Attunity and OPSWAT Partner to Accelerate and Secure B2B
Information Availability
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts and
SAN FRANCISCO, November 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU), a leading provider of information
availability software solutions, and OPSWAT Inc., a leader in
multi-engine malware scanning solutions, announced today a
partnership to combine the award-winning Attunity Managed File
Transfer (MFT) solution with OPSWAT's Metascan file scanning
technology. The collaboration is designed to facilitate the
availability of a fully-managed solution that automates, secures
and accelerates the delivery of files across partner portals,
business applications, business users and cloud ecosystems.
Providing automated inspection policy enforcement, the combined
Attunity and OPSWAT platform will enable organizations operating in
highly-regulated industries to invoke virus and malware scanning as
part of an end-to-end file transfer process. Customers in the
Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy and Utilities industries, in
which multi-tier, highly-secure networking infrastructures are
commonplace, can greatly benefit from the solution's accelerated,
turnkey capabilities.
"Through our partnership with Attunity, we are able to deliver a
joint solution that effectively empowers customers to incorporate
multiple-engine malware scanning into their file transfer workflow
quickly and easily," said Jeff
Garon, Director of Sales and Product Marketing at
OPSWAT. "Using anywhere from 4 to more than 20 different
antivirus engines to scan files, Metascan increases detection rates
for all types of malware without the hassle of licensing, modifying
and maintaining multiple engines. Before transferring files with
Attunity MFT, customers can quickly and thoroughly check for the
presence of threats by scanning with Metascan."
"Attunity's strategic collaboration with OPSWAT will provide our
customers with the ability to implement a robust, turnkey solution
while delivering information quickly and securely to businesses,"
said Garrick Herrmann, Vice
President of Sales at Attunity. "Attunity MFT is unique in that
it provides a high fidelity means to seamlessly move files from
external networks and internal environments, while providing an
extensive portfolio of policy-based inspection, scanning and
routing capabilities. Its high efficiency in managing and
automating various inspection policies combined with OPSWAT's
security capabilities make this new offering a true stand out in
the industry."
About OPSWAT, Inc.
Founded in 2002, OPSWAT is a leading provider of software
management and security technologies. With both software
manageability and multi-scanning products, OPSWAT offers simplified
and comprehensive SDKs that reduce time and costs for your
engineering and testing teams. OPSWAT delivers: OESIS Framework, an
open development framework that enables software engineers to
develop products that manage thousands of third-party software
applications; Multiple antivirus engine scanning products including
Metascan (try the demo at http://www.metascan-online.com); Secure
Virtual Desktop, a sandboxing solution for secure and private web
browsing; AppRemover, a free utility that enables the complete
uninstallation of security applications; and GEARS, a
white-labeled, cloud-based solution for monitoring and managing
computers, servers, and switches.
About Attunity
Attunity is a leading provider of information availability
software solutions that enable access, sharing and distribution of
data, including Big Data, across heterogeneous enterprise
platforms, organizations, and the cloud. Our software solutions
include data replication, change data capture (CDC), data
connectivity, enterprise file replication (EFR) and
managed-file-transfer (MFT). Using Attunity's software solutions,
our customers enjoy significant business benefits by enabling
real-time access and availability of data and files where and when
needed, across the maze of heterogeneous systems making up today's
IT environment.
Attunity has supplied innovative software solutions to its
enterprise-class customers for nearly 20 years and has successful
deployments at thousands of organizations worldwide. Attunity
provides software directly and indirectly through a number of
partners such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and HP. Headquartered in
Boston, Attunity serves its
customers via offices in North
America, Europe, and
Asia Pacific and through a network
of local partners. For more information, visit
http://www.attunity.com or our In Tune blog and join our community
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subject to various risks and uncertainties and actual results could
differ materially from Attunity's current expectations.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences
include, but are not limited to: risks and uncertainties relating
to the acquisition of RepliWeb, including costs and difficulties
related to integration of acquired businesses, the combined
companies' financial results and performance, and ability to repay
debt and timing thereof; our liquidity challenges and the need to
raise additional capital in the future; market acceptance of the
Attunity Replicate and the development of a market for such
product; timely availability and customer acceptance of Attunity's
new and existing products; any unforeseen developmental or
technological difficulties with regard to Attunity's products;
changes in the competitive landscape, including new competitors or
the impact of competitive pricing and products; a shift in demand
for products such as Attunity's products; unknown factors affecting
third parties with which Attunity has formed business alliances;
the impact on revenues of economic and political uncertainties and
weaknesses in various regions of the world, including the
commencement or escalation of hostilities or acts of terrorism; and
other factors and risks on which Attunity may have little or no
control. This list is intended to identify only certain of the
principal factors that could cause actual results to differ.
For a more detailed description of the risks and uncertainties
affecting Attunity, reference is made to Attunity's latest Annual
Report on Form 20-F/A, which is on file with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) and the other risk factors discussed from
time to time by Attunity in reports filed or furnished to the SEC.
Except as otherwise required by law, Attunity undertakes no
obligation to publicly release any revisions to these
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the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events.
© Attunity 2012. All Rights Reserved. Attunity is a registered
trademark of Attunity Inc. All other product and company names
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Press contacts:
ATTUNITY:
Melissa Kolodziej, Director of
Marketing Communications, Attunity
melissa.kolodziej@attunity.com
Tel. +1-781-730-4073
OPSWAT:
Jeff Garon, Director of Sales and
Product Marketing, OPSWAT
jeff@opswat.com
Tel: +1-415-543-1534
SOURCE Attunity Ltd