Tokyo, December 2, 2009 - International Systems Research Co. (ISR), Google Enterprise Partner based in Tokyo, Japan, announced today the release of Cloud Gate Single Sign-on (SSO) ASP Single Tenant Mode on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new implementation of Cloud Gate SSO allows corporations to scale up thousands of users quickly and inexpensively while maintaining the highest levels of security and reliability.

  Cloud computing services are becoming more widely adopted than ever before, and are gaining greater acceptance in the business community. It is expected that cloud computing will become mainstream over the course of the next few years. It represents a shift from "possession" to "utilization" of information systems that we no longer own but simply make use of when needed. As the leading Cloud Computing service for the enterprise, "Google Apps" has been adopted by a large number of business users in Japan. Google Apps reduces IT costs and enhances the efficiency and agility of the business.

  Cloud Gate SSO is designed to provide security in the cloud for business users. By using Cloud Gate SSO, enterprise users can embrace the same or a higher level security policy than that of their own intranet. The new release of Cloud Gate SSO on Amazon EC2 realizes Elastic Computing, making it possible to respond quickly to any sudden user expansion. Cloud Gate partners can address a wide range of sales opportunities from tens of thousands to several hundred thousand of users, while the deployment time can be greatly shortened.

  The on-demand pricing model of Amazon EC2 helps achieve significant cost efficiencies, thus a further volume discount becomes possible in the Cloud Gate ASP Service for a large-scale deployment. From the high availability point of view, implementing on Amazon EC2 makes it possible to enhance the SLA of Cloud Gate ASP Service to 99.95%.

  As a further development to the Cloud Gate Lineup, ISR is now porting the "Cloud Gate Security Storage" (a service for storing Gmail attachments in local Data Centers) on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

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About Google Enterprise Partner
  Google Enterprise Partners consist of value-added service providers, system integrators, consultants and independent software vendors. With the Google Enterprise specialists trained by Google, Google Enterprise Partners provide the Google Enterprise solution and consulting service based on their field of specialty. For more information about Google Enterprise Partner, please visit www.google.com/enterprise/gep.

About Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides re-sizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. For more information about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, please visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

About International Systems Research Co.
  Established in Tokyo in 1993, ISR is a pioneer in the development of mobile internet and data security solutions. As one of the first 10 Google Apps for Enterprise partners worldwide, ISR provides cloud security products and services with enhanced features including Single Sign-on with two-factor authentication. ISR joined the Google Enterprise Professional™ program in April 2008 and is actively engaged in helping to make Google Apps the standard for productivity applications on the SaaS space.
  The ISR website is at www.isr.co.jp.