Red Herring Unveils Global Top 100 Tech Startups; CloudPassage Honored With Global Award

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Herring announced its Global 100 award in recognition of the leading private companies from North America, Europe, and Asia.  CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security company, was selected for Red Herring's 2011 Top 100 Global award.

"Choosing the best out of the previous two years was by no means a small feat," said Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring.  "After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed down our list from 1,100 potential companies to 100 winners.  It was an extremely difficult process.  CloudPassage should be extremely proud of its achievement; the competition for the Top 100 was fierce.  The Top 100 Global are truly the best of the best."

Red Herring's Global 100 list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising companies and entrepreneurs.  Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Google, Skype, Baidu, Salesforce.com, YouTube, eBay and many others would change the way we live and work. 

"We're further honored to receive 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."

Red Herring's editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration.  This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list an invaluable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the greatest business opportunities from around the world.

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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