With open source clouds, resident IT managers can unshackle their operations from expensive legacy systems, and more cost-effectively build highly standardized sets of services that can compete with comparable and likely more generic public cloud services.

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They must be among the top 15 global providers, by Gartner-estimated market share for the evaluated services (public cloud IaaS and standardized private cloud IaaS).

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With FedRAMP, we have established a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services which every agency will be required to use.

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Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decided to conduct a National Coverage Assessment of Provenge in order to set a standardized policy about payment.

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