CloudPassage Wins People's Choice at UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --  CloudPassage™ Inc., the leading cloud server security company, announced today that it has won the people's choice award for the most promising startup category during the UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards.  

CloudPassage was one of three finalists shortlisted for this category by a panel of judges who made the selections based on nominations from 350 emerging and next-generation cloud companies.  UP-START sought disruptive and next generation Cloud Computing companies, as well as innovative stealth mode and emerging solution providers who are defining cloud technology.

CloudPassage received the people's choice award after winning the audience vote during the UP 2011 Cloud Computing Conference held on Tuesday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.  The conference showcased the leading technology innovators in cloud computing, and provided a forum for business and technology leaders to learn more about how cloud computing can enable growth and innovation for companies across all industries.

"We're honored to have won the vote of the people," said Rand Wacker, VP of Product Management at CloudPassage, who presented during the cloud awards final.  "This underscores that people who know cloud know that security is an imperative.  We want the entire community to help educate new cloud adopters about what they need to do to keep themselves safe."

Full details on the UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards can be located at http://www.up-con.com/awards.

About CloudPassage
CloudPassage is the leading cloud server security provider, and creator of Halo™, the industry's first and only security and compliance platform, purpose-built for elastic cloud environments.  Halo supports cloud server bursting, cloning, and migration and operates across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.  Industry leading companies like Foursquare, StrongMail and ExoIS trust Halo to seamlessly manage their server security configuration, host-based firewalls, intrusion detection, and server account auditing from one system.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital.  Gartner, Inc. named CloudPassage one of four "Cool Vendors in Cloud Security Services, 2011."  For more information, please visit: http://www.CloudPassage.com.

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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