This week, Ericsson acquired a majority stake in Apcera, a platform as a service vendor that enables organizations to control how applications are used in cloud computing environments. Apcera’s Continuum platform allows customers to monitor the usage of IT infrastructures, orchestrate application deployment and implement governance and security policies. The acquisition of Apcera promises to enhance the Ericsson platform by delivering cloud automation as well as security, governance and application management functionality that gives users more granular insight about the performance of their infrastructure and its constituent environment. Apcera’s technology takes aim at the rapidly emerging discipline of business processes dedicated to risk management, security and compliance by providing Ericsson customers with enhanced abilities to organize and delineate security and governance protocols as they relate to infrastructure components and applications. The acquisition constitutes a notable feather in Ericsson’s IaaS cap as it builds out its cloud portfolio to serve the needs of enterprise customers, many of whom are compelled to leverage audit, compliance and security protocols to satisfy the requirements of investors and state and federal regulatory agencies.
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