The National Institute of Standards and Technology is set to host a three-day cloud computing forum in June to discuss how cloud can be more interoperable, portable and secure. NIST will host the Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop V at Commerce’s headquarters in June, GCN reports.. Government executives from Asia, Europe and North America will [...]
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Autonomic Resources is now a certified Red Hat partner and cloud solutions provider to the federal market, Autonomic announced Tuesday. Paul Smith, Red Hat’s public sector business vice president and general manager, said the companies have previously partnered to produce solutions such as Enterprise Linux, Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Smith said the addition [...]
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Earlier this year, the Army awarded a $250 million contract to assist with the elimination of 185 data centers by 2015. The move correlates with the Army’s goal of centralizing centers in fewer locations and maximizing potential of computing power and storage, Defense System reports. Lockheed Martin, HP Enterprise Services, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman [...]
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Computer Sciences Corp. has launched a service program to help customers migrate their business applications to a secure and private cloud infrastructure, the company announced Tuesday. CSC’s Foundation Services for Oracle will utilize Oracle hardware and software products for the migration. The Falls Church, Va.-based company said it will provide storage, virtualization software, servers, databases, [...]
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Former Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra joined social cloud company Salesforce in January and is now championing a move into social government, according to NextGov. Kundra, now Salesforce’s executive vice president of emerging markets, said cloud computing is no longer a debate. Kundra said most are moving toward a cloud infrastructure. Kundra said the next [...]
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Microsoft is letting its federal customers choose between Office 365 public or private cloud solutions, Microsoft‘s U.S. public sector vice president Curt Kolcun announced Thursday. Kolcun said in a blog post that cloud comes in a variety of forms for a variety of functions, similar to how agencies use them. The Agriculture Department moved 120,000 users to [...]
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NJVC Paper Outlines Potential Benefits of Custom Cloud Software; Kevin Jackson Comments
February 1, 2012 8 CommentsFederal agencies that use platform-as-a-service in their cloud computing strategy can cut development costs by 50 percent, according to a recently released white paper by NJVC and Virtual Global. In “Platform as a Service (PaaS): What Is It? Why Is It So Important?,” authors Kevin Jackson and Cary Landis outline why they believe PaaS is the [...]
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Computer Sciences Corporation recently released its infrastructure-as-a-service CloudCompute for Government system, which the company says is designed exclusively for U.S. federal agencies and government personnel. The company said the multi-tenant community cloud was built under National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines. “This cloud offering addresses the federal agencies’ need to comply with security mandates and positions [...]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has moved its email system to cloud-based Google Apps for Government, Google announced Wednesday. Kennith Jackson, deployment manager at Google Apps, wrote in a blog post that it took six months to move NOAA’s 25,000 employees, contractors and associates to the new email platform. NOAA CIO Joseph Klimavicz said [...]
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HP Enterprise Services and Microsoft Corp. have announced a global, four-year initiative to deliver Microsoft’s communications and collaboration products via the public and private cloud. Through the public cloud, Microsoft will deliver its collaboration and productivity tool Microsoft Office 365. A Microsoft release said the companies’ cloud solutions will shift information technology from a capital [...]
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