Cloud security provider Trend Micro Inc. has introduced its Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers program to the channel. The new global initiative is designed to make it possible for SMBs to confidently and securely move into the public cloud.
The new program will enable both Trend Micro and select Trend Ready partners to verify the compatibility of Trend Micro products within leading cloud service providers’ infrastructures. By participating in the program, cloud service providers are confirming to their SMBs customers that their cloud infrastructures will support and work with Trend Micro products.
Among the public cloud service providers that have worked with Trend Micro in achieving the Trend Ready status are Amazon Web Services, Dell, HP Cloud Services, NTT Communications, OpSource, Dimension Data Company, Savvis, and Telefonica.
The Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers program is designed to guide, educate, and deliver a proven compatible solution suite that helps customers understand cloud, overcome adoption inhibitors, and safely adopt public cloud computing via verified Trend Ready partners and through the purchase and use of Trend Micro products and services. Currently, the program verifies the compatibility of Trend Micro Deep Security and Trend Micro SecureCloud, two world-leading virtualization and cloud security solutions.
“Though all software companies verify their solutions against leading hardware products, Trend Micro is the first software company to extend this verification to include cloud infrastructures,” says Trend Micro CP Steve Quane. “Hybrid cloud infrastructures are commonplace for our customers and we are proud to be working with this marquee group of cloud service providers to enable stronger security and greater cloud deployments.”
In addition to verification of product compatibility with identified Trend Micro products, participants in the Trend Ready program will also be provided with Implementation Guides to share with their customers describing the best practices and recommended configurations for deployment of specified Trend Micro products in their cloud infrastructures.
Current products verified in the Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers program include:
- Trend Micro Deep Security – An agentless security platform that delivers comprehensive agent-based protection that includes anti-malware, Web reputation, intrusion prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring, and log inspection.
- Deep Security 9 – Additional performance and ease-of-use enhancements to the agentless architecture.
- Trend Micro SecureCloud – Hosted service or on-premise software application that provides data protection for public and private clouds.
