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In early 2009, Shavlik formed an OEM partnership with VMware to build a cloud-based application designed to help IT administrators in smaller businesses deploy a virtual environment. VMware Go (vGo) was intended to be an "onramp to virtualization," serving smaller customers until they were ready to
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VMware and
Shavlik invested heavily in vGo, and the product was expanded to include asset inventory, patch scanning, and an IT advisor recommendation engine. Later in attempts to monetize vGo's services, a paid version called VMware Go Pro introduced patch deployment. This led to the migration of
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Shavlik's HFNetChk was the first product in the market that could scan for and deploy missing patches on
Windows machines. In the aftermath of the SQL Slammer worm and after a series of other highly publicized exploits hit in 2003/2004, Shavlik made the decision to move away from consulting and to
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In the early 2000s the failure to keep software up-to-date by applying patches was a common flag on audits. One of the central challenges in addressing the problem was that companies did not have an easy way to determine which machines were out of date and they did not have a methodology to deploy
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January 2013, VMware announced its intent to "sharpen its focus" on the software-defined data center and hybrid cloud services. As part of this realignment, VMware sought to sell off products that weren't contributing to its core business such as its SlideRocket presentation software and other
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In April 2010, Shavlik released SCUPdates – a catalog of patch content that automated the process of building third-party patches and delivering them to
Windows clients via an integration with Microsoft System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP) and SCCM. In tandem with the initial SCUPdates release,
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that allowed a denial of service and slowed traffic on many internet hosts to a crawl. The worm went viral affecting 75,000 systems in the first ten minutes. Microsoft had made a patch available six months prior indicating that a failure to patch led to the widespread, security breach, not the
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and VM templates. This project was the first in a series of partnerships
Shavlik entered into with VMware, and the capability meant that Protect could agentlessly patch machines in both physical and virtual environments. With Version 7 and its various point releases, a new user interface was
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operating system. Shavlik's roots were in providing consulting services to help organizations make the leap to
Microsoft OS's and contributed to them delivering products on NT. Shavlik later extended its services business into software security consulting, primarily with businesses in highly
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In an effort to address the "hot fix"issue, Shavlik built the first agentless patch scanner for
Windows NT. The product was named HFNetChk (the acronym designating HotFix Network Check). The HFNetChk release was followed by another partnership wherein Shavlik helped build the
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introduced as well as physical and virtual asset inventory. Agent support was integrated into
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VMware's interest in VMware Go as well as the virtual infrastructure patching capabilities within
Protect led to its acquisition of Shavlik Technologies in May 2011. The terms of the acquisition were not publicly disclosed.
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updates. During this era, Microsoft wrestled with addressing this issue internally. They wanted a tool to detect which NT servers in a large NT server environment were missing patches so "hot fixes" (see
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in May 2011, then held the position of Vice President and General Manager at VMware until March 2013. Today Mark Shavlik is the CEO of security automation product creator Senserva.
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Shavlik added standalone and integrated anti-virus capabilities to version 5 of HFNetChk and changed the product name to HFNetChk Protect, eventually dropping HFNetChk.
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Version 8 of Protect fixed many stability issues. Due to a number of customer complaints, Shavlik focused on making the product more stable. Version 9 introduced
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partners to provide patch management capabilities to a variety of IT management solutions with a combined install base of millions of users across the globe.
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acquired LANDesk and Shavlik, along with Heat Software, Appsense and Wavelink; the combined company uses a new corporate name and product brand, Ivanti.
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