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
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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.
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