{"id":9023,"date":"2013-10-01T03:35:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/oct\/01\/windows-azure-cloud-nails-fedramp-qualification-government-work-rise\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T03:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T03:35:13","slug":"windows-azure-cloud-nails-fedramp-qualification-government-work-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/windows-azure-cloud-nails-fedramp-qualification-government-work-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Azure cloud nails FedRAMP qualification, government work to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that its Windows Azure cloud infrastructure has been given the sought after FedRAMP accreditation for US federal cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>As the American government is trying to go &lsquo;cloud first&rsquo;, this represents an important milestone for Redmond &ndash; if perhaps a little late.<\/p>\n<p>Back in June, competitors HP and Amazon announced that their clouds were secure after gaining federal approval, joining the likes of Akamai, AT&amp;T and Lockheed Martin, with the first accreditation coming from Autonomic Resources back in December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Microsoft claims that, unlike those other vendors, theirs is the first public cloud platform to be credited with the more specific JAB P-ATO (Joint Authorisation Board Provisional Authority to Operate) &ndash; in other words, attaining competency for both IaaS and PaaS.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This not only opens the door for faster cloud adoption, but helps agencies move to the cloud in a more streamlined, cost-effective way,&rdquo; wrote Susie Adams &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that its Windows Azure cloud infrastructure has been given the sought after FedRAMP accreditation for US federal cloud computing.<br \/>\nAs the American government is trying to go &lsquo;cloud first&rsquo;, this represents an important&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}