BigFix Competitive Upgrade Program Offers Enterprise IT Head Start in Doing More With Less in 2010

EMERYVILLE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 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.

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