From: Gigaom
It’s three weeks into 2015 and here’s the first cloud deal of the year: Managed service provider Datapipe is buying GoGrid, an infrastructure-as-a-service vendor that has been morphing into a big data specialist. Terms were not disclosed, but the deal indicates that
the consolidation that swept the cloud provider market in 2014 continues, as some predicted.
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Newvem was a strategic acquisition to gain expertise in analyzing and optimizing AWS, as Datapipe provides managed AWS services. “We saw the explosion of data that AWS usage generates required a big data tool to understand it and Layered Tech
was about expanding into the federal government market — they had FISMA and provisional FedRAMP compliance and we expect ot be fully FedRAMP compliant shortly. That will let us bring managed AWS to federal accounts,” Sowell said.
FISMA, or the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, is a framework for protecting government information and operations against natural or man-made threats while FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) is a standard way to vet or approve cloud computing deployments. AWS achieved its FedRAMP certification about two years ago.
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