CohesiveFT Announces Security for Cloud-Computing Environments By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, October 28 2008
VPN-CubedTM is the first commercial offering that
enables customer-controlled security in and across
clouds.
CHICAGO, IL-October 28, 2008- CohesiveFT, the
leader in automated software assembly, today
introduced VPN-CubedTM www.cohesiveft.com/vpncubed,
an encrypted virtual private network (VPN) enabling
customer-controlled security inside a single cloud,
across multiple clouds, and between clouds and private
infrastructure. By creating a secure bridge between the
customer's data center, as well as between multiple
cloud-computing providers, CohesiveFT helps customers
establish their own security perimeter for cloud-based
assets, thereby solving a critical obstacle to
cloud-computing adoption. With VPN-Cubed, companies
can confidently leverage the cloud for redundancy,
failover and scalability during critical transitions;
whether scaling up to grow the business or scaling down
to cut costs.
"In the same way an Enterprise maintains control of
sensitive data in a physical data center, VPN-Cubed
offers security and control in the cloud," said Patrick
Kerpan, chief technology officer at CohesiveFT.
"VPN-Cubed acts as an encrypted LAN in a single cloud
and as an encrypted WAN across multiple clouds,
allowing cloud-based clusters to appear to be part of
one physical network. Enterprises can grow their
services horizontally and achieve better risk reduction
and fault tolerance at the same time."
VPN-Cubed is based on trusted, open standards and
technologies including the open source software project
OpenVPN. Unlike the VPN approaches commonly used
to connect remote employees and offices, CohesiveFT's
VPN-Cubed product runs inside cloud-computing
facilities with failover capability that keeps cloud clusters
running reliably even in the event of a VPN server
failure. The company has offered a precursor to the
VPN-Cubed product in production for more than a year
via the Open Source VcubeV project.
"CohesiveFT has not only paved the way for OOI to
leverage dynamic assembly and on-the-fly virtual server
creation, but they have anticipated the security needs of
the Enterprise and delivered a simple and elegant
solution," said Matthew Arrott, Ocean Observatories
Institute (OOI) Cyberinfrastructure Program Manager
at the University of California San Diego. "By giving
customers this additional layer of control, VPN-Cubed
removes one of the final barriers preventing companies
from realizing the cost and efficiency benefits of
cloud-computing."
Cloud computing is highly scalable access to computing,
storage and network resources delivered via the
Internet as a pay-per-use service. According to IDC, a
global provider of market intelligence, cloud computing
is poised to capture 25% of IT growth spend by 2012.
Yet, in a recent IDC survey, 74% of IT executives/CIOs
cited security as the top challenge preventing their
adoption of the cloud services model. Today, clouds are
secured by their providers; CohesiveFT's VPN-Cubed
gives customers the confidence to utilize cloud
computing by offering a layer of security that the
customer controls.
VPN-Cubed features and specifications:
- Customer-controlled security using an encrypted LAN in a single cloud and an encrypted WAN across multiple
clouds
- Enhanced security via VPN-Cubed, in addition to customer's cloud vendor VLAN, and individual virtual
server firewalls
- Multicast support in the cloud enables seamless software compatibility without costly changes
- Customer-controlled network addresses for their devices in a cloud or across multiple clouds
- Enables failover strategies from one cloud vendor to another
- Customer-controlled encryption of the communication between devices in the cloud VPN
- Available for use with most operating systems, virtual environments and third-party cloud offerings including
Amazon EC2 and Flexiscale
CohesiveFT's new VPN-Cubed product is a complement
to the company's award-winning Elastic Server®
platform www.elasticserver.com for real-time,
automated assembly of virtual servers and custom
application stacks. Users choose from a component
library consisting of open source, third-party, and
proprietary customer code, and assemble cloud- or
virtual environment-destined servers in minutes. The
automated assembly process dramatically improves
the quality and consistency of application stack builds
at the same time that it reduces the time to market.
VPN-Cubed is a packaged service offering available
now. To learn more, visit www.cohesiveft.com/vpncubed
or contact a CohesiveFT account representative at sales
(at)cohesiveft.com.
About CohesiveFT
CohesiveFT enables customers to dynamically define
and deploy servers for virtual environments and clouds.
The company's flagship platform, Elastic Server®, is a
web-based "factory" for creating, deploying and
managing custom, multi-sourced assemblies comprised
of horizontal, open source and third-party software
components. Elastic Servers can be saved as templates,
updated, augmented, or redeployed in minutes. In
addition to the self-service platform, the company offers
packaged solutions for custom cloud implementations.
CohesiveFT was founded in 2006 by principals with deep
backgrounds in Enterprise IT, Commercial ISVs and
multiple successful startups. CohesiveFT was listed
among InformationWeek's "top cloud computing
startups you should know." The company has offices in
London, Chicago and Palo Alto. For more information,
visit www.cohesiveft.com.
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