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    Nutanix Names Sean McLaughlin Civilian Sales Director

    Nutanix has appointed Sean McLaughlin to oversee the growth efforts of the company’s federal civilian agency business as director for civilian sales. McLaughlin’s new role entails collaborating with customers and industry partners to utilize the enterprise cloud platform toward a shared services strategy, targeting Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scores and building up data center environments, Nutanix said […] More

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    DLT, SimpliVity Forge Data Center Consultation Partnership for Federal Agencies

    DLT Solutions has partnered with hyperconverged infrastructure company SimpliVity in an effort to help federal agencies manage and operate their data centers. The alliance will work to unite all IT infrastructure and services below the hypervisor level and help organizations take control of their networks through virtualized workload protection, DLT said Tuesday. Brian Strosser, DLT’s chief operating officer, said […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    BeyondTrust to Share IT Risk Mgmt Tool Under FireEye-Led Cyber Coalition; Ed Barry Comments

    BeyondTrust has joined a FireEye-led coalition in an effort to help government and commercial clients detect and respond to potential cyber attacks. BeyondTrust will work to integrate its BeyondInsight IT Risk Management Platform with the FireEye-built Global Threat Management Platform under the cybersecurity coalition, BeyondTrust said Monday. “The growing complexity of cybersecurity and protecting against […] More

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    CenturyLink Eyes Content Delivery, VPN Support Task Orders Under DISA GNS Contract; Tim Meehan Comments

    CenturyLink plans to compete for task orders to provide wireless network transport support services outside the continental U.S. under the potential 10-year, $4.3 billion Global Network Services contract the Defense Information Systems Agency awarded in December. The company said Thursday it is authorized to submit bids for virtual private networks, Wi-Fi, network security, software-defined networking, cloud, colocation, […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Summit Consulting Lands FHA Risk Mgmt Analytics Contract; Edward Seiler Comments

    Summit Consulting has been awarded a five-year, $19.5 million contract to perform risk-management analytics work for the Federal Housing Administration’s single-family mortgage insurance programs. The company will use cloud-based modeling and reporting platforms to help FHA monitor its single-family mortgage portfolio, Summit Consulting said Wednesday. Edward Seiler, director of mortgage finance at Summit Consulting, said […] More

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    Microsoft, AWS, CSRA Near FedRAMP High Baseline Certifications for Cloud Platforms

    Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and CSRA are in the process of securing high baseline certifications for their cloud platforms under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Federal Times reported March 21. Aaron Boyd writes the cloud service providers are scheduled to receive their authorizations in April following their involvement in a pilot program that seeks […] More

  • in C4ISR News, News

    BlackBerry Expands Networked Crisis Comms Platform Availability in Europe; Guy Miasnik Comments

    A BlackBerry business unit has expanded its networked crisis communications platform in Europe in an effort to support public safety. AtHoc has made its platform available in Europe to address the need for secure communications for the cloud-based exchange of data in support of life safety and business continuity, the company said Tuesday. AtHoc President Guy Miasnik said the […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Acquia Obtains FedRAMP Authority to Operate From Treasury Dept

    Acquia has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authority-to-operate designation from the Treasury Department to offer two of the company’s cloud services in the public sector. Boston-based Acquia company said Monday it will provide its Acquia Cloud Enterprise and Acquia Cloud Site Factory to agencies in a suite of cloud services designed to feature layers of firewall, multi-factor authentication, vulnerability management, security incident response, […] More

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    Exclusive: NTT Data & Dell Federal Services Leaders Detail Post-Combination Market Strategy

    The government technology and professional services market received a new layer to its mergers-and-acquisition landscape Monday upon the news that the system integration subsidiary of Tokyo-based Nippon Telegraph and Telephone will purchase Dell’s services business for $3.05 billion. Through the deal, Dell’s federal government services business will combine with the similar unit inside NTT Data in a move executives at both […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    DoD Seeks Cyber Platforms Through Solutions Meeting

    The Defense Department will hold a meeting in Washington between June and July 2016 to allow potential contractors to deliver technical presentations about their cyber platforms. DoD said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday it will conduct the Cyber Strategy Solutions Meeting to identify cyber tools that might qualify for experimentation and pilot projects. The department […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Interior Dept Selects eGlobalTech for Cloud Transition Services

    eGlobalTech has secured a five-year contract from the Interior Department to help implement a cloud-based Drupal platform that will work to support the agency’s website management consolidation effort. The project will employ the government-targeted content management system OpenPublic to help DOI’s existing websites transition onto a consolidated web content management platform, eGlobalTech said Tuesday. DOI seeks to optimize user engagement of its […] More