InfoWorld's Test Center Honors Vyatta as Best Datacenter and Cloud Software

BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 13, 2011) - Vyatta, the leader in software-based networking for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, has been awarded its fourth straight InfoWorld Bossie Award for best open source software solution for the data center and cloud.

WHAT:
Each year, InfoWorld recognizes the best of open source software for businesses with the Bossie Awards. Leading solution providers, such as Vyatta, are nominated by InfoWorld readers and winners are selected by InfoWorld's Test Center editors and reviewers.

WHY:
Vyatta Network OS routing and security software is enabling enterprises to secure data and applications in the cloud with optimized network virtual machines for every hypervisor -- VMware, Xen, XenServer, Red Hat KVM -- and in the Amazon cloud. Vyatta virtual networking enables IT to segment, isolate and securely access remote applications with a new generation of networking solutions that offer the same elasticity and mobility as other cloud applications.

QUOTE:
"In addition to validating our position as an industry leader, winning a Bossie Award for the fourth straight year demonstrates Vyatta's powerful, and growing, feature set that continues to define itself as a premier alternative to traditional networking," said Tom McCafferty, vice president of marketing at Vyatta. "As cloud adoption increases, Vyatta is in an optimal position as enterprise networks move to on-demand virtualized network architectures."

ABOUT:
Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based network operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware as well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security suite capable of uniquely addressing the next-generation infrastructure requirements of flexibility, on-demand delivery and platform independence. Thousands of physical and virtual infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected and protected by Vyatta. For more information, please visit http://www.vyatta.com. Read Vyatta CEO Kelly Herrell's Blog "Opening The Networking Industry" and follow Vyatta on Twitter: @Vyatta.