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IBM on Thursday agreed to acquire BigFix. The acquisition sets the stage for products that help Big Blue’s customers keep desktop computers more secure and compliant via automation and management tools. Financial details were not disclosed.
As IBM sees it, enterprises are challenged with making sure thousands of computers are available, secure and configured according to policies and requirements. The cost is rising to accomplish this task as security threats become greater. And companies can’t afford to risk a breach.
BigFix software works to identify which devices are not in compliance with corporate IT policies and recommends security fixes and software updates to as many as 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 organizations significant amounts of time, labor and expense,” said Al Zollar, general manager of IBM Tivoli software. “BigFix’s real-time visibility and control for globally distributed computing devices will complement IBM’s existing smarter data-center offerings and strengthen our ability to build security into the fabric of the enterprise.”
IBM’s Internal Deployment
BigFix brings IBM more than 700 customers in industries ranging from federal, retail, entertainment, health care, education and financial services. SunTrust Bank installed BigFix software on more than 50,000 PCs, servers and mobile computers to gain visibility into its IT infrastructure across nearly 1,800 branch banks. The software helped SunTrust reduce patch cycle times from three weeks to three days and achieve a 98.5 percent compliance rate.
In its conference call announcing the deal, Big Blue said it plans to deploy BigFix internally across its more than 500,000 endpoints. BigFix software can also serve as the foundation for a data-center management service that could be lucrative for IBM, according to Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
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