Rackspace Joins the Vormetric Cloud Partner Program

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Vormetric, a leader in enterprise data security for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) has joined the Cloud Partner program, and will be offering encryption and key management services to customers via Vormetric's Transparent Encryption solution. Vormetric's Transparent Encryption combines the performance, flexibility, simplicity and scalability needed to safeguard data-at-rest within Rackspace's managed cloud environments, enabling customers to address their compliance requirements, and to help protect sensitive information.

"Organizations have increasingly adopted Rackspace as their provider of choice for enterprise class cloud and hosting solutions," said John Engates, CTO at Rackspace. "With Vormetric, we've added new capabilities to extend data security practices to our customer implementations across our managed cloud platform."

Rackspace customers can use Vormetric's Transparent Encryption solution within Rackspace environments.

A top concern that organizations have with encryption is performance. Vormetric Transparent Encryption addresses this concern with high speed, hardware-based encryption using Intel AES-NI and Secure Key technologies. The result is strong protection and great performance within Rackspace environments.

"Given that security is the #1 concern of enterprises looking to embrace cloud and hosting solutions, Vormetric gives Rackspace's customers the ability to use Vormetric's Transparent Encryption solution within Rackspace environments," explained Vormetric's vice president of cloud, C.J. Radford. "By using Vormetric Transparent Encryption, Rackspace customers can seamlessly protect data with encryption and access controls, keep control of encryption keys within the enterprise, and gather the security intelligence that can identify when an attack is in progress."

To learn more about leveraging Vormetric Transparent Encryption in Rackspace environments, visit http://www.rackspace.com.  

To learn more about Vormetric Data Protection solutions, visit http://www.vormetric.com.
To learn more about Vormetric's Cloud Partner Program, visit http://www.vormetric.com/cloudpartners.

About Vormetric

Vormetric (@Vormetric) is the industry leader in data security solutions that span physical, virtual and cloud environments. Vormetric helps over 1300 customers, including 17 of the Fortune 30 and many of the world's most security conscious government organizations, to meet compliance requirements and protect what matters —their sensitive data —from both internal and external threats. The company's scalable solution protects any file, any database and any application — within enterprise data center, cloud, big data environments  — with a high performance, market-leading Vormetric Data Security Platform that incorporates application transparent encryption, access controls and security intelligence. Vormetric – because data can't defend itself.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of Rackspace Hosting could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements concerning expected development, performance or market acceptance associated with the Rackspace's hybrid cloud solutions, cloud services or other associated products and services; anticipated operational and financial benefits from Rackspace's hybrid cloud solutions, cloud services or other associated products and services; including any statements concerning expected development, performance or operational results related to any particular customer or customers of our customers associated with our cloud solutions; any other statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include including the possibility that expected benefits from the Rackspace cloud network program or the products and services offered through the Rackspace cloud network program may not materialize because the products or services are not generally accepted in the marketplace, which could occur due to certain factors including (i) a failure to market the products or services cost effectively, differentiate the products and services from competitive products and services or communicate differentiations effectively, (ii) the reliability, quality or compatibility associated with the products or services, (iii) changes in technology which adversely affect the benefits of the product, (iv) slowdowns in the general economy or technology industry that impact consumer spending habits, (v) internal strategy decisions that impact the platform, products and services; (vi) issues relating to the performance of a customer's configuration caused by forces outside of the control of Rackspace; and other risks that are described in Rackspace Hosting's Form 10-Q for the year ended March 31, 2012, filed with the SEC on May 9, 2013. Except as required by law, Rackspace Hosting assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.

Vormetric is a trademark of Vormetric, Inc

SOURCE Vormetric

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