BigFix Named 2007 eWEEK Excellence Award Finalist.eWEEK Bestows Latest 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. on BigFix Platform and IT.Next Product Strategy EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- BigFix[R] Inc., the only 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. IT service delivery platform that automates and optimizes enterprise computer security and management, today announced that eWEEK, "the enterprise newsweekly news·week·ly n. pl. news·week·lies A weekly newsmagazine or newspaper that reports current events. " and technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure, has named BigFix a finalist in the 2007 eWEEK Excellence Awards program. The BigFix Platform was recognized from a field of more than 800 entries for product excellence and industry-leading innovation in the vulnerability assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site. and remediation category. "BigFix continues to win reviews, awards, and gain new customers because it consistently performs in today's highly-complex and highly-distributed web world," said Dave Robbins Rob·bins , Frederick Chapman 1916-2003. American microbiologist. He shared a 1954 Nobel Prize for work on the cultivation of the polio virus. , chief executive officer at BigFix. "Next-generation IT systems need a next-generation IT management and security platform. Legacy IT frameworks and point tools can't handle today's IT infrastructures because they were built to work in static, predictable, client-server networks. Only BigFix delivers a comprehensive real-time command and control platform that keeps dynamic, global enterprise IT infrastructures highly secure and operating at peak performance." "We were very impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: by the quality of the entries we received this year, as well as by the number of entries -- more than 800," said eWEEK Editorial Director Eric Lundquist. "It was a real challenge to choose the finalists because all of the entries reflect the tremendous effort the industry is making to respond to the increasing demands businesses are placing on technology." The BigFix Platform is a key component of IT.Next, BigFix's next-generation product strategy, which provides the framework for large-scale enterprises to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. and optimize optimize - optimisation computer security and management. IT.Next also enables IT departments to leverage existing investments in applications, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and point tools. The BigFix Platform provides real-time visibility and control of all computers -- desktops, laptops and servers -- across complex and highly-distributed networks. This visibility and control allows IT organizations to distribute and enforce IT policies on all network-based or on-the-go computers immediately and with fine-grained accuracy. As a result, IT organizations can focus scarce human and technology resources on more strategic business initiatives, rather than on routine IT management. In addition to being recognized as a finalist for the 2007 eWEEK Excellence Award in vulnerability assessment and remediation, BigFix has been named a finalist for the 2007 American Business Awards in unified security and systems management. BigFix also recently garnered two highly-coveted 2007 SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property Codie awards as best security solution and best distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. solution, and was 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. as Network World's 2007 "Best of the Tests" for remediation management. Additionally, BigFix received five stars and a "recommended" rating in SC Magazine's 2007 policy management review. The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. The winners of the eWEEK Excellence Awards will be announced June 11, at www.eWEEK.com and will be featured in a comprehensive special report that will appear later in the month. About BigFix Founded in 1997, BigFix[R] Inc. offers the only real-time IT service delivery platform that automates and optimizes enterprise computer security and management. BigFix enables large-scale enterprises to continuously enforce IT security, IT policy compliance, and systems management on all computers, anytime, anywhere. Designed for highly distributed and complex IT infrastructures, BigFix delivers real-time endpoint visibility and control through its single-agent, multi-function, on-demand architecture. Its award-winning technology is proven in production at more than 600 companies, government agencies, and public sector institutions worldwide, and currently manages over 7,000,000 desktop and mobile clients, workstations, and servers. More information can be found at www.bigfix.com. About eWEEK eWEEK, "the enterprise newsweekly," is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK enables readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers to its readers news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing computing - computer . eWEEK reaches 400,100 enterprise technology buyers who are evaluating and purchasing technology solutions for their company. eWEEK delivers news, analysis and technology reviews in print and on a daily basis on the Web. (c) 2007 BigFix, Inc. All rights reserved. All company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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