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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.
IBM has moved to expand its storage software offerings through the addition of new cloud backup features to the company’s portfolio. Customers will work to back up data to on-premises storage or the cloud with the new features for the IBM Spectrum Protect software, IBM said Wednesday. IBM will release the Spectrum Protect as a VersaStack service […] More
NTT Communications has introduced a fresh cloud access offering in an effort to help address challenges in cloud adoption. Multi-Cloud Connect is designed to provide access to third-party public cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services through NTT’s multiprotocol label switching network, NTT said Wednesday. A feature on NTT’s Arcstar Universal One service, […] More
QTS and Vion have partnered to jointly deliver federally-approved public and hybrid cloud service offerings in the U.S. government sector. The companies aim to help customer agencies lower total cost of ownership, increase utilization rate and accelerate deployment of cloud-based systems designed to comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Vion said Tuesday. […] More
Windstream has signed up for Hewlett-Packard’s team of managed service providers — the HP PartnerOne program — in a move to deliver cloud services to clients. Windstream will offer private cloud, backup as a service and replication as a service to small, medium and enterprise clients, Windstream said Tuesday. “Windstream’s IT as-a-Service provides our joint […] More
Microsoft has received additional federal certifications for its Azure Government cloud computing platform after evaluations of the product’s data security features for U.S. public sector organizations. Tom Keane, partner director for Microsoft Azure program management, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the platform obtained a moderate provisional authority-to-operate status under the Federal Risk and Authorization […] More
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is requesting information about potential providers of a software-as-a-service platform designed for contact center operations. IRS said Aug. 10 in a FedBizOpps notice that it seeks a vendor who can deliver SaaS that complies with the agency’s information technology security and data privacy policies. The agency also wants to know […] More
CorasCloud has made its application development tool available on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region to help U.S. government clients design, build and implement cloud computing apps. The AppDev tool is also designed to help organizations transfer apps to an infrastructure-as-a-service provider without having to reconfigure them, CorasCloud said Tuesday. “Our goal is to provide every option […] More
Information technology staff at health organizations should craft risk management policies and adopt security measures to secure medical data in a private cloud platform, two chief technologists at Lockheed Martin wrote in a GCN article published Wednesday. Mahesh Kalva and Andrew Underhill said health care IT personnel must carry out certain measures such as penetration auditing, firewall […] More
Ray Harris, chief information officer at Iron Bow Technologies, has said that most corporate CIOs focus on the operational aspect when purchasing and managing information technology systems in an effort to leverage the Internet of Things. Harris advised CIOs to conduct pilot testing of IoT-based projects to determine their capabilities before they launch large-scale programs, Iron Bow’s TechSource […] More
Oracle has introduced new cloud-based retail science and retail analytics services in an effort to help retailers extract insights from data. Retail organizations will be able to allocate product sale in multiple stores and oversee the way products are displayed, marketed and priced, Oracle said Wednesday. “Oracle retail science cloud services and retail insights cloud […] More
A new report from International Data Corp. projects the global market for public cloud platforms to reach $70 billion this year as commercial enterprises in different industries look for services to manage their operations. The company said Tuesday banking, process and discrete manufacturing, retail and professional services are among the industries to represent nearly half of the […] More
SAP National Security Services — a U.S.-based subsidiary of the German software and technology conglomerate — and Virtustream have partnered to deliver standards-compliant cloud services to federal agency clients. SAP NS2 will help agencies with migrations of applications into managed and secure cloud platforms in an effort to comply with the government-wide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the companies said […] More
