Altor Networks, provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security, today announced that it is the recipient of
Frost & Sullivan’s "2009 Server Virtualization Security Leadership of the Year” award.
Altor Networks was recognized for its outstanding overall performance in the areas of innovation, business development, competitive strategy as well as the rate of industry adoption.
The Frost & Sullivan Technology Leadership of the Year Award is bestowed each year on the company that has demonstrated excellence in technology leadership within its industry. This includes excelling in all stages of the technology life cycle—incubation, adaptation, take-up, and maturity—to ensure a continuous flow of improvements.
The Altor VF virtual firewall with intrusion detection offers defense-in-depth virtualization security with mission critical reliability for those applications carrying high value business traffic. Most customers see throughput performance that is in most cases 20 times greater than that of virtual firewalls running as virtual machine appliances. Purpose-built for the virtual environment, the Altor VF delivers the features necessary to not only interoperate but also optimize the virtual network for secure operation.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices.