AFORE

AFORE CloudLink™, named Best of VMworld 2011 Gold Winner for Security and Compliance, is an on-ramp to the cloud solution for private, public and hybrid cloud computing. CloudLink addresses three fundamental issues: security, performance and manageability. It provides secure, optimized and managed communications between the enterprise and cloud infrastructure and extends security, control and performance optimization from the enterprise data center into the cloud environment.

Enterprise’s Barrier to Deploying Cloud Services

Security: Trusted Multi-Tenancy for compute, networks & storage layers
Performance: High-performance block cipher plus optimized networking
Availability: SLAs monitoring with end-to-end intelligence
Integration: Integrated management across private, public and hybrid cloud boundaries

Key Cloudlink Features

Seamless integration with VMware vCloud Director™, vCloud Connector™, and vSphere™, CA AppLogic
Encrypts all communications to the cloud (In-motion)
Encrypts storage in the cloud (At Rest)
Provides enterprises and service providers a Trusted Multi-Tenancy Solution by giving enterprises control over encryption keys and the security policies
Active Directory integration & RSA DPM support for interfacing key managers
Powerful SLA monitoring and diagnostics
Dual management for cloud providers and enterprises
True data center network extension into the cloud
Scalable to many tenants & multiple data centers

Customer Values

Unlock the economic benefits of the cloud
Remove the key barriers to cloud adoption (security, performance & management)
Allow enterprises to safely employ hybrid clouds
Protect existing data center IT investments
Enable secure disaster recovery in the IaaS cloud
True trust multi-tenancy security, performance management, traffic management and SLA.

Differentiate Cloud Providers with CloudLink as a Service