Long-time security expert, Pat Botz, recently joined Fortra. Botz goes way back in the computer industry. He wrote the Basic compiler and CAD tools for Control Data supercomputers and then lead the development of CAD tools for its AIX workstation line three decades ago. He eventually became a lead security architect for the IBM i platform, and left Big Blue a number of years ago to start his own security firm, Botz & Associates. Dan sat down to have a chat with Chris Heim, chief executive officer of Fortra, and John Vanderwall, vice president and business unit manager for security services at the company, as well as Botz, who now has a senior security services consultant position at the company.

Acquisition helps organizations better manage capacity and performance of their IT environments

Policy Minder has been expanded to empower security monitoring for data stored on Amazon S3, giving IT professionals peace of mind any misconfigurations or oversights will be detected and rectified.

Today Fortra released Cloud Connectors allowing their GoAnywhere Secure File Transfer solution to integrate with popular third-party services like Salesforce, SharePoint, Box, and more.

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

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

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.