GiGi Schumm,
Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector, Symantec Corp.

We think that we can help agencies protect their information, whether they’re looking to take advantage of public or private clouds. We think we’ve got the security expertise needed to help federal agencies ensure they maintain the level of risk management needed to meet their mission objectives.

Symantec is in a unique position. We’re a consumer of cloud services as a company, we’re a provider of cloud services. Our online backup I talked about as well as the Symantec hosted security services that we offer, and we have a lot of technology that’s cloud enabling. We believe we have the broadest spectrum of cloud enabling technology out there because it goes beyond traditional security software. We have backup and storage technology, virtualization technology and have more recently introduced encryption and identity management technologies. All of those are really key technologies in enabling agencies to take advantage of the cloud.

Tom Ruff,
Vice President, Public Sector, Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Akamai provides a set of discrete cloud based service capabilities. Our strategic approach is not based on any one aspect of cloud software or platform services, but to remain the cloud enabler or optimizer. What I mean by that is our cloud strategy positions Akamai to be an overlay technology that enhances a variety of cloud services in a way that allows those capabilities to remain visible, controlled, highly available, scalable and secured.

We don’t play in just one cloud offering, we play across multiple aspects of the cloud. We not only provide discrete capabilities, but more importantly we provide enhanced cloud services in order to overcome the limitations of the cloud and to fully meets the agency’s needs.

Richard W. Johnson,
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions

It’s based on partnership and innovation. By collaborating with partners and Lockheed Martin technologists, together we can provide more innovative capabilities because we realize that no one individual or company can meet all of the technical requirements to deliver cloud computing in government.

These two aspects of our strategy have three major elements associated with them. The first is focusing on development of a suite of secure cloud services, which are operationalized and bring strategic benefits to our customer’s core missions.  The second is the launch of an online marketplace that allows our customers to go to, test, evaluate and then purchase our secure cloud services.

And the third is the delivery of those capabilities via a trusted cloud service and operating model, which provides the ability to customize the various offerings specific to agency needs, and to the specific business model and buying patterns that are most beneficial to individual agencies.