Fortify Announces Strategic Partnership With Key Pair Technologies

PRESS RELEASE

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify Infrastructure Services (Fortify), a leading IT infrastructure services company, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Key Pair Technologies (Key Pair), an innovative product and solutions company for managing and securing distributed applications and resources in the cloud.

"We are very excited to partner with Key Pair, the leader in access control security and policy enforcement in the cloud. Together, Fortify and Key Pair can provide a complete solution for migrating and managing cloud resources," said Rich Marino, Chief Delivery Officer of Fortify. "As cloud adoption increases, we will work together to ensure our customers and business partners achieve their goals in a rapid and timely manner."

Effective today, the partnership will combine technology and Managed Services to provide comprehensive cloud computing solutions for enterprise companies and data centers. Fortify customers, which include leading FORTUNE 1000½ companies, will utilize Key Pair's patent pending Cloud Secure and Cloud Manager solutions to directly address resource management and security concerns in the cloud. Fortify will bring its proven implementation methodologies and value-added services to the partnership, allowing customers to successfully migrate to large-scale cloud environments.

Fortify's enhanced cloud services consist of the following services:

-- Cloud Security Services - Is a best-of-breed set of services that offer dynamic provisioning and de-provisioning, policy enforcement, virtual firewall and hosted, federated single sign-on services for enterprises and data centers. These value-added services are wrapped around Key Pair's enterprise and Data Center products. -- Cloud Management Service - Is a scalable monitoring service which manages both cloud and on-premises systems and keeps the infrastructure up and running. Fortify's own integrated service management software, MOATIS, coupled with Key Pair's platform will bring the ability to monitor multiple clouds from a common interface. Besides resource management this service will be expanded to include cloud metering to track the usage of individual clouds.

"Fortify's decision to partner with us further strengthens our security centric approach to cloud management," said Ramana Mylavarapu, SVP of Product Engineering of Key Pair. "With significant experience in managing enterprise and data center infrastructures globally, Fortify will help us expand into new markets, enabling customers to benefit from the proven services delivery capabilities of Fortify and the flexibility and excellence of Key Pair technology."

About Fortify

Fortify is a leading provider of IT services. Focused on delivering strategic information technology solutions that address the complex business needs of its clients, Fortify uses its own on-site/offshore outsourcing model to provide infrastructure services, application services, and business process outsourcing. Find additional information about Fortify at www.FortifyIS.com.

About Key Pair

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Key Pair Technologies Inc develops innovative products & solutions to address security challenges in virtualization and cloud deployments. For more information, please visit www.keypairtech.com.