VMware Carbon Black Recognized as a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Detection and Response Solutions (EDR)

Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice distinction is based on feedback and ratings from end-user professionals

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that VMware Carbon Black has been named a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions.

In December 2019, VMware Carbon Black was recognized as a 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP).

“EDR and EPP are critical for success in the modern attack landscape,” said Patrick Morley, general manager for VMware Carbon Black, the company’s security division. “We believe being named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in both categories is excellent validation that our solutions and vision continue to deliver results.”

Gartner Peer Insights is a free peer-review and ratings platform designed for enterprise software and service decision-makers. To be named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice, a vendor must have a minimum of 50 published reviews with an average overall rating equal or higher than the mean rating for that market. VMware Carbon Black’s EDR solution received a rating of 4.5 overall with more than half of respondents giving it five stars as of April 23, 2020. You can find additional examples of VMware Carbon Black customer feedback here.

The VMware Carbon Black Cloud is a cloud-native solution that provides security and IT professionals with everything needed to better secure their endpoints, using a single, lightweight agent and an easy-to-use console. The VMware Carbon Black Cloud focuses on understanding attackers’ behavior patterns to detect and stop never-seen-before attacks in real time.

About Peer Insights:

Peer Insights is an online platform of ratings and reviews of IT software and services that are written and read by IT professionals and technology decision-makers. The goal is to help IT leaders make more insightful purchase decisions and help technology providers improve their products by receiving objective, unbiased feedback from their customers. Gartner Peer Insights includes more than 215,000 verified reviews in more than 340 markets. For more information, please visit www.gartner.com/reviews/home.

Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-user reviews, ratings, and data applied against a documented methodology; they neither represent the views of, nor constitute an endorsement by, Gartner or its affiliates.

About VMware

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