Data Sheet
Federal Governments
Virtustream Federal Cloud, powered by Virtustream’s xStream cloud management software, is an integrated IaaS solution with unique processes and technology backed by industry-leading service level agreements.
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Federal-grade for the most mission-critical.
Deliver better services to your constituents—both inside and outside your organization—all while beating budget pressure and transforming your operations to increase the ability to support a mission focused agenda.
Federal-grade for the Most Mission-Critical Workloads
By providing industry-leading SLAs with a flexible pricing model that supports capacity on demand, Virtustream Federal Cloud was built to satisfy the needs of federal government customers while providing better application performance, greater agility and efficient, and more robust security. With our deep public sector experience, application-level performance guarantees, and true consumption-based billing, you can transform your entire IT organization. Free your internal IT resources while improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your biggest, most critical applications.
Powered to perform—guaranteed
Mission-critical applications, like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others, don’t just run in Virtustream Federal Cloud—they perform more efficiently than ever before. Because Virtustream Federal Cloud was built from the ground up to deliver outstanding performance and availability, we back our offerings with industry-leading availability and performance service level agreements at the application level.
Reduced Complexity
Re-architecting existing mission-critical applications plus the supporting services tied to those applications requires planning, resources, and time. Realize increased agility and reduced complexity in application environments by deploying existing stateful applications with minimal changes to gain Authorization to Operate (ATO) quicker—reducing the time and effort associated with deploying and managing applications.
Compliant and Secure
Security comes standard with Virtustream Federal Cloud. Our cloud was built to handle the most sensitive types of data, all with the appropriate compliance and security standards. Integrate and automate security, compliance, and other functions—and get a real-time, predictive picture of your entire enterprise risk management (ERM) landscape. Our professional services teams and suppliers specialize in supporting federal, state and local entities—helping them meet mandatory requirements such as:
- FedRAMP Moderate P-ATO
- SSAE18/SOC2/ISAE3402
- ISO 27001:2013
- ISO 9001:2015
- ISO 22301:2012
- HIPAA/HITECH/HITRUST
- Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR
- CUI/ITAR/EAR
Virtustream can also support International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance for those customers who do not meet the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) requirement to be placed in the standard Virtustream Federal Cloud.
Beat Budget Pressure
Expectations for public sector IT are rising while budgets continue to fall. To keep pace, you need to achieve true cloud benefits for both your non-strategic and strategic applications. Virtustream Federal Cloud allows you to drastically cut costs from your most expensive and time-consuming mission-critical applications. Virtustream’s true consumption-based pricing model lets you only pay for what you use—giving you improved economics beyond basic virtualization and providing chargeback and show back of consumption for better internal cost allocation.
Focus on the Mission
Virtustream’s tiered service offerings provide the ideal solution for each workload, making sure that federal government customers are paying only for what their organization uses. Customers benefit from the ability to increase or decrease aspects of their environment, as their missions’ needs fluctuate or evolve.
Realize True IT Transformation
Federal government organizations face several challenges as they look to transform and optimize operations. Unpredictable costs, increasing complexity, and knowledge gaps are just a few examples of today’s main impediments to well-run IT operations. With Virtustream Managed Services, government organizations gain the insight, experience, and economies of scale needed through comprehensive IT management solutions that raise the bar on current operations, enable transformational journeys, and ensure that the most value and performance is gained from information infrastructures.
The Future is Hybrid
Our xStream cloud management software can be deployed on any x86-based infrastructure, giving you the efficiency you need where you need it—all with a single interface for management and control. Deploy your applications where you need them, and save costs across your entire hybrid landscape. Gain the most value and performance from IT and free up resources to enhance existing services and even develop new services to better interact with constituents.
Secure Managed Cloud Solutions That Power Public Sector IT Transformation
Federal agencies seek to transform IT into a mission enabler that advances business owners toward modernization and innovation instead of logistics and maintenance. Learn about some of the roadblocks that exist, and how Virtustream provides secure managed cloud solutions that increase the ability of the federal government to support a mission focused agenda.
BEYOND THE BUZZ
Your Guide to the Reality of IT Modernization
Read this guide from GovLoop to learn best practices for IT modernization and how IT modernization can help your agency address mission-critical priorities.