Afore Joins EMC Select Partner Program

AFORE
Solutions, Inc., provider of cloud security and management solutions,
announced that its CloudLink Secure Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) solution is
available through EMC
Select, a partner program which enables customers to acquire pre-tested and
certified products for an information infrastructure.

Customers that take advantage of this relationship by deploying integrated
solutions from AFORE and EMC can purchase a complete solution for enhanced
security and regulatory compliance.

CloudLink Secure VSA provides encryption of data at-rest and in-motion in
virtualized IT and multi-tenant cloud environments. It is a
scalable software security solution that delivers per tenant data encryption
and enables control over security and key management by enterprise IT
administrator or data owner. In addition, cloudLink provides integrated key
management with certified RSA Data Protection Management (DPM) or Microsoft’s
Active Directory.

"We are delighted to join the EMC
Select program and partner with EMC and RSA on delivering advance data
protection and security solutions," said James LaPalme , VP sales and
marketing at AFORE. "The
ability to securely encrypt and manage data in virtualized and multi-tenant
cloud environments, especially considering compliance and regulatory issues, is
a requisite function for businesses of all sizes. The tight integration of
cloudLink Secure VSA with EMC’s enterprise and cloud storage platforms and
RSA’s data protection technology delivers a trusted and compelling solution."

"Data confidentiality is the
dominant security hurdle for adoption of cloud computing. Enterprises demand a
robust data encryption solution that gives them strong control over encryption
keys," said Nirav Mehta, director of product management at RSA. "Our relationship with AFORE, and the integration
with cloudLink Secure VSA enables us to provide the most complete solution to
combat this problem."

AFORE’s CloudLink security solution enables regulatory compliance (HIPPA, PCI,
SOX), and delivers protection of sensitive data with AES-256 encryption of data
at-rest and AES-256 encrypted software-defined network overlays for data
in-motion. CloudLink Secure VSA has been certified Vblock Read. by VCE to run
on Vblock Infrastructure Platforms and is designed to work in multi-tenant, private,
hybrid and public clouds including VMware’s vCloud, Microsoft Azure, CA’s
AppLogic and Amazon EC2 and VPC environments.