SignaCert® Inc., the leading provider of independent IT controls solutions, today announced it has joined the Opsware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. Through the partnership, SignaCert and Opsware will provide access to a broad range of Data Center Automation capabilities, enabling enterprise IT departments to more rapidly achieve operational efficiencies and reduce labor costs across their IT infrastructures.
“SignaCert’s independent IT controls technologies are an excellent complement to Opsware’s industry leading products,” said Wyatt Starnes, Chairman and CEO, “Together we will deliver significant and immediate value to customers by enabling advanced asset discovery and verification capabilities throughout the data center production cycle -- from deployment and after.”
“Opsware is delighted to welcome companies of the caliber of SignaCert to our Technology Alliance Partner program,” said John O’Farrell, executive vice president of business development at Opsware Inc. “By combining Opsware’s IT Automation software with SignaCert Enterprise Trust Services, customers will benefit from a broader spectrum of critical IT Automation capabilities.”
With the cost and complexity of today’s IT infrastructure spiraling out of control, enterprises are turning to IT automation to increase productivity, ensure policy compliance, remediate security threats, and reduce labor expenses. The Opsware TAP program supports the increasing demand for automation technology by providing an effective means of addressing customer needs for server, network and applications.
As the fastest growing data center automation vendor, Opsware will provide SignaCert the opportunity to integrate with its award-winning IT Automation software and leverage its global sales and marketing activities to generate customer leads and drive revenue.
SignaCert Enterprise Trust Server captures, organizes, and compares the reality of what's running on customer IT systems against a proven trusted reference. This independent IT control measures, proves and verifies that enterprise IT systems are deployed as intended. SignaCert technologies complement Opsware products by enabling enhanced discovery and verification capabilities for swifter identification and reporting of deployed or unauthorized software, and more granular system scanning. Customers adopting these capabilities will benefit from increased systems availability, manageability, compliance, and security.
About the Opsware Technology Alliance Partner Program
The Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ:OPSW) Technology Alliance Partner program provides customers with the most extensive and comprehensive data center management solution available today. Opsware Technology Partners are comprised of best of breed, market-leading software and platform vendors who offer technology that complements a single Opsware product or the entire Opsware solution suite.
About SignaCert
Founded by industry veteran Wyatt Starnes in 2004, SignaCert delivers independent IT controls that provide a deeper understanding to enterprise systems and prove applications are deployed as intended, providing greater control, security, availability, and compliance. The company’s Enterprise Trust Server product enables business and government to measure, validate, and maintain the state of their technology infrastructure using a device-independent proactive approach that checks the operating system, applications, platforms and other software against a known trusted reference. SignaCert’s products are available directly from the company. For more information, visit www.signacert.com.
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Contacts:
Marta George, 503-227-2207, x705
mgeorge@signacert.com