Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 39 | Page 8

NEWS
Tenable and HCL BigFix sign strategic partnership

Tenable Inc , a cyber exposure company , has announced a strategic partnership with HCL BigFix , an endpoint management platform , to bring riskbased insights to the vulnerability remediation lifecycle – from assessment and prioritisation to remediation .

The partnership launches with a new integration between Tenable . sc , for vulnerability management on-premises and HCL BigFix ’ s Insights for Vulnerability Remediation application , to swiftly identify and correlate vulnerabilities , prioritise them based on risk and act quickly to reduce remediation times .
“ Many organisations try to tackle the vulnerability overload problem without the proper insight or workflows needed to ensure the most business-critical issues are addressed first . This leaves dangerous flaws unpatched for far too long ,” said Ray
Komar , Vice President , Technical Alliances , Tenable . “ Our strategic partnership with HCL BigFix is tackling this problem at its core by bringing our best-inclass solutions together to streamline vulnerability response workflows with risk-based insights .”
“ Enterprise customers often struggle with the sheer volume of reported vulnerabilities coupled with ineffective , manual prioritisation schemes and limited resources . This results in lengthy time-to-remediation , errors and big windows of risk ,” said Kristin Hazlewood , Vice President and General Manager , HCL BigFix . “ Our strategic partnership with Tenable is dramatically reducing remediation times . This is a giant step forward for organisations who need to secure their most business-critical assets .”
Ray Komar , Vice President , Technical Alliances , Tenable
Ingram Micro accelerates data centre strategy with Veeam and Zadara Cloud Services

Demonstrating its strength in data centre and integrated solutions , Ingram Micro Inc , has said it is first to market with all-inone compute- and storage- As-a-Service solution sets from Veeam and Zadara .

At the heart of the new alliance is Ingram Micro ’ s state-of-the-art Integration Centre .
Established in 2018 , the Integration Centre builds technology from the ground up to spec or specialisation – offering channel partners everything from system design to compatibility and regulatory engineering . Both Veeam and Zadara are leveraging the qualified engineering skill and solutions expertise found within Ingram Micro ’ s Integration Centre to extend their reach into the channel and deliver a better and differentiated partner experience .
“ In today ’ s ‘ do business from anywhere ’ environment , corporations want and need secure and scalable storage and compute solutions that can be consumed as a service and managed remotely with ease and greater efficiency ,” said Ryan Grant , Executive Director , Integrated Solutions , Ingram Micro . “ By bringing Veeam backup and Zadara Cloud Services to market together , we are shortening the sales and deployment cycles for our channel partners .”
Dangvy Keller , Vice President , Distribution Sales , Americas , Veeam , said : “ Ingram Micro has served as a preferred distributor for Veeam since 2009 and continues to add more value to the mix for our mutual channel partners through its Integration Centre .”
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