FireHost and Gazzang Partner to Bring Database Encryption to Leading Cloud Hosting Platform

Gazzang, Inc., the company securing data in the cloud, today announced FireHost, a fully-managed Web hosting company, will sell Gazzang ezNcrypt. A member of the Cloud Security Alliance, FireHost recently announced the industry's first PCI 2.0 compliant, public cloud. Now, clients who host database servers in FireHost's compliance-ready hosting solution will have access to Gazzang's transparent data encryption solution to help prevent unauthorized access, even from system administrators with full root access.

Gazzang makes cloud computing enterprise-ready. Our secure Platform-as-a-Service solutions help organizations address the inherent risk associated with open source software tools, beginning with data encryption of databases and ultimately migrating all the way up the LAMP stack. With clients in financial services, healthcare, higher education and innovation, we know what it takes to deliver secure, compliant business services in today's uncertain cloud environments. Gazzang is backed by Austin Ventures, with offices in Houston and Austin, Texas. For more info, visit www.gazzang.com.

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