Liquidware Labs has received an authority-to-operate approval from the Defense Department for its desktop management software products. Carahsoft Technology serves as a master government aggregator for Liquidware Labs’ offerings and will deliver the information technology products to a DoD agency responsible for managing enterprise data infrastructure across the military, Carahsoft said Nov. …

The information technology industry expects to see gains in security in 2014 led by efforts in the government sector, Merlin International posted on its Insights blog Tuesday. The article, citing various sources, says advances from federal IT have and will push future innovation toward counteracting ever-growing threats from cyberspace. It …

NetApp and HotLink are partnering to integrate their cloud management services to offer data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity tools to clients, Virtualization Review reported Wednesday. Christa Ayer writes that the two companies created hybrid computing environment from products such as VMware vCenter, NetApp Private Storage for Amazon Web …

The U.S. Navy is seeking industry opinions on data center consolidation best practices, Federal Times reported Nov. 11. Nicole Blake Johnson writes that the Navy asked in a request for information about the recommended methods and mechanisms of moving Navy applications into a commercial cloud. The questions that are part …

Red Hat has introduced additional hybrid, private and public cloud administration features into the new version of the company’s enterprise cloud-based management service. CloudForms 3.0 is designed to work with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Amazon Web Services, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware vSphere, Red Hat said …

BMC Software Inc. has introduced two new cloud migration services offerings which are intended to help customers adopt cloud computing platforms. The BMC express cloud program works to consolidate software, consulting services and training for private cloud customers to gain access to Amazon Web Services, BMC said Thursday. BMC Software …

Texas-based LiveIT Consulting Group will offer its clients a NetApp enterprise-level unified storage platform under a reseller partnership deal. NetApp’s clustered Data ONTAP software is designed to integrate with VMware vCloud technology and help users migrate data between virtual machines without interrupting operations, LiveIT said Tuesday. “The cloud is enabling …

Rich Geraffo has joined Oracle as senior vice president of the company’s worldwide alliance and channels business unit, where he will oversee ongoing development and execution of the Oracle PartnerNetwork. Geraffo will report directly to President Mark Hurd and also be be responsible for the company’s partner revenue generation projects, …

Toshiba Corp. has introduced a virtual desktop service with virtualization technologies from Citrix and VMware intended to help information technology customers manage infrastructures, Web Host Industry Review reported Monday. Nicole Henderson writes the Toshiba VDS builds on the company’s management software and storage technology and consolidates Citrix XenDesktop and VMware …

EMC has developed new software and hardware products that aim to help customers secure and maintain virtual data in public and private clouds. The company held live broadcasting event to introduce a suite of unified storage systems, reference architectures, software-defined storage platforms and caching software offerings, EMC said Wednesday. “Customers are …

Jonathan King, Savvis’ vice president of cloud strategy and business development, says there is overlap between his company’s cloud portfolio and a new VMware infrastructure-as-a-service product, SiliconAngle reported Monday. Maria Deutscher writes King described VMware’s vCloud Hybrid as a platform that aims to tap a large unaddressed space in the hybrid cloud …

Carahsoft Technology Corp. has agreed to resell Racemi’s server migration software and services to customers, technology partners and service providers. Racemi’s technology works to duplicate server workloads between diverse physical, virtual or private cloud environments, Racemi said Tuesday. Lawrence Guillory, Racemi CEO of Racemi, said the companies intend to combine …

Intel subsidiary McAfee has rolled out an updated security product that seeks to protect enterprise information migrated to public and private clouds. The new version of McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server is designed to secure server workloads such as those on Amazon Web Services and VMware‘s vCenter, McAfee said Monday. “Enterprises …

HyTrust Inc. has raised $18.5 million from returning and new investors in a Series C oversubscribed funding round meant to help further support the company’s growth and operation strategies. Intel Capital and Fortinet, along with previous investors VMware, In-Q-Tel, Granite Ventures, Cisco Systems, Trident Capital and Epic Ventures, joined the …

CA Technologies has introduced a fresh version of its analytics services that intend to help customers identify resources needed for applications. These new analytics capabilities are designed to help organizations manage risks of running applications in mainframe, distributed, virtual and hybrid cloud environments, CA said Monday. The updated CA Capacity Management services work …