Cloud security platform: with $18.5 Million raised in Series C, HyTrust Accelerates its Growth.

Due to its ability to innovate and anticipation, HyTrust has once more, the confidence of the investors. For the first time, $18.5 Million has been raised from new investors Intel Capital and Fortinet as well as recent investors VMware and In-Q-Tel. Previous investors Granite Ventures, Cisco, Trident Capital and Epic Ventures also participated in this round and Intel Corporation engagement will help the company deliver hardware assisted
trusted security solution for the datacenter.

With these new funds, HyTrust will support its rapid growth and operations, particularly in the areas of sales and marketing, and enable continued development on the cloud security platform as well as innovations in important technological areas such as Role-Based Monitoring (RBM).

Connectikpeople has also observed that, HyTrust’s Series C financing round follows a year of rapid growth and momentum, with worldwide sales on target to quadruple in 2013 alone.

Connectikpeople may recall that, HyTrust delivers security, control, visibility, management and compliance to virtualized environments. Fortinet’s protection of virtual machines complements HyTrust’s protection of the virtual infrastructure to automate and orchestrate security across the entire virtualized data center.

About HyTrust

Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, HyTrust^® is the Cloud Security Automation (CSA) Company. HyTrust delivers the essential real-time control, security, administrative account monitoring, logging and compliance assurance necessary to enable the benefits of cloud adoption and virtualization of critical workloads.