CARY, NC — (Marketwire) — 01/11/12 — , a US Government Cloud Service Provider, (CSP) rings in the new year with an authority to operate (ATO) for its ARC-P cloud platform. The ATO provides assurance to government agencies that the stringent security standards required to credibly service the cloud first policy initiatives have been met.
Autonomic views the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) as a strategic partner in the adoption of “light” technologies, and credits the GSA-s Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS) as being the brave leader creating the contract vehicles that will bring cloud adoption by agencies into reality. “We were fully aware that GSA would set a high bar for achieving the required ATO-s. It has been a rigorous and all consuming process requiring the dedication of our entire team. CSP-s are finding out (the hard way) what works for commercial offerings won-t pass muster for Federal buyers. We are pleased GSA held firm on the stringent security standards required to move cloud first policies from wishful thinking to reality,” said John Keese, President of Autonomic Resources.
ARC-P is an elastic compute environment that meets the for what is considered “cloud computing.” In 2012 ARC-P will be leveraged for several new offerings that include Tivoli Endpoint Management as a Service with Mobile Device Management (MDM), Tivoli Identity Management as a Service, as well as a number of BigData initiatives including use of HPCC, Hadoop, MongoDB, Jaspersoft BI SaaS and Mulesoft ESB. “We have had several Federal agencies inquire regarding managed service from the cloud — some in the 700K+ endpoint count — demand is strong. Agencies are challenged with unprecedented budget reduction and at the same time are taking on larger missions. Cloud adoption allows agencies to re-adjust their costs from cap-ex to op-ex and re-negotiate software EULA-s and contract FTE counts. Cloud is enabling the transformation of -business as usual- in the federal contracting marketplace,” stated Keese.
Autonomic will support its ARC-P customers with a full DevOps team located in Washington DC, Atlanta GA, and Chicago IL. “Autonomic can support architecture through sustaining engineering for customer technology stack brought into the ARC-P cloud. A IaaS only platform was limited in our view therefore a DevOps support organization was seen as a necessary asset for the company to adequately support government agencies in the cloud,” stated Mark Lugert, VP of Emerging Technologies at Autonomic.
Autonomic will address high agency demand for email platform as a service with a strategic and unique offering. ARC-P will be the launch point for Microsoft Exchange and Autonomy “as a service.” Autonomic chose to utilize Microsoft Exchange within ARC-P as Exchange is the most common email platform within agencies. Exchange to Exchange migration will be much more cost effective for agencies, and allow government users to keep the email systems and features currently in place. The cost and risk associated with the migration to non-native email systems is avoided with Autonomic-s offering. Autonomy as a service — brings one of the most “feature-rich” e-discovery and archiving platforms and is known to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Sharepoint Workspace. The strategic partnership entered into with in 2011 has brought ARC-P a Microsoft and Autonomy professional services team that is unparalleled within the CSP industry.
Public Cloud provider and emerging technology integration services firm that works with the U.S. federal government. Autonomic is certified 8(a) SDB – Search GSA Schedule #GS-35F-0587R on and .
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