Gravitant Supports General Dynamics Information Technology in Offering
New Cloud Brokerage Services to Government Entities
General Dynamics Information Technology will use Gravitant's cloudMatrix to provide
Federal, state, and local governments a scalable, centralized and easy way to adopt hybrid cloud
computing
AUSTIN, TEXAS —March 26, 2013—Gravitant® today announced that General Dynamics Information
Technology, a leading provider of IT services to government customers, will leverage Gravitant’s
cloudMatrix platform in a series of new offerings that will allow governmental entities to rapidly acquire
and employ hybrid cloud computing to improve control, increase security and lower costs.
With continued tightening of budgets at all levels of government coupled with broad initiatives such as the
Federal government’s Cloud First policy, the opportunity to leverage public cloud computing to lower
costs remains key. However, Gartner Research has noted that, “most of the cost advantages of cloud
computing are predicated on public cloud solutions, but, very often, intended [government] deployments
are limited to private and community clouds, where there is simply not enough scale to achieve intended
cost-saving targets” (1).
A major barrier to public cloud adoption is the complexity of managing the sourcing and usage of multiple
public cloud service providers as well as the lack of standardized tools to holistically manage an IT supply
chain that is comprised of both private and public clouds.
To address these challenges, General Dynamics Information Technology is introducing cloud services
brokerage offerings optimized for state and local governments and US federal agencies that offer
affordable and manageable hybrid cloud computing solutions. These brokerages will allow various
government bodies to leverage public cloud services from a variety of providers as well as their own
private clouds, all under a common management and process framework. The benefits will be lower
ongoing IT costs, centralized procurement and management and the flexibility to easily expand or modify
infrastructure to meet changing demands over time.
Core to General Dynamics Information Technology’s new offerings is Gravitant’s cloudMatrix cloud
brokerage and management platform. Streamlining the assessment, design, procurement, provisioning
and real-time governance of solutions across hybrid cloud environments, the award-winning cloudMatrix
serves as both a business and IT management hub for Just-in-Time ITTM — making cloud computing
practical and accelerating its adoption.
"Partnering with Gravitant is consistent with the General Dynamics Information Technology commitment
to provide flexible and cost effective hybrid cloud solutions that allow governments to fully benefit from
cloud computing and better serve their constituents,” said Dave Ryan, vice president of General
Dynamics IT’s Information Technology Solutions sector.
"Gravitant is a leader in enabling system integrators, VARs, and larger enterprises to transform how they
manage an IT supply chain that leverages cloud computing services through our cloud services
brokerage and management platform," said Mohammed Farooq, Chairman and CEO, Gravitant. "As a
major, global IT services provider, General Dynamic Information Technology is leading this transformation
to a next generation IT supply chain that is demand driven.”
About General Dynamic Information Technology
As a trusted systems integrator for more than 50 years, General Dynamics Information Technology
(www.gdit.com) provides information technology, systems engineering, professional services and
simulation and training to customers in the defense, federal civilian government, health, homeland
security, intelligence, state and local government and commercial sectors. With approximately 21,000
professionals worldwide, the company delivers IT enterprise solutions, manages large-scale, missioncritical IT programs and provides mission support services. General Dynamics Information Technology is
a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
(1) “A Quick Look at Cloud Computing in Government, 2012”, Gartner Research, March 2012.