Kaspersky Lab joins the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance to Promote Advanced Anti-Malware Technologies for Multi-Core Processors

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that it has become a member of the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance, a premier industry organization founded to drive best-in-class innovations on multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development.

Supported by a broad base of world-class hardware and software providers, the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance serves as the foundation upon which original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can more effectively and more efficiently develop high-performance networking equipment using industry-leading multi-core processors.

“We are truly honored to become a member of the Multi-Core Alliance and are looking forward to taking advantage of the opportunities it brings,” said Peter Merkulov, Vice-President of the Technology Alliances Business Division for Kaspersky Lab. “The company’s products fully support the multi-threaded processing provided by all modern CPUs, and thus it’s only logical for us to join the Alliance to promote our state-of-the-art anti-malware technologies among the world leaders of the IT industry. NetLogic Microsystems has been our esteemed technology partner since 2007, and we are positive that this step will give a further boost to our cooperation with NetLogic Microsystems and other Alliance members.”

“We are delighted to welcome Kaspersky Lab into our Alliance”, said Behrooz Abdi, executive Vice-President and General Manager at NetLogic Microsystems, a founding member of the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance. “Given the complexity of the Internet today, computers, servers and networks are constantly facing security threats without a reliable anti-malware product, and it is encouraging to have the security expertise of Kaspersky Lab to protect the advanced multi-core systems from the legion of Web-borne threats.”

As a founding member of the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance, NetLogic Microsystems is opening up the programming model for its family of market-leading multi-core, multi-threaded processors to Alliance members to allow greater access and tighter coupling between networking software and the XLR®, XLS® and XLP™ multi-core processors. This enables significant improvements in the application development efficiency of software code and overall system performance. In addition, the open platform enables the development of new enhanced services and applications for next-generation Internet networks that are highly optimized for multi-core, multi-threaded processors.

For more information about the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance, please visit eNsembleAlliance.org

About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is the largest antivirus company in Europe. It delivers some of the world’s most immediate protection against IT security threats, including viruses, spyware, crimeware, hackers, phishing, and spam. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users.  Kaspersky Lab products provide superior detection rates and one of the industry’s fastest outbreak response times for home users, SMBs, large enterprises and the mobile computing environment. Kaspersky® technology is also used worldwide inside the products and services of the industry’s leading IT security solution providers. Learn more at www.kaspersky.com. For the latest on antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and other IT security issues and trends, visit www.securelist.com

About the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance
The eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance is an industry organization aimed at driving best-in-class innovations in multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development for next-generation enterprise, telecommunications and data center networks. Supported by a broad base of world-class hardware and software providers, the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance serves as the foundation upon which original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can more effectively and more efficiently develop high-performance networking equipment using industry-leading multi-core processors.