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SHAVLIK RELEASES INDUSTRY FIRST IN SECURITY FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES

Shavlik Technologies, the market leader in delivering solutions that rapidly accelerate and continuously improve security and compliance readiness, has announced the availability of Shavlik NetChk Protect 6.5. Shavlik NetChk Protect 6.5 is the industry’s first virtual machine management solution that provides continuous patch assessment and remediation of your complete virtual world, including Offline Virtual Images.

 Adoption of virtualization technology is driven by improved use of physical servers; “green IT” via reduced power consumption and reduced rack space; lower maintenance costs; simplified system backup; improving system availability and disaster recovery; and centralized software management. But the cost savings from a virtualization strategy quickly disappear if manual processes are utilized to maintain required configuration and patch levels of virtual systems.

“Simplification and automation of security and compliance management in virtualized environments is essential to address the growth of virtual machines. According to Gartner, by 2010, unmanaged VMs will be as significant an issue to enterprise as unmanaged devices were in 2007,” said Mark Shavlik, CEO, Shavlik Technologies.  “Shavlik’s market leading agentless technology makes it uniquely capable of reaching and securing offline virtual images, thereby allowing customers to simplify the entire security management process. This technology edge is why VMware selected Shavlik to license and integrate into its own solutions offering. Now we are bringing our full solution into our main product line, a key to the continued simplification of complex network security solutions we provide to our customers.”

NetChk Protect 6.5 extends Shavlik’s Any Patch/Any Where assessment technology to offline virtual images and fully automates continuous patch assessment and deployment which cuts costs and eases time constraints on overburdened IT staff.  NetChk Protect 6.5 provides more powerful security through continuous identification and remediation of security gaps and redundant overlaps. 

Additional information can be found at http://www.shavlik.com/netchk-protect.aspx.

About Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik Technologies, LLC delivers enterprise IT organizations robust software solutions that rapidly accelerate and continuously improve security and compliance readiness by simplifying IT operations, and identifying and reliably closing system security gaps. Shavlik’s solutions provide Rapid Readiness so IT organizations realize continuous security and compliance readiness in a fraction of the time, cost and IT resources required by alternative approaches.

With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, Shavlik enables enterprises to simplify complex IT security and compliance management, providing trustworthy solutions that free up critical IT resources to focus on innovations that drive business growth while lowering costs.  Shavlik also licenses its technology to more than 20 leading security and technology companies such as BMC, Juniper, Sophos, Symantec and VMware. For more information, visit Shavlik Technologies at www.shavlik.com.

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