 "IBM Acquires BigFix To Advance Smarter Datacentres")
IBM has entered into an agreement to acquire BigFix, Inc. The move aims to accelerate IBM’s efforts to help organisations more intelligently secure the enterprise by managing and automating security and compliance updates on thousands of computers globally.
BigFix software has built-in intelligence that can identify which devices are not in compliance with corporate IT policies and recommend security fixes and timely software updates to 500,000 machines in a matter of minutes.
“BigFix automates some of the most time-intensive IT tasks across the most complex global networks, helping save organisations significant amounts of time, labor, and expense,” said Al Zollar, GM, IBM Tivoli Software. “BigFix’s real-time visibility and control for globally distributed computing devices will complement IBM’s existing smarter datacentre offerings and strengthen our ability to build security into the fabric of the enterprise.”
BigFix software provides a single IT management platform that gives organisations visibility, control and automation across their computing endpoints – laptops, desktops and servers – to manage critical applications for systems lifecycle, vulnerability assessment, energy-efficient computing, and configuration and security compliance.
“Organisations require tighter control of computing devices and the entire IT infrastructure including applications, storage, servers and networks,” said Dave Robbins, President, CEO and Chairman of the board. “BigFix is excited about becoming part of the IBM team to deliver greater visibility and control to the computing infrastructure, backed by world-class sales, services, support and alliances organisations.”
BigFix will be integrated into IBM Software Group. BigFix’s PC automation is an important addition to the IBM portfolio that controls the ever-expanding datacentre.