EMERYVILLE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/11/08 -- BigFix, Inc., a leader in real-time IT security and management solutions for the distributed enterprise, is now a General Member of The Green Grid. The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Participation in The Green Grid underscores BigFix's commitment to help its customers conserve energy and cut costs.

As a Member of The Green Grid, BigFix joins over 150 companies with a strong interest in sharing information about and promoting green technologies. BigFix has joined the consortium on the strength of its BigFix Power Management product, which integrates IT infrastructure-wide power conservation policy-setting and enforcement with security and system management functions. BigFix Power Management has enjoyed significant success with retail, education, healthcare and financial industry customers, both opening doors to new accounts and as an add-on to existing BigFix information security and system management solutions.

"Information Technology has become the biggest prosperity creation engine the world has ever seen," said Dave Robbins, President and CEO of BigFix. "The mission for our industry going forward is to deploy technologies that make economic progress sustainable given the Earth's finite resources. We have joined The Green Grid because we are convinced the organization provides a forum for pooling strengths and knowledge that can make the vision of environmentally sustainable economic growth a reality."

The Green Grid's scope includes collaboration with other industry organizations and government organizations worldwide to ensure that the consortium's mission is aligned with both developers and users of data center and business computing ecosystems technologies. For more information about The Green Grid, please visit www.thegreengrid.org.

For more information about BigFix and the BigFix Power Management solution, please visit http://www.bigfix.com/products/policymodules/powermanagement.php.

About BigFix

Founded in 1997, BigFix®, Inc. offers the only converged IT security and operations platform that enables real-time visibility and control of globally distributed desktop, mobile and server computers. BigFix enables large-scale enterprises to continuously enforce IT security, IT policy compliance, and systems management on all computers, anytime, anywhere. Designed for highly distributed and complex IT infrastructures, BigFix delivers real-time endpoint visibility and control through its single-agent, multi-function, on-demand architecture. Its award-winning technology is proven in production at more than 600 companies, government agencies, and public sector institutions worldwide, and currently manages over 7,000,000 desktop and mobile clients, workstations, and servers. More information can be found at www.bigfix.com.

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