INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Bitdefender expands
further into data centre
and cloud security
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itdefender, a leading global cybersecurity technology company
protecting 500 million users worldwide, has appointed Michael
Gable as Vice President of its Data Center Group, a new
division focused solely on cloud and data centre security.
The move is part of Bitdefender’s wider strategy to leverage its unique
technologies to secure server and virtual desktop workloads running
on software-defined, hyper-converged and cloud infrastructure. This
heightened focus on the data centre security market will drive explosive
growth in a segment with tremendous potential.
Michael Gable is a security industry veteran, with more than 20
years’ experience in sales leadership, strategic alliances, professional
services and sales engineering. In this new role, he will focus on
helping enterprises solve cloud-workload security challenges,
developing strategic alliances with key ecosystem partners and
growing Bitdefender’s channel network in the data centre segment.
“Bitdefender’s solutions leverage virtualisation and cloud
infrastructure to provide security which was not possible in the legacy
data centre world,” said Gable. “These security solutions are highly
effective against today’s most sophisticated attacks and they’re
invisible to the attackers.
They are built from the ground-up for the modern data centre and
cloud infrastructure, delivering award-winning next-generation security,
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plus a host of unique benefits that let enterprises extract maximum
value from their data centre-transformation initiatives. I look forward
to helping organisations solve their data centre security challenges.”
“We are delighted to welcome Mike as a key member of our global
enterprise team,” said Bogdan Irina, Chief Operating Officer,
Bitdefender. “He will play a key role in expanding our efforts in the
data centre and cloud space, bringing more than two decades of
technology and cybersecurity sales leadership experience.”
Bitdefender’s award-winning data centre and cloud security
solutions, GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE)
and Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection (HVI), help organisations
reduce the attack surface and prevent, detect, investigate and
respond to advanced threats, known and unknown.
Certified as Nutanix, Citrix and VMware-Ready, GravityZone SVE
is a cloud-workload security platform that delivers layered next-
generation defences, while maximising the efficiency of security
operations, promoting infrastructure utilisation and optimising
end-user experience.
Named by industry analysis firm IDC as ‘a qualitative improvement
in the security of virtual environments’, Bitdefender HVI uniquely
protects data centre infrastructure against advanced persistent
threats through live memory introspection at the hypervisor level. n
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