Thursday 29 July 2010
Rohati Systems announces Virtualized Cloud Security initiative
To address growing security challenges in virtualized data center and cloud computing environments, Rohati Systems is announcing its Virtualized Cloud Security initiative. With this, Rohati will extend its on-premise security solutions to virtualized servers and off-premise cloud environments. IT organizations can leverage Rohati solutions to provide security and controls for accessing all applications and resources consistently and seamlessly, regardless of whether they reside on physical or virtual server infrastructures on-premise or in off-premise clouds.
“Just as every other computing revolution has left security to the last, cloud computing has been no different so far,” stated Richard Stiennon, founder and chief research analyst of IT-Harvest, an independent analyst firm. “Moving forward, cloud computing is going to generate a high demand for secure processes, controls, and products to lock down an otherwise world-changing technology. Rohati’s security initiative is a much needed step in this direction.”
Enterprises leverage Rohati solutions for securing collaboration and simplifying compliance across all users and resources. The Virtualized Cloud Security initiative enables enterprises to leverage virtualized compute infrastructures as well as rent compute capacity on demand while continuing to collaborate securely and meet compliance demands. By extending internal security and controls to workloads and data that travel between the enterprise and virtualized clouds, enterprises will be able to rapidly realize elasticity and cost-effectiveness.
“Providing ‘control and trust’ is essential when it comes to collaboration and sensitive data in the cloud,” said John Keagy, CEO and co-founder of GoGrid. “We are impressed with the accomplishments of the team behind Rohati as well as their unique new approaches to security, and we are proud of our partnership. Rohati’s Virtualized Cloud Security initiative provides powerful security and controls for accessing data and applications in the cloud, and will help end-users move to the cloud quickly and with confidence.”
“Virtualization and cloud computing have created a unique inflection point,” said Prashant Gandhi, Rohati Systems president and CEO. “It demands new and innovative approaches for enabling dynamic security and controls while simultaneously reducing complexity and rigidity. We are very pleased to work with industry thought leaders to bring our security innovations to virtualization and cloud environments.”
Rohati’s Virtualized Cloud Security initiative will expand the capabilities of its flagship product, the Transaction Networking System™ (TNS™), into virtualized servers, cloud computing, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments. Later this year, Rohati will be announcing specific product releases that support this strategic initiative. Contact Rohati at www.rohati.com/company/contact-us.php.
About Rohati Systems
Rohati Systems, a data center and cloud security company, provides award-winning Transaction Networking Systems (TNS) to enable secure collaboration and simplify regulatory compliance. The TNS patent-pending agent-less architecture implements high-performance, identity, and application-fluent policies for controlling access to data center and cloud resources without touching applications, servers, operating systems, or clients. Granular, context-based policy controls are applied to all application resources, including virtualized and mobile workloads. TNS is available as a 1-RU fixed form-factor appliance for 1G server farms or as a 5-slot modular chassis for 10G data centers.
Rohati, Transaction Networking System, TNS, and related logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Rohati Systems, Inc. All other products or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
CohesiveFT
CohesiveFT (http://www.cohesiveft.com), the leader in on-boarding solutions for virtual and cloud computing infrastructures, today announced it has partnered with Capgemini (http://www.capgemini.com), one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The agreement will make CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed® and Elastic Server® product families the preferred cloud server assembly and cloud security and control solutions for the Capgemini Cloud Computing Center of Excellence. Capgemini will now use CohesiveFT’s products as key components of their data center to cloud or hybrid cloud solutions for enterprise customers.
“Capgemini is the world’s largest IT professional services company and we are extremely excited to be working with them to help deliver real, production-ready solutions to their clients in the much over-hyped cloud computing space,” said Patrick Kerpan, CohesiveFT CTO. “The combination of the Elastic Server factory and VPN-Cubed gives Capgemini’s clients dynamic cloud server assembly and customer-controlled overlay network capabilities that provide security and control in the clouds. The Cloud Computing Center of Excellence gives clients a much needed repository of enterprise-ready cloud computing solutions available now.”
Capgemini’s Cloud Computing Center of Excellence, will help businesses evaluate and implement cloud initiatives by offering cloud consulting and readiness assessments while using existing market leading solutions from its partner companies like CohesiveFT. The center will also train “hundreds” of Capgemini employees on how to provide cloud computing services.
With CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed, Capgemini clients will be able to leverage four key capabilities public cloud users currently cannot control: static addressing for their cloud devices; topology control; use of popular enterprise protocols like UDP Multicast for service discovery; and lastly encrypted communications between all devices on the overlay network. Additionally clients using the Elastic Server platform to act as repository for their virtual server’s “bill-of-materials”; will be able to redeploy those servers as often and to as many different cloud and virtual infrastructure execution contexts as desired.
“We chose CohesiveFT because it automates and addresses areas of extreme concern for our clients; cross-cloud deployment, and cloud network security and control,” noted Simon Plant, Product Lead, Cloud Computing, Capgemini. “CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed and Elastic Server products provide an automated and affordable way for our clients to deploy custom servers to the cloud and easily control those business-critical assets via encrypted connections between existing infrastructure and the cloud.”
About CohesiveFT
Cohesive Flexible Technologies provides onboarding solutions for virtual and cloud computing infrastructures. CFT’s Elastic Server platform is a web-based factory for creating, deploying, and managing custom multi-sourced servers comprised of horizontal, open source and third-party software components. Additionally the VPN-Cubed® packaged service gives customers control of networking in the clouds, across clouds, and between their private data center and the clouds. For more information, visit www.cohesiveft.com.
Elastic Server and VPN-Cubed are registered trademarks of CohesiveFT. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.
The agreement will make CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed® and Elastic Server® product families the preferred cloud server assembly and cloud security and control solutions for the Capgemini Cloud Computing Center of Excellence. Capgemini will now use CohesiveFT’s products as key components of their data center to cloud or hybrid cloud solutions for enterprise customers. “Capgemini is the world’s largest IT professional services company and we are extremely excited to be working with them to help deliver real, production-ready solutions to their clients in the much over-hyped cloud computing space,” said Patrick Kerpan, CohesiveFT CTO. “The combination of the Elastic Server factory and VPN-Cubed gives Capgemini’s clients dynamic cloud server assembly and customer-controlled overlay network capabilities that provide security and control in the clouds. The Cloud Computing Center of Excellence gives clients a much needed repository of enterprise-ready cloud computing solutions available now.” Capgemini’s Cloud Computing Center of Excellence, will help businesses evaluate and implement cloud initiatives by offering cloud consulting and readiness assessments while using existing market leading solutions from its partner companies like CohesiveFT. The center will also train “hundreds” of Capgemini employees on how to provide cloud computing services.
With CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed, Capgemini clients will be able to leverage four key capabilities public cloud users currently cannot control: static addressing for their cloud devices; topology control; use of popular enterprise protocols like UDP Multicast for service discovery; and lastly encrypted communications between all devices on the overlay network. Additionally clients using the Elastic Server platform to act as repository for their virtual server’s “bill-of-materials”; will be able to redeploy those servers as often and to as many different cloud and virtual infrastructure execution contexts as desired. “We chose CohesiveFT because it automates and addresses areas of extreme concern for our clients; cross-cloud deployment, and cloud network security and control,” noted Simon Plant, Product Lead, Cloud Computing, Capgemini. “CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed and Elastic Server products provide an automated and affordable way for our clients to deploy custom servers to the cloud and easily control those business-critical assets via encrypted connections between existing infrastructure and the cloud.”
We brought together a large number of players so we don’t get an enormous mess of standards,” said Richard Soley, chairman and chief executive officer of Object Management Group, one of the organizations participating in the effort. Soley announced the formation of the group at a cloud-computing symposium held by National Defense University’s Information Resource Management College. he organizations joining in the collaborative effort include the Cloud Security Alliance, the Distributed Management Task Force, the Open Grid Forum, the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Open Cloud Consortium, with other groups expected to participate.
In addition, one possible future activity for the Clouds Standards Coordination working could be supporting the creation of cloud-computing storefronts advocated by Vivek Kundra, federal chief information officer. Kundra, who gave the keynote address at the cloud-computing symposium, described an online storefront to be developed by GSA as a way of advancing the ability of agencies to procure computing-on-demand services. The group’s formation, according to information on the Web site, represents an outgrowth of coordination efforts by the Standards Development Organization Collaboration on Networked Resources Management working group.
Cue a chorus of commentary alleging how this shows that if you want to keep stuff private, don’t put it on the web, period, because cloud security is not ready for prime time and nothing is secure on the net. OK, so let’s go back to storing confidential company documents on laptops that people leave in cars or forget on trains, or transferring them on computer tape and CD-ROMs that couriers deliver to the wrong address, or backing them up to USB sticks that go missing, or forgetting to wipe them off the hard disks of office servers when we dispose of them (UPDATE: see Michael Krigsman’s post on the same topic for a catalog of examples). Cloud security is no different from real-world security. It’s just a matter of identifying the risks and containing them.
Users really like the convenience of the cloud — far too much for them to give it up — but the trouble is, they also like the convenience of authentication using a simple username-password pair. They haven’t yet figured out that’s far too little to separate your confidential data from a nefarious interloper, especially when the Web means that authentication will work from anywhere, which dramatically increases the threat level. Now it’s up to cloud providers to inflict the same pain on their users — for their own sake — to protect their data. We won’t like it, but we’ll put up with it because at the end of the day we’d rather jump through all those hoops than give up all the convenience the cloud brings us.
Security is an increasingly critical issue in cloud computing as more and more companies adopt Web services APIs,” said Greg Brail, senior director of product management at Sonoa. Sonoa will sit on the Cloud Security Alliance’s Security and Privacy Advisory Board, working to develop solutions in information security and risk management for the growing cloud computing industry. In entering into the Cloud Security Alliance, Sonoa partners with industry leaders including the Jericho Forum, the ASP-SaaS Industry Consortium, ISACA, Verizon Business and Hewlett-Packard, among others.
The partnership is part of Sonoa’s commitment to cloud and API security, ensuring that the company innovates and implements the critical management and governance functions needed for clients to adopt cloud computing technology safely and efficiently. “Security is an increasingly critical issue in cloud computing as more and more companies adopt Web services APIs,” said Greg Brail, senior director of product management at Sonoa.The Cloud Security Alliance is currently developing version two of its core document “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing,” addressing 15 domains of concern for consumers and providers of cloud computing technology.The partnership is part of Sonoa’s commitment to cloud and API security, ensuring that the company innovates and implements the critical management and governance functions needed for clients to adopt cloud computing technology safely and efficiently.
The Cloud Security Alliance is currently developing version two of its core document “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing,” addressing 15 domains of concern for consumers and providers of cloud computing technology.
Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance is led by industry practitioners and supported by founding charter companies PGP Corporation, Qualys, Inc. and Zscaler, Inc. For further information, the Cloud Security Alliance website is www.cloudsecurityalliance.org. The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
Sonoa Systems
Sonoa provides analytics, management and governance solutions for APIs, feeds and cloud services. Sonoa customers include over 50 leading enterprise, SaaS and media companies. Leading customers such as Pfizer, Warner Music, and IntraLinks use Sonoa to create new revenue channels, reduce costs, and innovate faster. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA, privately held, and backed by leading investors including Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners, Third Point Ventures, and SAP Ventures. For more see www.sonoasystems.com.
