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Dr. Alan F. Castillo

Dr. Alan F. Castillo DevSecOps SME and AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect; promoting flexible and highly cost effective cloud computing services for DoD and Federal agencies using GSA 8(a) STARS II GWAC GS-06F-0787Z.

Cloud Security

DoD Security Requirements for Cloud

The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) 47QTCA23D000J contract facilitates an effective and powerful method of contracting for professional support services and helping small business involvement. The Navy encourages new innovative cloud industries to have a chance of accomplishing efficiency and effective use of cloud computing in maritime application. Further information available at DoD Security Requirements for Cloud. Cloud computing firms have been coming forward to develop comprehensive cloud computing technology processes while providing world class services at lower cost. However, there is a need to understand the protection requirements of cloud in military application. Security is best accomplished from a micro and macro approach, which includes building new security frameworks and enhancing existing secure frameworks, evaluating mission and risk, and systems integrity examinations. DoD Security Requirements for Cloud All DoD… Continue readingDoD Security Requirements for Cloud

Federal Cloud Native Systems Administrator

Cloud Systems Administrator

Cloud Systems Administrators for Federal Cloud Initiatives Castillo Technologies, LLC dba Cloud Computing Technologies provides cloud systems administrators for Federal Cloud Initiatives through our GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) 47QTCA23D000J Contract for cloud infrastructure design and implementation support. Cloud Systems Administrators manage any number of cloud virtual machines and hybrid cloud servers to perform duties including development of a cloud architecture framework, provisioning of cloud services, cloud instance maintenance, and cloud performance monitoring. Further information available at Cloud Systems Administrator. Cloud Systems Administrators deploy custom applications in production, test, and development cloud infrastructure keeping track of revision control following appropriate IT governance and security procedures. New cloud instances are compiled from the range of custom cloud server operating system stacks to the application layer. In addition, based on customer metrics,… Continue readingCloud Systems Administrator

SDVOSB

Agile Development GSA Schedule

Cloud computing with service disabled veteran owned small business firms on GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) 47QTCA23D000J gains advantages from experienced veteran business owners. Veterans who have served retain institutional service knowledge combined with best commercial practices with know-how for lowest but most effective solutions such as cloud computing, on a pre-existing contract vehicle, GSA 8a STARS II, the preferred choice for Naval departments. Further information available at Cloud Computing SDVOSB on GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) 47QTCA23D000J. Cloud Native Computing for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program The SDVOSB Program originated by the Veteran’s Benefit Act of 2003 to help Service-Disabled concerns in seeking Federal Contracts. Here, Subpart 19.14 of the FAR applies for the same. It has been noted that Presidential Executive Order 13360 fortified the Federal government’s dedication… Continue readingAgile Development GSA Schedule

Stars II Federal Cloud Service

Federal Cloud Computing Services

Federal Cloud Computing Services with GSA Multiple Award Schedule 47QTCA23D000J Cloud Computing Technologies provides federal cloud computing services to Federal Agencies as a cloud solutions provider. With partners having FedRAMP compliant cloud service provider (CSP), Amazon AWS, agencies will meet their cloud security requirements in storing, processing, and protecting any government data while gaining socio-economic credits. Through FedRAMP, agencies gain assurance of compliance of federal cloud computing services without having to conduct their own security review saving time and effort. Further information available at Federal Cloud Service Broker. The GSA 8(a) STARS II, a preferred contract procurement vehicle for Federal Cloud Services, permits a cloud facilities integrated IT solution with directed orders under $4.0 million, per FAR 19.804-6. Task orders may be configured in Fixed-Price, Time and Materials, Labor-Hour, or… Continue readingFederal Cloud Computing Services

DevSecOps Center of Excellence KPI

DevSecOps Center of Excellence for Software Security with Cloud Native Computing DevOps Training and DevSecOps Best Practices

DevSecOps Center of Excellence for DevOps Training of Cloud Native Computing with Software Security The almost universal trend of switching from a traditional waterfall-based Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to more contemporary agile approaches has made way for faster delivery of software products. Many organizations implement this new approach by splitting longer life cycles into smaller iterations but continue to repeat the same processes. While improving delivery times, this approach has also created more leeway for security issues to creep in. DevOps training has become the default solution to this issue which is becoming increasingly relevant in current times. It brings together development and operations teams so that their processes are not isolated from each other. This leads to products being more resilient because operations teams are more adept in… Continue readingDevSecOps Center of Excellence for Software Security with Cloud Native Computing DevOps Training and DevSecOps Best Practices

DoD Pentagon

DoD Priorities for Cloud Computing

The Department of Defense strategic initiatives are to develop a new course of action with devsecops, agile, and cloud computing, which will help military services and their missions, as a whole. This new direction will also engage commercial cloud services vendors, a pre-existing source, to immediately leverage commercial sector cloud innovations for DoD operations. Further information available at DoD Priorities for Cloud Computing. This new agile development in Military use of cloud computing, which has the potentials to optimize DoD operations, is a move toward collaboration and efficiency which helps the military to be more effective with mobile devices and other related cloud technology. DoD is ready to implement new cloud approaches to further progress these DoD priorities for cloud computing benefits. DoD priorities for Cloud Computing The key part… Continue readingDoD Priorities for Cloud Computing

Kubernetes advance Innovation

How does AWS Kubernetes advance Innovation with GSA Schedule government contracts?

How does AWS Kubernetes advance Innovation for Air Force Kubernetes with STARS II government contracts? Cloud services have revolutionized the way enterprises do business. Innovations have become common-place due to the capabilities offered by cloud technologies and the ease of adopting these to software development and enterprise business processes. In the 1990s and 2000s, many applications were monolithic and experienced long development cycles and quarterly or annual deployment cycles due to the difficulties of maintaining stability and post-deployment issues. Other issues included the giant tasks of managing on-premise physical servers, which could take from days to weeks to purchase and restore in case of failure. The introduction of Virtual Machines came as a welcome change which further reduced these deployment times down to the range of hours. Containers improved these… Continue readingHow does AWS Kubernetes advance Innovation with GSA Schedule government contracts?

Accelerate Cloud

Navy and Marine Corps accelerate cloud

The officials of the Navy and Marine Corps are looking for opportunities with agile DevSecOps and commercial cloud computing services to move more military data to commercial solutions. This process will help create a system in which they will be able to shift their public data to Amazon’s cloud. Further information available at Why the Navy and Marine Corps accelerate cloud adoption?. Reason for Navy and Marine Corps accelerate cloud The main reason of accelerating DevSecOps cloud adoption by the Navy and Marine Corps is to reduce more than a billion dollars in duplicative IT data center spending. The Navy and Marine Corps have been faced with federal budget shortages requiring the pursuit of IT efficiencies through secure cloud IT services and which they control and to accelerate this process… Continue readingNavy and Marine Corps accelerate cloud

Military Cloud

DoD Cloud Way Forward

As DoD Cloud Way Forward comes ahead and provides an institutionalized, efficient method of soliciting offers from small businesses for agile, devsecops, cloud computing technology services, all task orders are requested, awarded and managed using the GSA Schedule 47QTCA23D000J Contract. Therefore, GSA has propelled the DoD cloud way forward for comprehensive development of this department initiative. As a side benefit of cloud service, the SeaPorte Multiple Award Contract contributes to the Nation’s engine of job growth and Veteran employment opportunities. Importance of DoD Cloud Architecture is an importance of DoD Cloud strategy encouraging that cloud service providers and a DoD cloud customer keep in mind the end goal of a integrated business Micro-services cloud framework for future interoperability. Ideally, a well designed DoD Cloud Strategy will prevent multiplicity and duplicity… Continue readingDoD Cloud Way Forward

Cloud Through 8astars

Procurement of Cloud Computing with GSA Schedule

Procurement of cloud computing services is a simple process. The GSA Schedule order process is streamlined so that you can implement cloud computing for your department in a timely manner. Further information available at Purchasing Cloud through GSA Schedule. Purchasing Cloud Computing through GSA Schedule To comply with the acquisition processes; the awardees have the opportunity to complete for GSA Schedule orders in fair competition with performance based statements of work when required. Opportunities are available in a e-commerce style portal which presents solicitations for task order competition. The contract prohibits time and materials orders and undefined orders. Each indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple award contract (MAC) is for a base of five (5) years with two five (5) year options which allow for long-term partnerships Role of The… Continue readingProcurement of Cloud Computing with GSA Schedule

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