Cloud Computing: Virtustream Aligns with SafeNet

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Liz McMillan.

Virtustream and SafeNet on Tuesday announced that they have entered into an agreement that will incorporate SafeNet’s market-leading authentication solutions into Virtustream’s enterprise cloud platform, xStream.

"Enterprises looking to deploy the cloud want both enterprise-grade performance and security, while still benefiting from the scalability and economics of multi-tenant virtualization technology," said Dr. Shaw Chuang, Executive Vice President of Engineering, Virtustream. "Incorporating SafeNet’s authentication platform brings another best-of-breed offering to our platform and lays the foundation for further extensive security capabilities."…

The rapid growth and evolution of the cloud market is generating new vulnerabilities, and evolving business requirements are calling for strong authentication for enterprise cloud solutions. The incorporation of SafeNet Authentication Manager into xStream brings secure cloud access from tablets and mobile devices via two-factor identity authentication. The new capability provides hybrid identity cloud model capability and centrally-managed authentication services, which extends the foundation for enterprise-level authentication, authorization, and auditing on the xStream platform.

"We’re excited to have Virtustream leverage our data protection solutions to the xStream enterprise cloud," said Chen Arbel, Director, Business Development at SafeNet. "SafeNet’s Authentication Manager enables customers such as Virtustream to easily extend their security infrastructure to keep pace with new and emerging issues, ensuring that data remains protected, whether it is in the enterprise or in the public or private cloud."

Virtustream is also a member of the SafeNet System Integrators and Alliance Partners, through which the two companies will work together to offer their integrated solutions to meet the growing cloud and security challenges of enterprises worldwide.

xStream is the industry’s first cloud solution to use Virtustream µVM (Micro-VM) technology to provide efficiency that extends significantly beyond traditional virtualization, and enables a truly consumption-based pricing model. The xStream platform supports complex enterprise IT systems, providing companies with a robust, secure cloud environment built from the ground up for enterprise applications. The Virtustream cloud platform enables customers to move both legacy and Web-scale applications to the cloud so that they may benefit from compelling cloud economics by offering industry-leading application-level SLAs in a highly secure cloud with built-in data protection and disaster recovery.