Cloud computing
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The contract, worth $1 billion over five years, goes to Dell, General Dynamics and Microsoft to run an Air Force implementation of Microsoft's Office 365.
September 21, 2017 -
The University of Maryland University College wants to fill a void with a new Master’s program in cloud architecture and management.
August 31, 2017 -
Moving any enterprise to the cloud presents new challenges, particularly as data is moved off-premises. Over the last seven-plus years, agencies have faced many of those challenges as they decided what type of services in the cloud to implement.
August 11, 2017 -
The Defense Department is taking a new look at the rules it applies to contracts with commercial cloud computing providers. The Pentagon's acting CIO wants staff to examine whether vendors' own security controls could replace DoD's requirement for government-operated cloud access points.
June 20, 2017 -
Simply by hosting their tracking application — whether a giant spreadsheet or a real database — in a cloud, BLM officials could establish a framework for uniformity and thoroughness.
May 15, 2017 -
Army says commands have already issued several RFPs under new contract vehicle for cloud services, migration.
April 25, 2017 -
China and the United States have been in the race to develop the most capable supercomputer. China has announced that its exascale computer could be released sooner than originally planned. Steve Conway, VP for high performance computing at IDC, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for analysis.
February 09, 2017 -
The project, known as the Army Private Cloud Enterprise, represents the first time the Army has contracted with a private company to run a large-scale data center inside the gates of a military installation.
October 14, 2016 -
The Navy released a request for information flagging cloud computing as one of the IT domains that it may break apart from the next NGEN contract — expected to be awarded to a new vendor or vendors sometime next year.
July 25, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal headlines, new rules help gov't hire more small business subcontractors, and GAO warns DoD and the VA don't have a solid plan for e-record interoperability.
July 15, 2016 -
Dan Katz, technical director for the public sector at Acquia, makes the case for cloud platforms and open source software for digital experience management as a way for agencies to more easily and quickly migrate to a digital environment.
June 20, 2016 -
Intelligence agencies open doors to long-awaited cloud marketplace, invite analysts and developers to tinker with commercial technologies.
April 27, 2016 -
DoD’s chief information officer and his counterparts from several friendly nations will meet in the United Kingdom for the latest in a series of meetings that have been ongoing for the past year.
April 22, 2016 -
The Defense Department is taking a serious look at overhauling its process for accrediting commercial cloud computing products as secure-enough for military use.
April 11, 2016 -
Within the next month, the Navy expects to issue a request for proposals to support a new concept it’s calling the “Cloud Store.”
March 28, 2016