SecureData, an ERP.com company and the exclusive sub-Saharan distributors of Trend Micro, a leading provider of enterprise antivirus software for the Internet age, today announced Trend Micro's alliance with Compaq Computer Corporation to provide value-added security services to Compaq Global Services' customers. Under the terms of the agreement, Compaq Global Services, a worldwide service organisation of 27,000 service professionals, can now globally resell and integrate Trend Micro's products and services.
The agreement will enable Compaq Global Services to sell, configure and deploy Trend Micro's award-winning antivirus and other content security products either in custom consulting engagements or in pre-defined service products. "We are very excited to integrate Trend Micro products into our management services suite," said Rose Ann Giordano, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Sales, Compaq Global Services. "In addition to being a leader in antivirus technology, Trend Micro offers centrally managed products for the desktop, server, messaging environment and gateway that fit perfectly into the integration and management products and services that we are rolling out on a global basis. At Compaq Global Services, we provide our customers with a single point of management and accountability. With Trend Micro in our portfolio, we will be able to offer our customers an enhanced antivirus solution to ensure the security of their e-commerce infrastructure."
"The Compaq Global Services agreement is a natural extension of our relationship with Compaq," said Allan Thompson, Senior Vice President of Global Alliances for Trend Micro. "Our ActiveAnswers and Exchange Hosting Services partnerships have already proved extremely successful. We complement each other with the scalability, availability, and the high level of service provided by our solutions. Customers can only benefit from the technology and expertise that both Trend Micro and Compaq provide."
Whether in security or business consultation or in large-scale infrastructure deployments, the customer will benefit by getting one of the leading antivirus and content security products seamlessly integrated by Compaq, a leader in e-business computing. This alliance reinforces Trend Micro's position as the industry's leading provider of enterprise server-based Internet antivirus and content security products and services. Trend Micro will work with Compaq on a global basis as Compaq releases service products and conducts consulting engagements that involve Trend Micro software.
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Compaq Global Services
Compaq Global Services is a leading provider of information technology services worldwide and offers end-to-end life cycle services-from consulting to outsourcing-to help customers plan design, implement, manage and support their e-business computing environments. Security is an integral component of Compaq e-business solutions and e-infrastructure suite of products and services. Along with streamlining deployment and management, Compaq solutions are designed to enhance security for small, medium, and large-scale organizations that are transforming themselves to meet the demands of the Web-enabled economy. For more details on the current array of Compaq e-infrastructure offerings, please visit www.compaq.com/services/management/index.html.
SecureData
SecureDATA, an ERP.com company, is a Managed Security Service Provider. SecureDATA is the exclusive sub-Saharan Distributors of Trend Micro, providing enterprise-wide, centrally managed, server-based, virus protection, e-mail filtering and Internet filtering products and services.
Concern about Internet Safety has created a vigorous and growing market for content security products and services. Today, e-mail attachments account for over 50% of virus infections, and web-based malicious mobile code (vandals) is widely thought to be the predominant content threat of the near future.
SecureDATA, brings sub-Saharan Africa the tools that build anti-virus and content security protection into the Internet and Mail/Groupware infrastructure.