BigFix Enterprise Suite 6.0 Secures eWeek's ''Analyst's Choice Award''; Enterprise Newsweekly Recognizes BigFix for Its Strengths in Vulnerability, Patch and Lifecycle Management.EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- BigFix Enterprise Suite 6.0 has earned the prestigious honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. of "Analyst's Choice" in a review by eWeek. The comprehensive, independent review, titled "BigFix Evolves Patch Management The installation of patches from a software vendor onto an organization's computers. Patching thousands of PCs and servers is a major issue. A patch should be applied to test machines first before deployment, and the testing environments must represent all the users' PCs with their unique ," recognizes BigFix Enterprise Suite's strengths in asset lifecycle management, vulnerability remediation and patch management. eWeek reported its findings in its June 12, 2006 edition. The full review is available online at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1973555,00.asp. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. eWeek, "BigFix's BigFix Enterprise Suite seamlessly blends hardware and software asset inventory capabilities along with best-in-class patch management and fine vulnerability remediation. For successfully making this evolutionary leap, BES 6.0 earns our Analyst's Choice Award." BigFix was also commended for its enhanced software and security features, including incorporated anti-spyware features, enhanced baseline The horizontal line to which the bottoms of lowercase characters (without descenders) are aligned. See typeface. baseline - released version policies, and more sophisticated asset reporting applications. In addition to acknowledging BigFix for making its software easier to deploy, eWeek emphasized, "With all this functionality packed into a platform that requires only a single client agent on each managed machine, BES 6.0 -- which started shipping in April -- is much more an asset lifecycle management platform than a patching platform." "We developed BigFix Enterprise Suite 6.0 to allow companies to improve the effectiveness of their IT operations with solutions to easily track software and hardware assets, enable a more efficient workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. and integrate multiple security and configuration management capabilities through a single console," said Gregory Toto, vice president of product management at BigFix. "We are very excited to be honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. with eWeek's Analyst's Choice Award." About BigFix, Inc. Founded in 1997, BigFix is the category leader in security configuration management software, services, and solutions for real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. visibility and control of computers across the distributed enterprise. BigFix solutions are proven in production at more than 500 companies, government agencies and public sector institutions worldwide and currently manage over 5,000,000 desktop and mobile clients, workstations, and servers. The company has received numerous awards and industry recognitions, including the 2005 Codie Award for Best Security Product and the SC Magazine Product of the Year Award in 2004. For more information, visit www.bigfix.com. |
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