Wednesday 08 September 2010
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.
