WWT and Tanium Establish a Powerful Strategic Partnership
Alliance extends ability to deliver integrated solutions that mitigate risk, enhance threat intelligence and optimize security incident response
ST. LOUIS – October 27, 2016 – World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading technology integrator, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Tanium, the company that has redefined systems security and management.
"Forging a strategic alliance with Tanium extends our ability to deliver truly innovative, integrated solutions to help our customers strengthen their security posture and successfully navigate today's threat landscape, with unprecedented speed and agility," said WWT's chief executive officer and co-founder Jim Kavanaugh.
WWT has already successfully collaborated with Tanium to help business enterprises and federal agencies across the globe mitigate risk, enhance threat intelligence, optimize security incident response, and manage endpoints at incredible scale.
The companies teamed up earlier this year to deliver a revolutionary endpoint platform for the U.S. Department of Defense. Together, Tanium and WWT ensure fast, zero-touch migrations to Microsoft Windows 10 with CPMigrator®, a proven solution that combines Tanium's industry-leading remediation and asset discovery tools with WWT's advanced automation and migration capabilities. WWT also features an array of Tanium solutions in its Advanced Technology Center (ATC) and has demonstrated expertise integrating Tanium technology with complementary solutions from market-leading vendors, including Splunk to help enterprises and agencies analyze, protect and adapt to external and internal security threats.
"Our customers often ask us which partners we trust to deliver high quality, honest, and valuable solutions with our technology. WWT has proven time and time again that they can provide major value to our Tanium customers and technology partners, and we're proud to work closely with them to get ground breaking security and operational capability in the hands of the companies that need it," said Orion Hindawi, cofounder and CEO, Tanium.
The partnership will be strengthened and supported by WWT's ATC, Integration Centers, technical engineering expertise and sophisticated supply chain management infrastructure.
About World Wide Technology
World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a leading technology integrator with more than $7 billion in annual revenue that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions to large public and private organizations. Through its culture of innovation, WWT inspires, builds and delivers business results, from idea to outcome. Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders including Boeing (NYSE: BA); Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO); EMC (NYSE: EMC); AT&T Inc., (NYSE: ATT); VMware; NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the U.S. Air Force. WWT employs more than 3,000 people and operates over 2 million square feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space in more than 20 facilities throughout the world.
About Tanium
Tanium gives the world's largest enterprises and government organizations the unique power to secure, control and manage millions of endpoints across the enterprise within seconds. Serving as the "central nervous system" for enterprises, Tanium empowers security and IT operations teams to ask questions about the state of every endpoint across the enterprise in plain English, retrieve data on their current and historical state and execute change as necessary, all within seconds. With the unprecedented speed, scale and simplicity of Tanium, organizations now have complete and accurate information on the state of endpoints at all times to more effectively protect against modern day threats and realize new levels of cost efficiency in IT operations. Visit us at www.tanium.com or follow us on Twitter at @Tanium and Medium at medium.com/Tanium.
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