Securing Private and Hybrid Clouds
While much attention has been paid to public clouds such as Amazon and Google, security concerns will continue to prevent large enterprises from moving mission-critical applications (beyond emails) to the public clouds. Indeed, most analysts agree that private clouds will remain the bulk of the cloud market (at over 70%) in the foreseeable future . Impressive growth at virtualization companies such as VMware has mostly been driven by enterprises building out their private clouds. Except for a small number of hybrid cloud providers (most notably Harris' Trusted Enterprise Cloud) that are engineered the from ground up to meet the cloud security requirements set by U.S. Federal guidelines including NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), information assurance will only be achieved in private cloud deployments. In fact, Forrester Research predicts the private cloud market will rise from $7.8 billion in 2011 to more than $15 billion in 2020 and we believe security is a key enabler for this growth.
Bayshore SingleKey™ 650 Information Assurance firewalls are specifically designed and built to secure private and hybrid cloud environments. SingleKey™ 650 firewalls are rack-mountable appliances that feature multi-core hardware architecture with high-speed optical networking (up to 40 gigabits/sec hardware capability) and encryption/decryption co-processors. With SingleKey™ 650, customers can embed Layer 7 policy-enforcement capability directly into the cloud network’s infrastructure and can protect dozens or hundreds of different applications simultaneously.
For technical details of Bayshore's uniquely effective approach to securing private clouds, view our white paper: Securing Private Clouds.