Category: Cloud Computing

December 21, 2021

Even before the global pandemic tested governmental resiliency to its utmost, the federal government was moving toward transformation with its Cloud Smart and transformation mandates. But still, there’s much more work to do: The Government Accountability Office has identified 10 […]

December 17, 2021

It used to annoy me but now I think it’s funny. Every December my inbox gets stuffed with emails from PR firms that push predictions their clients make, hoping for a mention in a publication. I’ve lost count of how […]

December 14, 2021

I can tell when there is a public cloud outage because my phone blows up. It’s usually reporters who want quotes about the impact on businesses, ways to avoid the impact, and the likelihood that this is a forthcoming trend. […]

November 16, 2021

Informatica is expanding its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform with Cloud Data Marketplace, designed to allow employees within an organization to share ready-to-use data sets for use with AI and analytics models. The marketplace aims to let users contribute […]

November 12, 2021

Google wants to be a part of the next big Defense Department cloud contract. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, wrote in a blog post Nov. 11 that it should be considered alongside Microsoft and Amazon to compete for the […]

October 27, 2021

The United States federal government, much like in industry, is moving toward cloud adoption, Devsecops and microservices-based architectures for cloud-native applications. The National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST) is tasked with promoting innovation and providing standards and guidance to […]

October 12, 2021

Google has launched a new service group — the Google Cybersecurity Action Team — to provide strategic advisory, compliance, threat intelligence, and incident response services aimed at helping government and corporate clients tackle complex cybersecurity efforts, the company announced today […]

September 16, 2021

Google Cloud on Thursday introduced two new storage products, as well as an expansion of its Cloud Storage offering, to offer more resiliency and protection for customer data. The new services are Filestore Enterprise and Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine […]

September 14, 2021

As companies move more and more of their infrastructure to the cloud, they’re forced to shift their approach to security. The security controls you need to put in place for a cloud-based infrastructure are different from those for a traditional […]

August 16, 2021

Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of Azure Government Top Secret, a cloud service for government agencies that need to manage top-secret data. The offering is launching with more than 60 services and the promise of more to come […]