MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- KACE, the leading provider of systems management appliances, today announced a partnership with Lumension Security™, a global leader in security management solutions, to provide KACE customers enterprise-class patch management capabilities within its comprehensive, easy-to-use, and affordably priced appliances. By embedding Lumension’s award-winning PatchLink® assessment and remediation technology into the KBOX Systems Management Appliance, KACE can now offer its customers access to the industry’s leading patch management engine, as well as the world’s largest vulnerability metadata database.

In conjunction with this announcement, KACE announced the latest releases of its KBOX Systems Management and Systems Deployment Appliances [Editor’s note: please see “New KACE Appliances Deliver Enterprise-Class Systems Management Capabilities at a Mid-Market Price” press release at www.kace.com.]

“This partnership mutually benefits KACE and Lumension,” said Marty Kacin, KACE president, CTO, and co-founder. “Lumension further expands its market reach by extending the same powerful patch and remediation engine used in PatchLink Update™ to a more comprehensive systems management appliance within the KBOX. In addition, KACE dramatically enhances the KBOX’s patching capabilities through more robust, heterogeneous, and timely patch management support from the recognized industry leader in vulnerability assessment and remediation. For KBOX customers, this partnership makes the all-in-one leading systems management appliance even more dynamic when it comes to protecting their IT environment.”

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