Container-as-a-Service at FDA for ‘Cloud First’ Compliance

    A Koniag subsidiary has secured a five-year, $19 million contract to aid an office of the Food and Drug Administration in its initiatives to comply with the government’s Cloud First policy. Arlluk Technology Solutions will furnish FDA’s Office of Information Management and Technology with a cloud-based container-as-a-service platform to enable the Department of Health and Human Services agency […] More

  • Coras’ SaaS-Based Application Platform Gets FedRAMP Ready Status
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    Coras’ SaaS-Based Application Platform Gets FedRAMP Ready Status

    Coras has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Ready designation for a software-as-a-service platform designed to help agencies move applications to a cloud environment. The company said Friday it demonstrated the CorasNow Federal application platform’s capacity to meet technical requirements under FedRAMP. Dan Naselius, president and chief technology officer of Coras, said the company aims to assist customers in efforts […] More

  • GSA Adds Nutanix Hyperconverged Cloud Platforms to Carahsoft’s IT Schedule 70 Contract
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    GSA Adds Nutanix Hyperconverged Cloud Platforms to Carahsoft’s IT Schedule 70 Contract

    The General Services Administration-led Enterprise Software Category Team has selected Nutanix and Carahsoft to offer hyperconverged cloud infrastructure platforms to government agencies via GSA’s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. Nutanix can use Carahsoft’s position under IT Schedule 70 to deliver 10 HCI products designed to help agencies simplify their data centers and modernize their information technology infrastructure, GSA said Friday. […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Steve Harris: Cloud Tech Could Aid in Federal IT Cybersecurity
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    Dell EMC’s Steve Harris: Cloud Tech Could Aid in Federal IT Cybersecurity

    Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC‘s federal business, has said the adoption of on-premise and hybrid cloud platforms can help government agencies comply with security best practices and access information technology services in the event of catastrophes. Harris wrote in a MeriTalk article published Tuesday that such cloud environments could also […] More

  • Accenture Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization for Cloud-Based Analytics Platform
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    Accenture Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization for Cloud-Based Analytics Platform

    Accenture‘s federal services business has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board for a platform-as-a-service cloud offering. The Accenture Insights Platform for Government is a cloud-based tool that works to provide agencies with analytics, data access and visualization functionalities to help accelerate the development and deployment of analytics-driven platforms, […] More

  • DISA, Army Tap Industry for Mobile Device Cloud Integration Efforts
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    DISA, Army Tap Industry for Mobile Device Cloud Integration Efforts

    The Defense Information Systems Agency and the U.S. Army have partnered with companies to integrate commercial cloud technology into mobile devices in efforts to increase data accessibility and security for warfighters, Defense Systems reported Friday. Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn, director of DISA, told Defense Systems the agency seeks to extend the U.S. military’s Secret Internet Protocol Router […] More

  • FedRAMP Solicits Industry Feedback on Govt Cloud Security Requirements
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    FedRAMP Solicits Industry Feedback on Govt Cloud Security Requirements

    The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program office has published a request for information to gather industry feedback on the U.S. government’s process to buy cloud technology platforms and inclusion of security requirements in contract language. FedRAMP said Thursday it partnered with the General Services Administration‘s Secure Cloud Portfolio team to explore strategies to standardize language in commercial cloud contracts […] More

  • eGlobalTech to Help Migrate FEMA Emergency Warning System to Cloud
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    eGlobalTech to Help Migrate FEMA Emergency Warning System to Cloud

    eGlobalTech has been chosen to support IBM in a project to migrate the Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s integrated public alert and warning system to Amazon Web Services cloud technology. IPAWS is designed to help federal, state, territorial, tribal and local authorities inform communities in the event of a critical situation, eGT said Thursday. eGT has previously helped transition FEMA emergency management […] More

  • Rescale to Support HPE, SGI Servers on HPC Hybrid On-Premises and Cloud Platform
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    Rescale to Support HPE, SGI Servers on HPC Hybrid On-Premises and Cloud Platform

    Rescale‘s high performance computing platform will begin to support both HPE and SGI servers to help clients access and oversee a hybrid environment that features cloud and on-premises systems in a unified platform. Rescale said Thursday it will team up with Advania, FedCentric and the HPE Cloud28+ community to develop a hybrid HPC cloud environment […] More

  • Red Hat, Radiance Partner on Air Force Cloud Migration Project; Paul Smith Comments
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    Red Hat, Radiance Partner on Air Force Cloud Migration Project; Paul Smith Comments

    Radiance Technologies has partnered with Red Hat to deliver a scalable cloud platform to the Defense Department. Radiance used Red Hat’s hybrid cloud offering to help a U.S. Air Force organization transition workloads to a scalable cloud infrastructure under a task order with DoD, Red Hat said Tuesday. Red Hat Cloud Suite is designed to […] More