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BigFix Competitive Upgrade Program Offers Enterprise IT Head Start in Doing More With Less in 2010
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) EMERYVILLE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/09/10 --
News Facts
-- BigFix, Inc. today announced a competitive upgrade program that offers
enterprise IT organizations 10 percent off the quoted renewal cost of
incumbent security and systems management software solutions.
-- The automatic discount aims to choke off the IT dinosaurs' consumption
of customer cash at a time when IT organizations question every dollar
spent on solutions of dubious effectiveness.
-- A broad segment of BigFix products qualify for the discount, including
the company's industry leading solutions for Asset Discovery, Patch
Management, Power Management, Security Configuration Management,
Software Asset Management, Software Distribution, and Vulnerability
Management.
-- BigFix offers the competitive upgrade discount both to direct sales
customers and through its growing network of reseller partners.
Background Information
-- The competitive upgrade program, taking inspiration from BigFix's 2010
IT Dinosaur Awards, comes at a time when enterprise organizations
increasingly question the cost, complexity, and effectiveness of
antiquated approaches to mission-critical systems and security
management services.
-- The IT industry has been hit by a double whammy of recession-driven
budget pressures and the sinking feeling that legacy information
security measures are no match for the latest waves of attacks and
breaches.
-- The BigFix competitive upgrade program offers the double benefit of
moving up to a demonstrably superior solution set at a better price.
-- More importantly, BigFix requires significantly less supporting
resources than competing solutions. The BigFix Unified Management
Platform can maintain effective communications with widely-distributed
managed endpoints over as little as 8 kBaud bandwidth connections. A
single BigFix Server -- usually a generic "Wintel" blade server -- can
manage up to 250,000 endpoints. At the endpoint, a single BigFix Agent
can execute policies covering the full range of BigFix systems
management and security services. Customers can truly do more with less.
BigFix Management Comment David Appelbaum, senior vice president of
marketing for BigFix, said, "IT dinosaurs have dominated the ecosystem for
eons, but as the IT management and security climate changes, we're all
learning just how fragile and ill-equipped they are to deal with life in the
21st century. Solutions in use today were simply not built for the
challenges that have become standard fare for IT organizations.
Architecturally, they're too heavy, require too much feeding -- both in
supporting IT resources and cash -- and their effectiveness is only as good
as their ability to operate within a distinct perimeter. Given the worldwide
migration to globally distributed infrastructures with significant
proportions of mobile devices, archaic dinosaur-era systems are simply
doomed to extinction."
BigFix Versus Legacy Systems
-- BigFix technologies, products, and solutions provide a single pane of
glass to see and operate essential systems management and security
services in enterprise IT infrastructures.
-- The company's products operate in a wide variety of operating
environments including Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, Linux, and mobile devices.
-- The BigFix ecosystem succeeds by distributing security and management
responsibilities to the computing devices themselves, using the
intelligent BigFix Agent to provide real-time visibility and control
anytime, anywhere, which is simply not possible using legacy solutions.
-- BigFix advantages include speed, high performance, flexibility and
scalability, and ease of use, while reducing the infrastructure and
training costs associated with the legacy systems and security
management.
Information Resources
-- BigFix Competitive Upgrade Program: www.bigfix.com/upgrade10/index.php
-- BigFix 2010 IT Dinosaur Video Contest: http://www.bigfix.com/dinoawards/
-- Tags: IT Dinosaur, BigFix, Symantec, LANDesk, Microsoft, McAfee,
competitive upgrade.
About BigFix
Founded in 1997, the BigFix®, Inc. solutions support a global portfolio of
A-list organizations in government, finance, retail, educational, industrial
and public utility sectors. BigFix revolutionizes IT infrastructure
management by replacing fragmented collections of single-purpose tools with
the industry's only unified visibility and control architecture that
consolidates up to 18 security, IT compliance, decision support, and green
computing functions. For more information, visit
www.bigfix.com, follow BigFix on
Twitter @BigFix, or stay in touch on the BigFix Facebook page,
http://tinyurl.com/mvn9nu.
© 2010 BigFix, Inc. All rights reserved. All company and product names
mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.
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Contact:
Christina Armstrong
Connecting Point Communications for BigFix, Inc.
+1-650-867-4899
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