Fortra published its seventh annual IBM i Marketplace Survey, exploring how organizations use the IBM i platform and the IT initiatives it supports.

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

The recently acquired Halcyon Software solutions reduce the complexity and cost of monitoring, automating, and reporting on core applications and processes on IBM i, AIX, Linux, and Windows servers.

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

The RJS suite of products helps companies go paperless and efficiently manage the lifecycle of documents and data across multiple platforms, on-premise or in the cloud.

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.