On November 30, 2009, IBM announced it had acquired Guardium, a market leader in safeguarding databases and protecting critical enterprise information More Global 1000 organizations trust Guardium to secure their critical enterprise data than any other technology provider Our vision is to secure critical data across your entire database and application infrastructure-without impacting performance or disrupting your business processes or IT infrastructure Our solution also optimizes operational efficiency by automating and centralizing compliance controls across heterogeneous and distributed data center environments