Key Pair intros cloud security and virtualization products

Key Pair Technologies announced a
family of products designed to address the need for increasingly
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solutions to support building
and operating public and private clouds. Each product in the family
is optimized to address the differing needs of customers who are
planning to leverage cloud computing to achieve their business
objectives.

Key Pair unveils the following products
to address the security gaps and challenges in migrating to a cloud
environment:

• Key Pair Cloud Security-
  SME edition: Addresses Small and Medium Business (SMB) and
  Enterprise (SME) market segments. As a drop-ship box/soft appliance
  with High Availability (HA), the product provides key features such as
  Web and host single sign-on (Web SSO and Host SSO), SAML 2.0 based
  federated authentication, pre-integrated adapters for credential
  store/authentication, including AD/LDAP, RADIUS, Kerberos-KDC and ODBC,
  as well as, agentless application integration. The product optionally
  supports Firewall for infrastructure security, access policy
  enforcement and multi-factor authentication with built-in Mobile OTP
  server and smart phone client.

• Key Pair Cloud Manager -
  Enterprise edition: Designed to enable, secure and manage
  enterprise private clouds on virtual platforms. As a soft appliance
  with multiple fast path processing engines, the product provides
  virtualized, hypervisor agnostic, Firewall with inter-VM and intra-VM
  authentication and authorization to enable multi-tenancy, in-line
  policy enforcement and application SSO. Included are interfaces to
  external policy management servers, resource management, monitoring and
  full auditing and compliance capability.

• Key Pair Cloud Manager - Data
  Center edition: Coming later this year, the Data Center edition
  extends the Enterprise edition, to address the specific needs of
  commercial datacenters including on demand access to computing
  resources, dynamic provisioning, allocation and pooling of resources,
  remote monitoring and application metering with the level of access
  control security needed for deployments in cloud. With these key
  features the product is tailored for 'pay-as-you-go' deployment models.

"The Key Pair Appliance product
for the SMB marketplace offers SAML assertion with agent less
application integration in a drop-ship, zero-day deployment mode at a
speed approaching 10x of other competing products. The Key Pair
enterprise solution has solved a problem challenging many of today's
leading IT organizations of seamlessly enforcing centralized security
policies in virtual environments. And with an eye to the evolution of
infrastructure as a service, the Key Pair Data Center solution
enables datacenters to host secure private clouds on a pay-as-you-go
basis," said Shivaram Mysore, Chief Technology Officer and
Founder, Key Pair Technologies.