CA Technologies has updated its unified infrastructure management offering in an effort to help customers monitor critical information technology assets. The company rolled out updates to the tool’s analytics, alerting and cloud monitoring systems for users to avoid problems through predictive identification of threats in performance, CA said Thursday. “CA UIM’s scalable, end-to-end monitoring capabilities help IT organizations and service […] More

NetApp has introduced a new cloud-enabled object storage product that aims to help organizations manage large amounts of unstructured data securely and cost-effectively. NetApp StorageGRID Webscale supports Amazon Web Services and SNIA cloud data managers, can hold 100 billion objects and can place data automatically, NetApp said Tuesday. Dan Neault, senior vice president for data center […] More

Red Hat has rolled out a consulting service aimed at helping government customers to implement and secure cloud-based information technology systems. The Red Hat Cloud for Government program is designed to offer tools and methods for agencies to manage cloud infrastructure and computing services in their data centers, the company said Monday. “Budget-strapped agencies want […] More

Amazon Web Services has expanded its instance offerings for an AWS platform designed to help U.S. government customers process sensitive workloads in cloud environment. Jeff Barr, AWS chief evangelist, writes in a blog post published Thursday the company added five more EC2 virtual machine types hosted on the AWS GovCloud (US) system. HS1 instance is […] More

FireEye has unveiled a new threat analysis tool for Amazon Web Services that is designed to filter security alerts during event data monitoring. The FireEye Threat Analytics Platform uses the company’s intelligence technology to provide context to event data, FireEye said Wednesday. Insights from the security analytics tool then give clients the opportunity to prioritize suspected […] More

Linda Boles, formerly chief strategist for Cisco’s U.S. public sector healthcare innovation and business development, has joined ViON Corp. as director of healthcare strategies and business development. Boles most recently led a Cisco team to deliver technologies and approaches for patient safety and care management to federal, state and local healthcare agencies, ViON said Wednesday. “Ms. Boles is a […] More

Red Hat has announced the September release of its cloud management solution suited for private, public and hybrid setups, with upgrades and additional features for various environments. CloudForms 3.1, which helps network administrators jointly manage OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Red Hat enterprise virtualization platforms, now includes support for Microsoft System Center’s Virtual Machine Manager, the company […] More

Level 3 Communications has opened a data center in Herndon, Virginia, to deliver cloud computing and managed information technology services to government and other enterprise clients. The Herndon facility is the newest addition to the company’s Premier Elite global infrastructure network and features power, cooling, security and connectivity systems, Level 3 said Thursday. Premier Elite […] More

Amazon Web Services and XO Communications have extended their AWS Direct Connect agreement to provide network connectivity for access to cloud at speeds of 50 to 500 megabits, adding to the current service supporting speeds of 1 to 10 gigabits. “Companies of all sizes are now looking for reliable, more secure access to cloud resources through direct […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has joined Amazon Web Services‘ partner network to deliver integrated cloud computing offerings in the private and public sectors. Charles Onstott, vice president for cyber, cloud and data science at SAIC, said Thursday that the partnership with AWS is part of SAIC’s cloud portfolio growth strategy. “The ability to successfully integrate emerging […] More

Teresa Carlson, global public sector vice president at Amazon Web Services, has said the company is working to better communicate the value of cloud services to non-commercial organizations, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that Carlson spoke Wednesday at the annual AWS conference that drew executives from the government and nonprofit sectors to […] More

BMC Software has introduced an information technology management offering to the Amazon Web Services ecosystem in an effort to comply with the U.S. government’s cloud policy. The Agriculture Department funded the launch of BMC Remedy OnDemand on AWS in order for the tool to meet the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program requirements, BMC said Monday. BMC […] More