Coverity Signs Varian as 200th Customer
Leading medical equipment provider joins new customers Lucent and Rockwell Collins in deploying Coverity's source code analysis solution to improve software quality and security
SAN FRANCISCO and Embedded World in Nuernberg, Germany, February 13, 2007 –
Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution, today announced that the company has signed Varian Medical Systems iLab GmbH, of Baden, Switzerland, as their 200th customer. Varian, a global leader in medical systems with more than $1.6 billion in annual revenue, will be deploying Coverity's flagship source code analysis solution, Coverity Prevent, to manage and improve the quality of software developed internally.
"We chose Coverity based on a number of important factors," said Christof Frey, a team leader at Varian's imaging labs. "We found no other static analysis tool on the market that could improve our software development process as effectively as Coverity Prevent. We were especially impressed by Prevent's ability to detect concurrency errors in our robust real-time multitasking environment. In addition, Coverity has an excellent support structure to assist with the deployment of Coverity Prevent."
"The signing of Varian as our 200th customer highlights a period of impressive global growth for us in Asia, Europe, and the US," said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity. "The increasing complexity of software and the rising cost of software quality and security defects drove demand that doubled our customer base in the last 18 months."
Coverity saw strong growth in the government, digital media, and security markets, solidifying their market leadership in these segments. In addition to Varian, other industry leaders to recently license Coverity's technology include Siemens, Reuters, and Rockwell Collins.
Other Coverity accomplishments in the second half of 2006 include:
- A partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) Center for research on improving computer security. TRUST Center membership is comprised of leading academic and industry organizations, including Carnegie Mellon University, Cisco, Cornell University, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Stanford University, and lead institution UC Berkeley.
- The launch of the Coverity University Outreach Program to better educate the next generation of software engineers. Under the program, Coverity helps students learn best practices for writing code with the help of source code analysis. Initial participants include Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Purdue University and Stanford University.
- The launch of the Coverity Certified program, a new standard for software quality and security. In order to become Coverity Certified™, a product’s source code and development process must undergo a comprehensive analysis conducted by Coverity specialists.
About Coverity
Coverity (www.coverity.com),
maker of the most advanced source code analysis solution, is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity's groundbreaking technology removes the barriers to writing and delivering complex software by automatically finding critical software defects and security vulnerabilities as the software is written. More than 100 leading companies choose Coverity because it scales to tens of millions of lines of code, has the lowest false positive rate and provides 100 percent path coverage. Companies like Juniper Networks, Symantec/VERITAS, McAfee, Synopsys, NASA, Palm and Wind River work with Coverity's tools to eliminate security and quality defects from their mission-critical code and make their products Coverity Clean.
Coverity is a registered trademark, and Coverity Extend and Coverity Prevent are trademarks of Coverity, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.
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