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Red Hat and Microsoft have expanded their partnership to help public sector clients adopt Microsoft’s cloud computing technology through their existing open-source Red Hat software subscriptions. Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s public sector business, wrote in a blog entry posted Friday the company’s Cloud Access program now allows clients to migrate their subscriptions to Azure […] More

Aubrey Merchant, federal chief technology officer at Blue Coat Systems, has said cloud access security brokers are key to maintain visibility and control over outsourced cloud applications in an interview with Federal News Radio posted Tuesday. Merchant told John Gilroy during the Federal Tech Talk radio program that CASBs serve as a forward proxy that can help organizations understand the way employees use […] More

Red Hat has named NEC Corp. of America as a cloud platform and services provider after the latter company completed certification and testing requirements for enterprise cloud deployments. NEC will use managed, multi-tenant models to offer its portfolio of private cloud and platform-as-a-service offerings to government agencies through Red Hat’s Certified Cloud and Service Provider program, […] More