CloudPassage, Inc. has entered into the Cloud Tools Program with Rackspace Hosting (News - Alert), the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. The move will allow CloudPassage to provide its software-as-a-service security solution to Rackspace cloud customers.
"Security and compliance remain major challenges that stop companies from experiencing the benefits that the tremendous scalability and agility of cloud hosting provides," said Carson Sweet, co-founder and CEO of CloudPassage, in a press release. "Securing the server itself in an automated, portable, and elastic manner represents an extremely effective approach to practical survivability in public and hybrid clouds. We are excited to work with Rackspace to provide more value to their customers by transparently and portably protecting servers within the Rackspace Cloud."
"Rackspace is excited to have CloudPassage as a member of the Rackspace Cloud Tools Program, our ecosystem of powerful software and cloud solution providers, "said Nishan Sivathasan, director of corporate development for Rackspace. “The CloudPassage security solution offers Rackspace customers an additional layer of security that is designed to be cloud-capable and elastic through its delivery model."
The software-as-a-service security solutions from CloudPassage can manage cloud security by leveraging a single solution that is purpose-built for the cloud and delivers multiple layers of defense for cloud servers. Through its services, CloudPassage addresses the technical challenges of securing highly dynamic cloud hosting environments where consistent physical location, network control and perimeter security are not guaranteed.
Recently, Gartner (
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named CloudPassage in the list of "Cool Vendors in Cloud Security Services, 2011" along with four other cloud security vendors. Providing automation of multiple server security functions and transparently handling the highly fluid and scalable characteristics of public IaaS environments, CloudPassage's key innovation is the Halo architecture. By automatically securing cloud servers when they burst or are cloned, CloudPassage technology is purpose-built to provide elastic, portable, and extremely scalable security.
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