HGGC becomes leading investor in Fortra to support strong global growth across cybersecurity, automation, and business intelligence solutions

HelpSystems has become one the largest independent software vendors in the IBM i marketplace, with tools spanning operations, security, backup, high availability, forms management, and capacity planning. A company representative recent sat down with IT Jungle at the recent COMMON PowerUp conference to talk about what’s new. HelpSystems didn’t have a single major product launch at the COMMON...

Fortra announced a new product offering—Vityl Capacity Management. This release includes a capacity planning component that makes it easy for anyone to be a capacity planner and right-size their infrastructure.

Acquisition enables organizations to protect information stored on Linux and Unix servers with identity and access management software

Linoma Software, a Fortra company, today announced the release of version 5.5 of its GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) solution, which allows organizations to deploy MFT agents across the enterprise to automate, secure and audit all of their file transfers from a single, centralized location.

TeamQuest provides industry-leading IT capacity planning and performance management software

Fortra and Tango/04 combine to help organizations in Europe and Latin America with systems management, monitoring, and security solutions.

Linoma provides managed file transfer and encryption solutions for meeting compliance requirements.

Despite all the IBM i security vendors that Fortra has bought over the years--and there have been at least five of them--the company has lacked one key security capability valued by enterprises: encryption.

Eden Prairie, MN, January 10, 2013 – HelpSystems, LLC, a world leader in systems management, security, and business intelligence software, announced it has completed the acquisition of Dartware, LLC, a network management software company. The acquisition, which completed in December, represents the growing company’s third acquisition in 2012 and ninth overall. Based in New Hampshire, Dartware is...

With this acquisition, Fortra offers one of the industry's most comprehensive IT and business process automation portfolios with virtual and cloud-based technology, as well as a broad set of application integrations.

H.I.G. Capital, LLC ("H.I.G."), a leading global private equity investment firm with $19 billion under management, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fortra, LLC (“HelpSystems”, or the “Company”). The completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory and anti-trust approval.

Penetration testing helps businesses uncover security vulnerabilities and meet the new PCI DSS requirements.