REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Altor Networks, provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security solutions, today announced that it has received the 2009 Frost & Sullivan North American Product Innovation Award in server virtualization security.

Altor Networks was recognized for its outstanding overall performance in the areas of innovation, competitive strategy and the rate of industry adoption.

"The Altor VF solution has been designed based on expert insight into virtualized server environments to address critical server virtualization security loopholes. This has been achieved by enabling Information IT administrators to closely monitor inter-Virtual Machine (VM) data packet flow and implement security policies specific to each VM," stated Gaurav Sundararaman, research analyst, Frost & Sullivan, in the report. "The solution has also come at a time when enterprises are getting a better handle on emerging security issues in virtualized server environments."

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation is presented each year to the company that has demonstrated excellence in new products and technologies within its industry. The recipient company has shown innovation by launching a broad line of emerging products and technologies.

The Altor VF virtual firewall with intrusion detection offers defense-in-depth virtualization security with mission critical reliability for those applications carrying high value business traffic. Most customers see throughput performance that is in most cases 20 times greater than that of virtual firewalls running as virtual machine appliances. Purpose-built for the virtual environment, the Altor VF delivers the features necessary to not only interoperate but also optimize the virtual network for secure operation.

Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices.

To view the report, please visit http://go.altornetworks.com/go/frostsullivan-award.

About Altor Networks

Altor Networks is the leading innovator and provider of virtualization solutions to secure data centers and clouds. The company's products include the industry's first-ever purpose-built virtual firewall. Now in its third release, Altor's virtual security solution includes integrated intrusion detection and virtual network monitoring. Data center administrators can use Altor to pinpoint a broad range of virtual network security risks and easily create the security policies that mitigate those risks and effect compliance. Security policies can be continuously enforced on individual virtual machines, even as they move throughout the virtualized data center. Founded by security and networking experts from Check Point Software, Cisco, NetApp and Oracle, Altor Networks is funded by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. For more information, visit www.altornetworks.com.