Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has invested $5 million in Morpheus Data, a Colorado cloud automation startup, with the intention of integrating that firm’s technology into its own cloud platform to help improve service to its government and civilian clients.
The Reston technology and defense contractor is increasingly finding its government agency customers want to use multiple cloud service providers, and Morpheus Data’s software-as-a-service helps companies efficiently manage these disparate services through a dashboard that monitors things like power consumption, computer memory usage and overall cost. It also acts as a control console for cloud systems software that helps development teams, IT, finance and cybersecurity departments monitor cloud use without stepping on each other’s toes.
“Nobody has, ‘how do we operate this well,’ figured out,” said Andy Henson, SAIC’s vice president of digital innovation, said of managing multiple cloud environments.…
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