Posts Tagged ‘secure managed hosting’
by FireHost Evangelist on September 13th, 2011
Today, we proudly announce that our Series B round of funding has closed. The investment, led by The Stephens Group as well as earlier angel investors, will fuel investments in growth and infrastructure and enable us to make the company mission of becoming the global provider of secure hosting in the cloud a reality. See the official press release for more details.
“This capital investment represents a huge vote of confidence in our secure hosting solutions for SMEs and our ever-growing enterprise customer base, including several Fortune 50 and many Fortune 500 companies,” said Chris Drake, FireHost founder and CEO.
Looking Back
Since day one, our goal has been simple – provide the most secure hosting solution available to businesses of all sizes. Not an easy task, but with a security-minded ethos and dedication to customer support, we’ve met the challenge and opportunity with brute force.
We’ve experienced triple-digit customer growth year-over-year and successfully secured tens of thousands of web applications in the process. Within the last eight months, we’ve made numerous improvements to our MyFireHost customer portal, including Security View, and the gratifying initiative of launching the industry’s first PCI-DSS 2.0 compliant public cloud. Strangely enough, we believe this merely scratches the surface of our capabilities.
Looking Ahead
This infusion of capital enables us to continue investing in secure infrastructure, increasing our market share in the hosting space, and focus on delivering exceptional security to our customers.
In the coming months, you can look forward to improved:
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Tags: cloud hosting, PCI Compliant Hosting, Secure Cloud Hosting, secure managed hosting, Website Hosting
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by FireHost Evangelist on April 26th, 2011
Security has arrived in the public cloud. With our latest service release announced today, Secure, Public Cloud Servers have now achieved PCI 2.0 Compliance.
The Origin
The latest PCI Data Security Standard announced in Q4 2010 addresses security and virtualization and all the controversy surrounding these two topics. As a participating member of the PCISSC, we decided to take the Council’s challenge head on by achieving PCI 2.0 compliance for ourselves and creating a secure, public cloud offering unlike anything else in the industry.
The Outcome
Secure Cloud Servers take the scalability and autonomy that makes public clouds so great a step further by providing:
- High availability for every customer
- Up to 8 processors
- Up to 84 GB RAM
- Unlimited storage available
- Managed backup snapshots with 14 day retention
- And more (of course)
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Tags: cloud hosting, PCI Compliant Hosting, Secure Cloud Hosting, secure managed hosting, Website Hosting
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by FireHost Evangelist on April 5th, 2011
We’re pleased to announce that the entire FireHost team is now operating out of our new, mission critical headquarter facility in Richardson, TX.
Months in the making, our new corporate office embodies FireHost’s stance on security and takes our commitment to secure, contiguous support a step further. The following precautions contribute to the facility’s mission critical infrastructure and hospital-grade redundancy, designed to help us serve our customers to the very fullest under a variety of circumstances.
- Fully operational internal data center
- Backup generators
- Multiple Internet providers
- Secure keycard access with role based control
- Video surveillance
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Tags: Application Protection, mission critical office space, Secure Cloud Hosting, secure managed hosting, secure servers, Website Protection, Website Security
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by FireHost Evangelist on February 17th, 2011
At FireHost, we continually strive to make the unique secure hosting services we provide even better. Our top priority is keeping our customers running securely and worry-free around the clock.
With that, we’re pleased to announce our expansion into a new data center facility in April 2011. The new facility is located in Richardson, Texas and represents FireHost’s third data center footprint in the US. The new facility brings a serious set of top-notch security, connectivity and redundancy features that will not only benefit our new customers, but also our existing customers who will migrate from our current Dallas facility.
Here are some of the major benefits you’ll experience with our data center expansion:
Redundant Connectivity Infrastructure
- Diverse fiber entry and intra-building fiber paths
- Fully redundant internal network distribution
- Multiple 10 Gbps connections from multiple premium carriers
Redundant Power Infrastructure
- Complete 2N Electrical Infrastructure
- Redundant Utility Feeds
- Redundant Transformers in Ring Configuration
- Redundant Power Distribution Units (PDU)
- Redundant 2,000 kw Diesel Generators
- 72+ hours fuel supply onsite with priority re-fueling status
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Tags: Hipaa Compliant Hosting, PCI Compliance, PCI Compliant Hosting, Secure Cloud Hosting, secure managed hosting, secure servers
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by FireHost Evangelist on October 20th, 2010
International, national, and even local considerations shape IT Security policies for the whole industry. However, as security and information technology professionals, it’s often difficult to find time to step away from our desks and really evaluate the scope of the ever-changing environment in which we operate. SecureWorld events provide the perfect opportunity to do just that.
With events across the nation, SecureWorld Expositions provide the platform and venue for leaders and “doers” in information technology and security to collaborate and make strides toward the end goal of comprehensive, globally unified security policies. All while earning 16 CPE credits that may be applied to your CISSP.
Chris Davis, Director of Security and Compliance at FireHost will be part of an industry panel attacking the difficult issue of Effective Compliance Management in Today’s Workplace. The best security minds from ArcSight, Shavlik, and Tripwire will participate in the hour long conversation scheduled for November 3rd in Dallas as well.
FireHost is proud to help lead an event that provides such broad reach on a global topic, and we invite you to use discount code “FIREDAL10″ when registering to receive a significant savings off the published rates. If you can’t make it to Dallas next month, perhaps one of SecureWorld Expo‘s future events will fit your schedule.
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Tags: secure managed hosting, Secure World Expo Dallas, SecureWorld Expo 2010, SWE Dallas
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