Award celebrates Shavlik’s pioneering patch solution and its strength in helping to protect virtual environments
LONDON ― September 2, 2016― Shavlik, a global leader in IT management and innovative security systems, today announced that Shavlik Protect has won the Gold Award in the “Security” category of the “Best of VMworld 2016” awards. These awards honour the most innovative new products in the server virtualisation, end-user computing and cloud markets.
“With all of the flash and hype in today’s security landscape, many organisations overlook the importance of patch management, which eliminates vulnerabilities, as well as the countless threats that target each vulnerability,” said Chris Goettl, senior product manager at Shavlik. “At Shavlik, we pride ourselves on delivering patch management that is easy to install and use. We have made a significant investment in improving patch management for data centre and virtual environments; this award validates our strategy and efforts.”
Shavlik helps organisations patch everything from VMware hypervisors to Microsoft windows to the Mac OS, including the third-party applications running on each. Patching virtual environments is a great strength of Shavlik Protect, which includes capabilities such as:
Online and offline virtual machine patching Virtual machine template patching Snapshotting of critical assets for superior rollback VMware vCenter integration VMware ESXi Hypervisor patchingIn addition, Protect offers an agentless option that is particularly well-suited to the datacentre. This option allows organisations to assess and deploy patches, while minimising impact to server workloads. This option also ensures that new virtual systems are never missed.
The Best of VMworld awards were chosen by a panel of independent expert judges, composed of editors of TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com, who evaluated 145 nominated products on display at VMworld 2016. Each product was evaluated for innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use. The security category acknowledges solutions that follow security best practices and monitor and protect cloud workloads, hypervisors, guest operating systems and virtual networks.
To learn more about how Shavlik helps meet patching needs specific to virtual environments, visit http://blog.shavlik.com .
About Shavlik
Shavlik is a recognised leader in patch management, and a pioneer in agentless patching technology, virtual machine (VM) patching and third-party application patching. Shavlik solutions include Shavlik Protect, Shavlik Patch for Microsoft System Center and Shavlik Empower. Shavlik’s combination of premise- and cloud-based solutions enables organisations of all sizes to begin improving organisational security in as little as 30 minutes. For in-depth Patch Tuesday analysis, see: http://www.shavlik.com/patch-tuesday www.shavlik.com
About SearchServerVirtualization.com SearchServerVirtualization.com is an enterprise virtualisation-focused website providing IT professionals and the community with the latest server virtualisation news, articles, tips, and expert advice. Other virtualisation information includes webcasts and industry white papers covering all areas of server virtualisation, such as virtualisation platforms, server hardware, managing virtual environments, virtualisation architecture and strategies, application issues, and more.
Its sister site, SearchVMware.com , is dedicated to helping IT organisations evaluate products, services and business strategies that can lead them to successful implementations of virtualisation technologies in VMware environments. And sister site SearchVirtualDesktop.com is the premier source for information on desktop virtualisation, application virtualisation, and virtual desktop infrastructure.
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