SCIENCE

Novell has been recognized in the first annual HPC in the Cloud Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards, presented at the 2010 Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA. The HPC in the Cloud team, including Tomas Tabor, publisher of HPC in the Cloud, and Nicole Hemsoth, managing editor for the online publication, presented the award on the show floor of the event.

Novell was recognized with the Editors' Choice: 2010 Cloud Security Leader Award. The company tied with IBM for its leadership in data security and cloud innovation. Dipto Chakravarty, vice president of engineering, for security management and operating platforms at Novell, said the award is gladly received by their team.

"We have made significant strides in bringing the data security element into cloud computing," said Chakravarty. "Novell will continue to lead in cloud security innovation in order to secure environments for all types of user interaction with on-and off-premise services."

"It's exciting to present this award, in its first year of inception, honoring achievement at the extreme-scale leading-edge of cloud computing," said Nicole Hemsoth, managing editor of HPC in the Cloud. "After much collaboration with our editors and contributors, we came up with a list of winners who were truly pushing the envelope in high performance cloud computing, and really driving the technology forward. We'd like to congratulate all of our winners, and look forward to seeing the envelope being pushed in high-performance cloud computing from the recipients for years to come."

In its first year, the HPC in the Cloud Editors' Choice Awards are determined through a rigorous selection process involving the publication's editors and industry luminaries to determine the leaders in the extreme-scale leading-edge of cloud computing. The categories include Cloud Innovation Leader, Cloud Security Leader, Cloud Platform Innovators, Cloud Ecosystem Innovators, Cloud Management Innovators, Cloud Networking Innovators, Enterprise Cloud Leader and Cloud Outreach and Education Innovators. The awards are an annual feature of the HPC in the Cloud publication.