With a rash of recent security updates, patches, and critical hot fixes released by Microsoft over the past few months, the senior administrators at FastServers took a hard look at our patch management strategy for Windows 2000/2003 servers, along with other Microsoft enterprise-level applications. As productive as our maintenance periods had been in the past we knew that we were still lacking the automation of releasing these updates from Microsoft in a timely, effective manner to our customers to secure their dedicated hosting solutions.

FastServers is pleased to announce that we have partnered with St. Bernard Software to improve, secure our patch management solution going forward for our customers. St. Bernard’s UpdateExpert will be the flagship for all patch management for Windows 2000/2003 and all backend Microsoft applications beginning March 2006 for all of the FastServers datacenter environments. UE has received countless accolades and awards for its patch management solution that greatly speeds and simplifies the patching of systems no matter how small or large an enterprise operation can be. UE automates the time-consuming tasks involved in accurately scanning and patching operating systems and applications.

What does this mean for our customers? Overall this will mean a more trusted and effective way of securing your servers, ensuring updates are applied in a timely fashion, while being confident that the updates that are applied to your servers have been tested, verified and approved before installation- providing additional peace of mind in that the patches that are deployed will not hamper productivity or cause any conflicts with existing environments. This service is only available to DEFCON 1 through 3 customers; DEFCON 4 and 5 customers, please speak with your sales representative for special pricing to add FastServers UE service to your solution or upgrade to a new DEFCON support package to not only receive UE, but all the additional quality benefits of our DEFCON services.

What is UpdateExpert?

Simplified and Speedy Patch

Management for Windows Servers

UpdateExpert is critical for ensuring dedicated server protection against debilitating threats, costly data loss and legal liabilities associated with regulatory compliance. Most malware leverages known vulnerabilities that have simply been left un-patched. With several major software vulnerabilities discovered each week it is imperative to keep dedicated servers updated. Combine this with the increasing speed at which exploits follow vulnerability announcements and you have a crisis in the making. UpdateExpert simplifies and speeds the patching process across your network. The complex and time consuming tasks involved in accurately and reliably patching are automated so you can handle multiple patches across multiple distributed systems quickly and easily.