Thursday, July 1, 2010

IBM to acquire BigFix

IBM announced Thursday that it plans to buy systems management software vendor BigFix. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter, were not provided.

BigFix's platform includes a range of modules for areas such as patch management, security configurations and power management.
The software's workload is distributed over all devices under management, and a special query language BigFix developed minimizes performance hits to the machines under management, according to its Web site.

IBM's move ups the competitive stakes between itself and the industry's other big players in data center automation: Hewlett-Packard, BMC and CA Technologies.

Privately held BigFix has roughly 200 employees and more than 700 customers. It will be rolled into IBM's Software Group.

-PC World

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