Tag Archives: Cloud Computing

Unsealed court documents claim that the White House influenced the Department of Defense's selection of Microsoft over Amazon Web Services for the $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy is on a mission to ensure a strong market presence for the cloud computing company through expansion of its technology service offerings and partner ecosystem, CRN reported Tuesday.

David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT) North American public sector business, has said that open-source procedures can help organizations meet digital transformation goals while promoting mobility and addressing a skills gap.

Govplace has received a potential four-year, $109M blanket purchase agreement to provide commercial cloud hosting services to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The company said Monday USCIS will have access to a catalog of cloud providers that have been certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) has developed a suite of quantum computing services based on the Azure cloud platform. The company said Monday it partnered with Honeywell (NYSE: HON), 1QBit, QCI and IonQ to assemble software, hardware and other pre-built tools into Azure Quantum.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has selected Casepoint to provide a cloud-based technology platform designed to identify, collect and process legal data electronically.

Natalie Carey, former director of government solutions and executive vice president at Valiant Solutions, has joined Appian's federal civilian business as senior director, G2Xchange ETC reported Tuesday.

George Kamis, chief technology officer for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has said that government information technology professionals should adopt a user-centric approach to strengthen  cybersecurity as part of their agencies' digital transformation efforts.

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) VMware (NYSE: VMW) have partnered to make the latter’s software and services available on the Oracle cloud infrastructure.

The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center plans to award 15 spots on a $95M blanket purchase agreement with a five-year base period for cloud computing services to the military branch's cyber factory, Nextgov reported Tuesday.