The General Services Administration awarded 11 vendors spots on the first governmentwide contract for cloud computing-

GSA announced Tuesday a blanket purchase agreement for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), including cloud storage, virtual machines and Web hosting. All of these services eventually will be available through the Apps.gov portal.

"Offering IaaS on Apps.gov makes sense for the federal government and for the American people," said Vivek Kundra, federal chief information officer, in a release. "Cloud computing services help to deliver on this administration's commitment to provide better value for the American taxpayer by making government more efficient."

The winning vendors are:

• Apptis Inc. partnered with Amazon Web Services

• AT&T

• Autonomic Resources partnered with Carpathia, Enomaly and Dell

• CGI Federal

• Computer Literacy World partnered with Electrosoft, XO Communications and Secure Networks

• Computer Technology Consultants partnered with Softlayer, Inc.

• Eyak Tech LLC

• General Dynamics Information Technology partnered with Carpathia

• Insight Public Sector partnered with Microsoft

• Savvis Federal Systems

• Verizon Federal Inc.

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