Cloud and Infrastructure

NSA’s secret Amazon-developed cloud environment progressing ‘very well’

The agency's $10 billion cloud program dubbed “WildandStormy" is benefiting from the intelligence community's dozen years of experience in commercial cloud, an AWS official said.

  • By Frank Konkel and David DiMolfetta

What's going on with DHS' enterprise cloud plan?

The Department of Homeland Security teased its plan for a 10-year enterprise cloud contract in the fall and then went relatively quiet. Based on previous cloud procurements, that could be a good thing.

  • By Carten Cordell

House reconciliation bill includes nearly $800 million for CISA

The funding supports the implementation of President Joe Biden's May executive order on cybersecurity and workforce development.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

ManTech, Google detail their cloud partnership

ManTech and Google are expanding their collaboration on digital transformation in government to further lean on the search giant's cloud offering.

  • By Ross Wilkers

How Teresa Carlson signed off from AWS and introduced her successor

Amazon's flagship cloud summit for public sector customers always begins with a keynote from Teresa Carlson and this year was her last, so she used the (virtual) stage with to pass the baton to her successor.

  • By Ross Wilkers

General Dynamics, Microsoft ink new cloud partnership pact

General Dynamics and Microsoft announce a new partnership involving the latter's Azure cloud offering and the classified regions for government agencies.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Bezos successor shows importance of cloud to Amazon's future

Jeff Bezos is stepping as CEO and his successor -- Amazon Web Services' own chief CEO Andy Jassy -- shows just how critical the cloud is to Amazon's future.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DISA, General Dynamics roll out AWS across milCloud 2.0

The Defense Information Systems Agency and General Dynamics introduce the first commercial cloud hosting service to be made available on the milCloud 2.0 platform.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Space becomes a new front in the 'Cloud Wars'

Microsoft is taking its flagship Azure offering further into a space sector that their direct competitor Amazon Web Services also has made a priority. It was all inevitable as the so-called Cloud Wars add another front.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Collaboration drives innovation for Octo and the National Cancer Institute

Speed was of the essence when NCI asked Octo and its partners to build a cloud-based image repository to support COVID-19 researchers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SAP NS2, Google form cloud integration partnership

SAP National Security Services and Google are partnering to bring integrated cloud computing and data offerings into the public sector.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DOD's cloud push proves that the innovation pyramid has flipped

The Defense Department's big-ticket cloud computing acquisitions show how the innovation pyramid has flipped and how the government has to follow the commercial world to get innovation.

  • By Ross Wilkers

SAP NS2, Amazon Web Services form cloud collaboration

SAP NS2 and Amazon Web Services will collaborate to help agencies transition workloads and other resources into a cloud computing environment.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Why DOD's JEDI cloud contract is a tight two-horse race

Amazon Web Services is the frontrunner to win the Defense Department's $10 billion "JEDI" cloud opportunity but here's why Microsoft presents more than formidable competition.

  • By Ross Wilkers

DISA plans major info systems network upgrade

DISA is planning a major bandwidth increase for the Defense Information Systems Network and the infrastructure that connects the various combatant commands.

  • By Nick Wakeman

CSRA moves milCloud 2.0 closer to going live

CSRA is eyeing Feb. 1 as the date to roll out the much-anticipated milCloud 2.0 computing infrastructure for the Defense Department.

  • By Ross Wilkers

GSA seeks bids for IT modernization Centers of Excellence

The solicitation covers start-up staffing needs for five separate teams to "manage centralized, function-specific talent, solutions and acquisition vehicles."

  • By Sara Friedman

DOD's massive cloud solution remains fluid

It is still an open question whether the Defense Department will go with a single provider for its massive cloud infrastructure project or open it to multiple providers.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Unisys books $10M National Archives Google cloud project

Unisys will help the National Archives implement a Google cloud email and collaboration system under a potential five-year, $10 million contract.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Raytheon joins Pivotal partner network in agile, modernization push

Raytheon becomes part of tech firm Pivotal's global partner network as the defense contractor further pushes into more agile development and modernization work.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Microsoft cloud infrastructure spend totals $1B per month

Microsoft's annual cloud infrastructure spend totals $1 billion a month in enterprise and heavily-restricted areas such as federal, the Azure GM tells a Washington Technology event audience.

  • By Ross Wilkers