2014 SVC Awards Recognises CohesiveFT for Cloud Networking Successes

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Sep 30, 2014) - The Storage Virtualisation Cloud (SVC) Awards today announced CohesiveFT's cloud networking product, VNS3, is a finalist in two award categories for its innovative approach to uniting and securing private, public and hybrid cloud deployments.

VNS3 does cloud networking differently by creating networks over top of existing cloud infrastructure to connect data centres and clouds to create a hybrid mesh network. CohesiveFT delivers a software-based networking application designed to fit customers' needs for public, private, or hybrid clouds as well as traditional data centres.

Award Nominations:
The Cloud Security Product of the Year nomination highlights successful 2014 VNS3 deployments, while the Vendor Reseller Channel Program of the Year award recognises CohesiveFT's ongoing work to offer VNS3 as a part of a broader cloud security solution.

"The success of VNS3 means success for end customers, and we are proud to have never seen any major outage," said CohesiveFT co-founder and CEO Patrick Kerpan. "Our customers rely on VNS3 to operate both internal and external operations, VNS3 enables them and their partners to deliver mission-critical software and services to end users."

Now with VNS3 version 3.5, customers and partners can build Docker container systems into VNS3 Manager VM and manage network functions from within a single, secure network.

In the last year alone, CohesiveFT and VNS3 won the 2014 EuroCloud Awards for Best Offering IaaS/PaaS, the 2014 Cloud World Series Best Security Solution Award, 2014 DCS Awards for Datacentre ICT Networking Product of the Year, the 7th Global Security Challenge Summit pitch competition, were named Runners Up in the Storage, Virtualization, Cloud (SVC) Awards, won the 2013 International Datacenter & Cloud Awards, were named runners up in the 2013 Data Centre Solutions (DCS) Awards, and listed in the 2013 Top 100 Cloud Service Providers from Talkin' Cloud.

About Storage Virtualization Cloud (SVC) Awards
The Storage Virtualization Cloud (SVC) Awards reward the products, projects and services as well as honour companies and teams operating in the cloud, virtualization and storage sectors. The SVC Awards recognise the achievements of end-users, channel partners and vendors alike and in the case of the end-user category there was also an award made to the supplier who nominated the winning organisation. Winners are selected by public vote. To vote, visit: www.svcawards.com/voting.php

About CohesiveFT
CohesiveFT is a cloud native networking company. We have been helping enterprise organizations run production systems in the cloud since 2008. With VNS3, our network routing and security solution, customers can deploy and extend networks to public, private, and hybrid clouds. VNS3 delivers Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) anywhere customers do not control and manage their own hardware.

CohesiveFT is a pioneer in the enterprise cloud networking market and provides more application-controlled software defined networking than all competitors combined. The CohesiveFT team has decades of experience in enterprise software, operations and networking. To find out more, visit www.cohesiveft.com

VNS3 frees enterprise cloud computing users from underlying hardware and geography constraints. VNS3 allows customers in finance, healthcare, government and other highly regulated industries to operate, control, and configure networks without physical access to hardware. VNS3 3.5 is available in the Amazon Marketplace and the HP Public Cloud Marketplace.

VNS3 is a trademark of Cohesive Flexible Technologies Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Other product or company names mentioned may be trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.