Trend Micro's Deep Security 8.0 Achieves Oracle Solaris Ready Status, Announces Support for Oracle Solaris 11

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle OpenWorld -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) today announced that the Trend Micro™ Deep Security 8.0 application has achieved Oracle Solaris Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), demonstrating that Trend Micro has fully tested and supports Deep Security 8.0 on Oracle Solaris 11.  Trend Micro also announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in OPN. By attaining Gold Level membership, Oracle has recognized Trend Micro for its commitment to establish Oracle related knowledge in delivering security management.

Oracle Solaris Ready is part of the Oracle Exastack Ready program which allows partners, such as Trend Micro, to be recognized by Oracle for developing, testing and tuning their applications on the latest component products of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud or Oracle SPARC SuperCluster engineered systems. Oracle Solaris 11, the first cloud OS, brings the reliability, security and scalability of the #1 enterprise OS to the cloud, allowing customers to run their most demanding enterprise applications in private, hybrid, or public clouds.

Trend Micro Deep Security is an innovative agentless security platform that also delivers comprehensive, adaptive, highly efficient agent-based protection, including anti-malware, web reputation, intrusion prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring and log inspection that helps systems to become self-defending. Deep Security works with server and client-security architectures that must protect data centers undergoing changes such as virtualization and consolidation, new service-delivery models, and cloud computing using Oracle Solaris 11. Trend Micro Deep Security deployed on Oracle Solaris 11 provides comprehensive protection and protections provided by a single agent across multiple security modules can be centrally managed. With Oracle Solaris Ready status, Trend Micro will receive access to corresponding Oracle branding, logos and related benefits to effectively differentiate their offerings in the market.

"We kicked off our relationship with Oracle this year with a Gold Level membership in OPN, and are working to provide solutions and services in support of our mutual Oracle Solaris 11 Cloud OS customers," said Partha Panda, VP, Business Development & Global Alliances,Trend Micro. "Trend Micro is a market leader in cloud security and we are excited to work with Oracle in the pursuit of cloud OS leadership based on Oracle Solaris 11."

"The Oracle Exastack Ready program enables partners to deploy their applications with a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure that will help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and functionality, and deliver faster, more reliable solutions," said Kevin O'Brien, senior director, ISV and SaaS Strategy, Oracle. "By achieving Oracle Solaris Ready status, Trend Micro has established a foundation for their application to efficiently run on and leverage the latest features in Oracle Solaris 11 to deliver superior value to customers."

For more information about the benefits of becoming an OPN Gold level partner, please visit: http://www.oracle.com/us/partnerships/index.htm

About the Oracle Exastack Program

The Oracle Exastack program helps enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications.
To find out more, visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions.
To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704;TSE: 4704), the global leader in cloud security, creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers.  A pioneer in server security with over 20 years' experience, we deliver top-ranked client, server and cloud-based security that fits our customers' and partners' needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ cloud computing security infrastructure, our products and services stop threats where they emerge – from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe. 

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