LAS VEGAS -- Application Security, Inc. (www.appsecinc.com), the global leader in comprehensive database security solutions, today announced it has joined Opsware’s Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. Through the partnership, Application Security, Inc. and Opsware will enable customers to more rapidly achieve operational efficiencies and reduce labor costs across their IT infrastructure.

To combat crippling IT infrastructure cost and complexity, enterprises are turning to IT Automation to increase productivity, ensure policy compliance, tighten security, and reduce labor expense. Through the integration of Opsware’s award-winning IT Automation software and Application Security, Inc.’s industry-leading database security suite, the two companies will partner to effectively mitigate risk and increase operational efficiency in complex enterprise environments.

“Application Security, Inc. has always innovated through product development as well as new and exciting partnerships with other leading providers,” said Ted Julian, vice president of Strategy for Application Security, Inc. “This new partnership with Opsware’s industry-leading platform assists our enterprise customers with the automation of the database patch-management process and increases the efficiencies with which they secure their systems from attack.”

“Opsware is delighted to welcome companies of the caliber of Application Security, Inc. 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 Application Security, Inc.’s DbProtect, customers will benefit from a broad spectrum of critical IT Automation capabilities.”

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