Government Cloud

Cylance has been authorized as a federal cloud systems inspection body and holds the status of third-party assessment organization for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. Cylance obtained the accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory after a demonstration of the company’s technical compliance for FedRAMP, Cylance said Monday. “We are proud to have […] More

Razorsight CEO Charlie Thomas believes communications service providers have an opportunity to position themselves as key players in the cloud market by utilizing insight and infrastructure to meet user needs. Thomas told VanillaPlus magazine that CSPs can leverage cloud app-driven data and predictive analytics to gain knowledge on cloud user needs and behaviors. “I think CSPs are […] More

Hewlett-Packard will offer CenturyLink’s set of information technology platforms and services to its commercial clients as part of an agreement with the latter company. The HP PartnerOne for Service Provider Program deal allows HP clients to choose, purchase and use CenturyLink’s big data, managed hosting, cloud, storage and colocation offerings to help manage cloud-based data infrastructure, CenturyLink said Thursday. […] More

Infosys has begun to offer the company’s suite of software services on Verizon Enterprise‘s cloud offerings in a software-as-a-service model. Financial clients in the U.S. will have access to Infosys’ Finacle suite via Verizon Cloud, Verizon said Thursday. Infosys has deployed Finacle Core Banking, Finacle e-Banking and Finacle Mobile Banking on Verizon’s managed cloud infrastructure. […] More

IBM has integrated Nvidia’s dual graphics processing unit boards with its cloud-based SoftLayer bare metal servers in an effort to help companies manage analytics and big data workloads in a cloud environment. IBM said Wednesday customers will now be able to use Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators on its IBM Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform to handle […] More

International Data Corp. has released a new report that forecasts cloud information technology infrastructure spending to account for 46.5 percent of overall IT infrastructure spending by 2019. IDC said Monday the projected $54.6 billion in cloud IT infrastructure spending by 2019 would represent a compound annual growth rate of 15.6 percent from 2015 through 2019. “The breadth and width of […] More

International Data Corp. reports that the global cloud IT infrastructure market achieved a 25.1-percent year-over-year growth in sales revenue to reach $6.3 billion in the first quarter. IDC said Thursday spending also grew from 26.4 percent of overall first-quarter IT infrastructure spending last year to almost 30 percent this year. The growth is due to increasing demand […] More

Deltek has found that 38 cloud computing platforms from industry are certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to date. Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek, writes in a blog post published Tuesday that vendors provide their FedRAMP-compliant offerings to government clients using infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service delivery models. Eighteen cloud […] More

Hitachi Consulting has partnered with AT&T to offer a cloud computing service for enterprise client applications through AT&T’s partner exchange program. AT&T will also support a Hitachi Data Systems-powered framework meant to help organizations adopt cloud technology, Hitachi Consulting said Monday. “By collaborating with Hitachi Consulting, we will help them accelerate their customers’ adoption of […] More

Law enforcement agencies in California and North Carolina have started to adopt Microsoft’s cloud platform due to the offering’s compliance with the security regulations of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services. The Los Angeles Police Department and North Carolina-based Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are among the agencies that access fingerprint files, surveillance videos and other criminal […] More

IBM has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission to host federal workloads in the company’s Softlayer cloud environment, Nextgov reported Thursday. Frank Konkel writes IBM’s Ashburn, Virginia and Richardson, Texas-based data centers received the FCC’s authorization to run government applications. “IBM’s federal cloud business has reached another milestone as we continue to work with federal agencies […] More

Capgemini has won a contract of an undisclosed value to help U.K.-based Manchester Airports Group to build, implement and run an enterprise resource planning system through summer 2016. MAG seeks to integrate multiple business applications and functions across its network of four airports through the project, Capgemini said Thursday. The information technology firm plans to […] More