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BAE, Dell Partner For New Federal Cloud Solution

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

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BAE, Dell Partner For New Federal Cloud Solution

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BAE Systems and Dell [DVMT] EMC have partnered to offer the first scalable, hybrid cloud solution aimed at U.S. federal government customers. The companies’ new “federated secure cloud” solution meets Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement requirements and looks to take advantage of increasing agency-level IT modernization.“Our federated secure cloud is not just a modified commercial cloud environment for government use. It was designed from the start with high-assurance security in mind,” Al Whitmore, president of BAE’s intelligence & security sector,…

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