CloudPassage Selected for the 2011 Red Herring 100 Global Award

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security company, announced today that it has been selected as a candidate for Red Herring's 2011 Top 100 Global award, a prestigious recognition honoring the year's most audacious and far reaching private technology companies and entrepreneurs from across the globe.

"We're further honored to be selected as a finalist for the 2011 Red Herring Top 100 Global award," said Carson Sweet, CEO of CloudPassage.  "Making the Red Herring 100 North America was a privilege, and this award further validates that our approach to cloud infrastructure security is hitting the sweet spot of a huge growth market.  The 100 Global is very significant, and we are elated."

The Red Herring editorial team selected the companies demonstrating the most innovative technologies and business models originating from over 1000 companies from over 40 nations.  These companies, representing past Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America awards, are judged on a range of qualitative and quantitative metrics, including but not limited to, technology innovation, financial performance, growth criterion, management's execution standards, potential globalization of the strategy and market share improvement.

"Technology companies are becoming the bright spot in the economic outlook based on their increasing role within macro-economic environments," stated Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring.  "2011 has confirmed the sector's vibrant activity and its resilience to widespread economic problems.  An unprecedented number of entrepreneurs are attempting to jump ahead of the competition and aspire to make a difference.  Breakthroughs obsolete each other faster than ever before.  CloudPassage has performed exceptionally in its field and strongly deserves to be singled out as one of the Red Herring Global Finalists."

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Global forum in Los Angeles, December 5-7, 2011.  The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on December 7 at the event.

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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