CloudPassage Recognized by Everything Channel's CRN Magazine as One of the 100 Top Cloud Computing Vendors

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudPassage, Inc., a pioneering security SaaS company, today announced it was named one of the 100 Top Cloud Computing Vendors by Everything Channel's CRN.  The comprehensive list will highlight the most innovative cloud vendors and solutions for the channel - including storage cloud offerings, security cloud offerings, cloud apps, cloud infrastructure and cloud platforms to assist solution providers in navigating the cloud phenomena successfully.

"This year's Top Cloud Computing Vendors award is based on a cloud vendor's approach to creating an innovative product, or an innovative approach to supporting solution providers in the IT channel," said Kelley Damore, Vice President and Editorial Director CRN.  "Specifically, these Cloud vendors help resellers transform themselves into true service providers and help organizations and enterprises take advantage of the ease, flexibility, scalability, elasticity and cost savings that leveraging cloud computing has to offer."

Server-level security protection is critical in the cloud where front-line perimeter defenses are limited.

"Customers deploying cloud infrastructure in many environments are largely on their own to protect themselves; strong and highly automated host-based controls are essential," said Carson Sweet, CEO of CloudPassage.  "Security and compliance remain major challenges that stop companies from benefitting by the tremendous scalability, flexibility, and speed of cloud hosting."

CloudPassage technology is built from the ground up to provide elastic security by automatically delivering security visibility and controls when cloud servers burst or are cloned.  Once security is set up on one server, all copies of that server created later will automatically inherit its security controls.  CloudPassage customers benefit from greatly reduced attack surfaces, lower risk of compromise and improved compliance.

A sample of the list can be viewed in the March 30 issue of CRN: http://www.crn.com.

About CloudPassage

CloudPassage is a security SaaS company offering the industry's first and only server security and compliance solutions purpose-built for elastic cloud environments.  The company addresses the technical challenges of securing highly dynamic cloud hosting environments where consistent physical location, network control and perimeter security are not guaranteed.

The company's early product feature set includes high-accuracy server security configuration and vulnerability management and centralized management of host-based firewalls.  The innovative capabilities of the Halo platform operate across infrastructure models and seamlessly handle cloud server bursting, cloning, and migration.  For more information, please visit: http://www.CloudPassage.com

Everything Channel

Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services.  With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company.  To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com.  Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/everythingchnl.

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UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets.  UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists – with integrated events, online, print and business information products.  Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

CloudPassage, CloudPassage Halo SVM Server Vulnerability Management, and CloudPassage Halo Firewall are registered trademarks of CloudPassage.  All other trademarks are registered to their respective companies.  Copyright © CloudPassage 2011.

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