BigFix Builds on European Success With Expansion into France

BIGFIX BUILDS ON EUROPEAN SUCCESS WITH EXPANSION INTO FRANCE

Security and systems management solutions provider sets sights on European expansion

7 OCTOBER 2009: BigFix, Inc., a leader in high-performance enterprise systems and security management solutions, announced today it is to expand its EMEA presence with the launch of French operations. The company, which currently has regional offices and development centres in the UK, Singapore, China, and India and is headquartered in Emeryville California, is to create a direct presence in France to continue the company’s focus on key markets across Europe.

As part of the strategic drive, BigFix has appointed Frederic Saulet as Sales Manager who will drive local initiatives in France, Saulet joins BigFix from Trend Micro where he was Strategic Sales Manager, previously EMEA Product Marketing Manager Team Leader. He also worked at Vigilante, a vulnerability assessment company where he looked after support. His main focus in the coming months will be to drive the company’s expansion across Europe by establishing BigFix’s direct presence and managing partner relationships in France.

Sean Hannan-Bobe, General Manager EMEA comments: “BigFix has achieved considerable success in the UK during the last two years, with a number of important multinational client wins. By building on this success and experience, we believe Europe offers BigFix a significant untapped opportunity to grow our client base and explore new partnerships. We are extremely pleased to welcome Frederic to BigFix and look forward to supporting his efforts in France.”

Companies around the world continue to look for increased visibility and control over their IT systems, while reducing budgets and demanding more from existing resources. In response to this changing business climate, BigFix has developed a range of services to help reduce energy bills, prevent internal data leaks and generally support the systems and IT administrators by giving them increased visibility of the network and centralised control functions.

BigFix has forged a number of strategic partnerships during 2009, with IBM ISS and Trend Micro, which not only demonstrates the strength of BigFix solutions, but has also enabled further company growth.

NOTES TO EDITORS                 

• BigFix announced the expansion to coincide with Les Assises de la Sécurité et des Systèmes d'Information, France, taking place on 7^th October 2009. BigFix will be present at the Trend Micro stand at the event