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CA Technologies Acquires IT Consulting Firm Base Technologies

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CA Technologies today announced the acquisition of Base Technologies, a privately-held consulting firm focused on the management of government IT assets, with leading practices in virtualization management, mainframe technology, security and managed IT infrastructure.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Base Technologies brings to CA 23 years of experience in the U.S. Public Sector, along with a track record of success with customers such as the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Institutes of Health, Federal Aviation Administration, and Commuter Connections, among others.

Scality Expands Team In New York Office, Appoints Eric Craig As Sales Chief

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Cloud storage system company Scality has appointed Eric Craig as North American Sales Director.

He comes to Scality from SunGard Availability Services, a $1.5 billion enterprise software company providing cloud security and disaster recovery where, as Vice President of Sales, he developed a highly productive channel and reseller network. Prior to that, while at Current Analysis, Craig delivered six straight quarters of growth.

Earlier in his career he led the building of a new sales organization for Cable & Wireless/SAVVIS and led the Qwest Communications launch into advanced IP services.

Scality is the developer of RING, an application centric cloud storage system, enabling cloud storage to scale up to exabytes using commodity server hardware with direct attached storage.

Sourcefire Aims To Facilitate Application Control Within Virtual Environments

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Sourcefire, the creator of Snort and a provider of cybersecurity solutions, today announced integration between Sourcefire and VMware vShield App and vShield Edge.

The integrations enable the Sourcefire Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to configure VMware vShield App or vShield Edge to dynamically restrict any policy-violating activity within a customer’s virtual environment.

The Sourcefire IPSTM integrated with VMware vShield products provides users with application detection, application control and real-time adaptive security.

With this ability to enforce security policies, the integration between Sourcefire and VMware vShield solutions helps users reduce the risk of a security breach or data loss. The Sourcefire IPS monitors real-time network and user activity in a virtual environment, detecting policy violations such as the use of unauthorized applications on non-standard ports or unpermitted access to a critical host.

When a violation is identified, Sourcefire uses VMware vShield APIs to dynamically configure vShield App or vShield Edge to restrict the activity causing the violation.

Queplix Debuts New BladeShare Exchange Program

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Data virtualization company Queplix yesterday announced its new BladeShare Exchange Program, which enables partners or customers to build custom Application Software Blades for new third party and custom applications, and make them available to the worldwide Queplix customer community.

Queplix’s intelligent Application Software Blades perform automatic connections to target applications, reducing the time required to integrate applications by up to 75 percent or more.

The BladeShare Exchange Program aims to enable participants to develop new apps that can easily connect and virtualize into a Queplix configuration by enabling them with products like VirtualETL, CloudETL and Virtual Data Manager.

As a result, companies have a greater opportunity to leverage Queplix advanced data virtualization and NoSQL integration capabilities and dramatically speed up and reduce the cost of their integration projects.

Queplix Application Software Blades identify and extract key data and associated security information from many different target applications such as Salesforce, Google and others. The blades move physical data from the abstraction layer of the source application, to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog where the data is automatically harmonized with other systems.

Former Salesforce.com Executive Peter Stern Joins OpSource

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Enterprise cloud and managed hosting company OpSource has expanded its management team, adding technology sales veteran Peter Stern as senior vice president, sales.

Previously vice president of enterprise corporate sales for Salesforce.com, Stern will focus on domestic and international sales initiatives, equipping his team to scale and grow the company.

Stern brings 14 years of technology sales and leadership experience to his position at OpSource. Stern assumes his role of senior VP, sales as incumbent Jon Beck shifts his focus solely to the indirect channel, assuming the role of senior VP, worldwide channels and alliances.

In his previous position at Salesforce, Stern was responsible for the west coast development and growth of the company’s new direct sales division.

Previously, Stern was regional manager of ISVs North America at Oracle where he was responsible for the management of a North American field sales organization evangelizing Oracle’s embedded infrastructure technology within the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community.

OpSource provides the integration, engineering, marketing and sales support required to launch and scale cloud-based solutions. In 2009, the company introduced OpSource Cloud Hosting, a public cloud IaaS service offering pay-as-you-go flexibility, 100 percent availability as well as increased security, control and support for integration.

Cloud Services Provider Virtustream Opens New York Office

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Virtustream, a provider of cloud services and infrastructure solutions, has announced a new office in New York to support the development and delivery of Virtustream’s suite of Cloud Platform Services as well as regional sales.

Companies are selecting Cloud Services, delivered through Virtustream’s xStream cloud platform, to achieve the benefits of pooled resource efficiencies and elasticity without sacrificing security, availability and application performance.

xStream features a unique unit-based utility pricing model and provides guaranteed resources backed by industry-leading service level agreements.

Ed Franklin, Virtustream executive vice president, Global Cloud Platform Services, recently joined Virtustream and will lead the New York office. Prior to joining Virtustream, Franklin was vice president, Global Solutions for Verizon. Previously, Franklin created and led the IT Services organization of MCI Communications.