Oracle has announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-Government Cloud has achieved FedRAMP High Authorization to support government customers and data, the company reported on Tuesday.

“Government customers rely on Oracle Cloud to run their most critical workloads. With FedRAMP High and Impact Level 5 authorizations, we are able to support the highest levels of security standards for unclassified workloads across local, state, and federal government, as well as the Department of Defense,” said Scott Twaddle, vice president, Regulated Markets, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

With the authorization, Oracle will enable state, local and federal government customers using Oracle to modernize technology and meet increasing productivity goals and standards. In addition to the company’s government customers, more than 1,000 public sector organizations globally have utilized Oracle’s advanced technologies.

The company has reached the highest level of FedRAMP Authorization and DISA Impact Level 5 provisional (IL5 PATO) authorizations. The authorization will enable Oracle Cloud to provide government customers with the advanced standards of security necessary to protect the federal government’s data.

Oracle’s Government Cloud is ideal for mission-critical workloads like financials and other back office applications, as well as newer workloads such as simulations, machine learning and cloud native applications.

Oracle’s U.S. Government Cloud regions will also offer Oracle Cloud services, including compute (CPU and GPU virtual machine and bare metal), storage (block, object, and archive storage, including new immutable object storage capabilities), database and exadata cloud services, FastConnect, identity and access management, key management service and load balancer.

In addition to the FedRAMP High and IL5 PATO authorizations, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-Government Cloud has achieved a variety of certifications to advance security standards to its customers, including SOC, ISO, PCI, and HIPAA. The third-party assurance programs prove Oracle’s commitment to security of public sector customers.

Oracle’s Gen 2 Cloud was developed with a particular focus on addressing government cloud needs with capabilities including strong encryption, in-depth auditing and robust security controls and tools. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-Government Cloud will provide customers with advanced technology, including machine learning-enabled applications, integrated security tools, automated analytics and Oracle Autonomous Database.

“In addition, with sponsorship from a U.S. government agency, Oracle is in the process of providing several classified Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions to support the most sensitive workloads. This investment will soon bring the cost, performance, and security benefits of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to the defense and intelligence communities for our customers’ workloads at all classification levels,” Twaddle added.

Prior to Oracle’s announcement of the company’s FedRAMP High authorization, Oracle’s cloud applications recently achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization in Feb. 2020.

“FedRAMP Authorization for Oracle Cloud Applications is a critical step in meeting the growing demands and compliance requirements of our public sector customers,” said Tamara Greenspan, group vice president of Oracle’s public sector division.

Oracle will also enhance its cloud services and applications through achieving best-in-class security, high-end scalability, strong performance and advanced integration capabilities.

“By achieving this authorization, we are able to help the Federal Government tap into our complete and innovative cloud applications suite to not just keep pace, but stay ahead of the evolving business and technology landscape,” added Greenspan.

In addition to the FedRAMP Authorization, Oracle Cloud Applications has also achieved Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Department of Defense in November.

With IL4, Oracle can now offer its software as a service cloud suite to additional government agencies within the DoD community. Since the authorization was granted, the DoD has selected Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud to help transform its HR operations in support of 900K civilian employees.

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CentralSquare Technologies will provide complimentary use of select software solutions to its more than 5,000 public safety customers across the nation in support of national emergency response around the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced on Tuesday.

“It is a privilege to serve our customers who are on the frontlines battling a global pandemic,” said Dave Zolet, CEO of CentralSquare and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient. “Offering our relevant products on a complimentary basis is just one way we can help our first responders in this time of need.”

CentralSquare customers will provide the frontlines of responding to an unprecedented public health emergency. The company will offer complimentary access to key software applications to help reduce person-to-person interactions, enable agencies to share resources more easily and allow personnel to work from remote and offsite locations to responder customers.

The company’s software applications will continue to be offered on a complimentary basis through December 1, 2020. The offerings will include citizen reporting, utilizing CentralSquare P2C to enable the public to communicate directly with their law enforcement agencies and reduce face-to-face interactions.

CentralSquare will also supply field ops and freedom, which are mobile applications that enable personnel to work from remote and offsite locations, minimizing person-to-person exposure, and Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS).

DEMS and video camera data aggregation will provide officers, investigators and attorneys to use video from city or privately owned surveillance cameras to conduct investigations. Customers on any CentralSquare public safety software product will be offered online citizen reporting with no services or hosting fees.

Depending on the customer’s current software deployment, complimentary use of the mobile application covers license additions or entirely new implementations. DEMS and video camera data aggregation will be offered free of charge to customers who have qualifying systems.

In addition to these product offerings, CentralSquare will offer free training to help customers rapidly adapt their systems in lieu of COVID-19. An on-demand video library, including 911 call-taking training videos to help ramp up new team members, will be available for customers to help optimize their emergency response during the pandemic.

About CentralSquare

Formed by the merger of Superion, TriTech along with Zuercher, and the public sector and healthcare business of Aptean, CentralSquare is an industry leader in public safety and public administration software, serving over 7,650 organizations from the largest metropolitan city to counties and towns of every size across North America.

Its technology platform provides solutions for public safety, including 911, computer-aided dispatch, records management, mobile, citations, evidence management and corrections. For public administration agencies, CentralSquare provides software for finance, human capital management, payroll, utility billing, citizen engagement, asset management, regulatory compliance and community development. For hospitals and clinicians, it provides patient information, compliance, and analytics software. CentralSquare’s broad, unified and agile software suite serves 3 in 4 citizens across North America.

Quantum Corp. has been named Integrated Media Technologies (IMT) Global Partner of the Year in media and entertainment for achieving the highest revenue in annual sales among all of Quantum’s channel partners in FY2020, the company announced on Tuesday.

“IMT is a trusted extension of Quantum’s sales force, and for the second year in a row they have achieved top sales figures by demonstrating a command of the unique challenges media and entertainment companies face when managing video data,” said Jamie Lerner, President and CEO, Quantum.

IMT has brought expertise in media asset management and workflow consulting, pre-sales and sales. The company has also provided Quantum certified professional services and managed services. IMT saw notable success selling Quantum’s F-Series NVMe servers for editing, rendering and processing video content and other large unstructured data sets.

Quantum announced the F-Series, a new line of NVMe storage arrays designed for performance, availability and reliability in April 2019. The software has utilized non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash drives for ultra-fast reads and writes.

The solution has also supported parallel processing and is designed for studio editing, rendering, and other performance-intensive workloads utilizing large unstructured datasets. The F-Series NVMe servers have incorporated Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networking technology, the F-Series provides direct access between workstations and the NVMe storage devices, delivering predictable, fast network performance.

“Quantum’s commitment to innovation with their F-Series NVMe storage has been a key factor to IMT’s success this past year,” said Jason Kranitz, President, Systems Integration, IMT. “IMT shares in Quantum’s vision to focus on video, and together we have been able to win significant market share with customers in media, broadcast, post production, sports production, and corporate video.”

About Quantum

Quantum technology and services help customers capture, create and share digital content – and preserve and protect it for decades. With solutions built for every stage of the data lifecycle, Quantum’s platforms provide the fastest performance for high-resolution video, images, and industrial IoT. That’s why the world’s leading entertainment companies, sports franchises, researchers, government agencies, enterprises, and cloud providers are making the world happier, safer, and smarter on Quantum.