First cloud service provider authorized under FedRAMP

Just over a year after OMB formally announced the the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which relies on third-party assessments of cloud service providers seeking to offer their services to government agencies, the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board issued its first provisional authority to operate (ATO) to Autonomic Resources for its infrastructure-as-as-service offering, the Autonomic Resources Cloud-Platform (ARC-P). Autonomic Resources only serves the federal government market with its services, which currently include cloud-hosted email as well as infrastructure.