MobileIron Intros Release 2.0 for Smartphones

You might say it's a one-two-three punch coming from MobileIron today. The company introduced Release 2.0 of its Virtual Smartphone Platform, giving more control to IT departments and employees who want to make the most productive use of their smartphones.

There are three parts to the new release: MyPhone@Work, Event Center and the Enterprise App Store.
MyPhone@Work gives workers a searchable history of their communications, similar to how one might look up an old e-mail. The Event Center is a customizable event engine to track and respond to potential security, cost or quality problems. For example, it can reduce roaming costs by capturing international roaming use as it happens and let employees know when they need to get on the proper roaming plan.

The Enterprise App Store component allows IT to customize the store and publish approved internal and external apps, noting whether they are supported and/or reimbursed.

As MobileIron CEO Bob Tinker explains it, smartphones are proliferating in the enterprise, a situation driven by employees, many of whom want to bring in their own devices. IT has less control than desired but still gets stuck with the accountability.

Under a model of what he calls "cooperative mobility," the management of smartphones gets shared more fairly between employees and their corporate IT departments. In the end, users want to do the right thing; the key is driving behavior. "It really is about self-governance with IT guidance," he says. 

"The same things people expect on their desktop ... a lot of that activity is moving to mobile," he says. At the same time, it's important to balance the information that IT needs with the privacy of the end user.

Release 2.0 will be available across all the operating systems that MobileIron supports, including BlackBerry, Windows, iPhones, Nokia Symbian and Palm webOS, with Android support coming next year. MobileIron adds platforms based on what its enterprise customers are asking for, Tinker says.

One of MobileIron's customers is Netgear, a global networking products company where mobility plays an important role in running the business. Generally, MobileIron's enterprise customers have more than 1,000 users.

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Cloud Distribution sign strategic agreement with NetPilot Internet Security

Newbury, Berkshire, Dec 10th 2009 - Cloud Distribution & NetPilot Internet Security today announced their intent to attack the Cloud channel with NetPilot's new range of UTM appliances

Cloud Distribution intend to focus their efforts on introducing the NetPilot platform to ISP’s, VNO's, PTT's and MSP's with a view to providing virtualised and physical appliances for resale as a unique "UTM in the Cloud" proposition. "We see a natural evolution for SMB's to push everything they can up to the cloud rather than deploying physical boxes on premise." stated Scott Dobson, Managing Director at Cloud Distribution. "ISP's have been providing clean email services for years but the firewall, IDS/IPS, VPN etc. have all remained on their customers LAN where they are difficult to manage and sold as a capital investment. We see NetPilot's MSP proposition as a key differentiator in moving these elements upstream to the cloud for financial and ease of management reasons."

Jamie Pushman, Sales Manager at NetPilot Internet Security said " We are very excited to work with Cloud distribution to address the emerging opportunity for cloud based managed security solutions. From being one of the first UTM appliances in the world Netpilot will now be available as a cloud implementation managed service. We will also be shipping  a virtualised appliance for LAN deployment. This is a fantastic new opportunity for our reseller partners "

Nick Morse of NeoAccel, NetPilot's Enterprise VPN partner said " Our partnership with Netpilot Internet Security will deliver enterprise class end to end security to the UK SME market. The virtualised and physical implementations of Netpilot UTM incorporating Neoaccel 3rd generation VPN technology provide the SME with a choice of traditional appliance, virtualised and cloud based solutions"
 

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VMware CTO Confirms Expand Networks Support for VMview 4.0

Scott Davis, chief technology officer, Desktop Business Unit, VMware, explains, “Expand’s multi-facetted technology helps enable all remote desktop protocols to be delivered over the WAN in a VMware View™ environment, improving communication efficiency, quality of service and security for customers with virtual desktop WAN deployments. Expand provides unique technology – such as its ability to work with the UDP transport protocol to support PCoIP with secure tunneling – that helps customers protect their virtualization investments while facilitating growth and longevity of their virtual desktop deployments.” The benefits that  Expand’s solution brings to VMware View include support for:

Teradici PCoIP

•  Securely enable transport of PCoIP within standard or advanced tunneling options (Advanced Encryption Standard (AES256), Firewall Transparency and Router Transparency Modes) eliminating the potential need to reconfigure firewalls
•  Apply QoS to control PCoIP traffic flow and assure end-user experience
Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) & SUN Ray Appliance Link Protocol (ALP)
•  Compression and byte-level caching techniques enable up to 10 x more users on the network and eliminate the need for bandwidth upgrades.
•  Layer 7 Quality of Service (QoS) enforcement for RDP/ALP, and within RDP, provides monitoring and control at the channel layer to help ensure VMware View desktops run unimpeded over the WAN.
•  TCP acceleration mitigates latency and delivers a quality & guaranteed desktop experience for the remote user.

VMware ThinApp™

•   Prioritize VMware ThinApp traffic over the WAN using QoS techniques
Multimedia Redirect
•  Multimedia traffic that is redirected can be compressed, accelerated and prioritized with QoS
•  Ensure that video or voice traffic gains the priority and bandwidth it requires over the WAN

USB Redirect  

•  Accelerate, compress and control redirected USB-connected device traffic with QoS


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MobileIron voted Best in Show

MobileIron won Best in Show at Under the Radar today!  Here's a link to the presentation we gave:  http://www.undertheradarblog.com/  I am really proud of the hard work the team has done to get us here.
It was an honor to be invited to Under the Radar.  There were some awesome mobile startups there and I learned a lot from watching what others were doing.

I thought these guys http://www.m-via.com/ were solving a fascinating challenge of money transfer from US to developing countries over the phone.  And these guys http://hopephones.org/ were collecting old phones and using them to provide better medical care in developing countries - that's impact.

Plus I met Greg Grunberg, who plays the mind-reading cop on Heroes and is both a really nice guy and a mobile entrepreneur (http://getyowza.com/).  A cool day.

Expand Networks Cited as a Leader by Independent Research Firm in Latest WAN Optimization Market Report

Roseland, NJ. – 10^th Nov 2009 – Expand Networks www.expand.com, a leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced that leading independent research firm, Forrester Research Inc., has cited Expand as a ‘Leader’ in its latest research report ‘The Forrester Wave™: WAN Optimization, Q4 2009’.  The report, authored by Chris Silva, was published on 10^th November 2009 and rates vendors based on current product offering, strategy and market presence.

Expand Networks was positioned amongst the highest scoring vendors across the three evaluation criteria to be named a ‘Leader’ in the overall result. Expand Networks earned the highest scores for management and usability, as well as architecture. With a total configuration time of 66 seconds, Expand tied with another leading vendor for appliance deployment time.

According to the report, ‘Expand offers excellent support for virtualized environments and nontraditional deployment scenarios such as those dependant on satellite-based WAN links. The vendor has pursued multiple device provider partnerships in the satellite space. Expand has excellent optimization architecture – offering multiple levels of transparency with or without tunneling, including all IP Layer 3  solutions and Layer 4 capabilities – storage architecture, client integration, and deployment architecture, earning it a top spot in current architecture offerings.”

Adam Davison, VP Corporate Sales & Marketing at Expand Networks, comments, “We are delighted to be recognized as a leader by Forrester. Our product portfolio, technology direction and business strategy is in tune with market needs as organizations look toward next generation WAN Optimization technologies, such as Expand’s, as a key enabler to many of today’s high profile IT initiatives including IT consolidation, centralization and virtualization . Our focus on enabling branch offices and remote workforces to take advantage of these initiatives demands a solution that is feature rich yet easy to deploy, manage and use.”  

The report is available at: http://www.expand.com/forrester2009

MobileIron Shows ROI for Enterprise Mobile

After 18 months in development, MobileIron's virtual smartphone platform is ready for the spotlight. It's one of the few startups that focuses solely on mobile technology for the enterprise, and with almost $9 million in venture funding, it is a serious play at giving IT a better handle on smartphones.


MobileIron is not an app development shop or something specific to single devices. It's a cross-platform tool for companies to get hard data on the use of smartphones by employees, creating a pipeline between enterprise IT behind the firewall and employees out on the job. By providing real insight into how mobile plays a part in business, MobileIron could transform how the enterprise views mobile.

How It Works

MobileIron has been in beta for more than a year, but today is their public launch. To date they've secured nearly $9 million in funding from the likes of Sequoia Capital, Northwest Venture Partners, Storm Ventures and Big Basin Partners. Basically, it creates a bi-directional link between employee smartphones (most of which are owned by employees themselves) and enterprise activity behind the firewall.
 
A small piece of software runs in the background of a mobile device, logging information on enterprise-related activity, all of which gets sent back to the Virtual Smartphone Platform at MobileIron. Privacy policies set exactly what is sent back to the platform and how. MobileIron then relays the information to an appliance behind the firewall, presenting IT with a window onto how smartphones are being used.

In addition to control over how enterprise applications are used on smartphones, MobileIron gives companies the opportunity to make smarter decisions about spending on smartphones. Real-time usage information such as dropped calls and roaming charges can help IT make qualitative decisions on choosing carriers.

What It Could Achieve

Research has made clear that businesses are spending too much on mobile and getting back far too little data on how best to use smartphones to meet their business needs.

Simply put, MobileIron is one of a new class of startups seeking to provide the enterprise with the data they need to make smarter decisions and have better control over mobile devices used for business.

Original Article -  http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/08/mobileiron-shows-roi-for-enter.php

NeoAccel unveils 3G SSL VPN-Plus on VMware

SSL VPN-Plus Gateway is 3rd Generation VPN able to replace IPSec and to supersede conventional SSL VPNs which suffer from the TCP-over-TCP meltdown and degraded client-server application performance. Potential VPN buyers can download and evaluate a fully functional version of SSL VPN-Plus from the company's website.

'VPN buyers can download virtual image of SSL VPN Plus. Network administrators can experience the user and management interfaces and actually observe how SSL VPN-Plus fits within their current network setup—all without the logistics of a hardware appliance. Most prospects are up and running within 15 minutes," said Michel Susai, Chairman & CEO of NeoAccel. "This unique distribution method allows more people to experience the 3rd Generation VPN with performance enhancing and patented ICAA technology." In addition, NeoAccel has seen a strong demand for VMware products from its worldwide systems integrators in Germany, Japan, and the US."

NeoAccel's comprehensive offering of SSL VPN-Plus under VMware consist of 3 separate options 1) SSL VPN-Plus & NAC-Plus running on an existing VMware Server platform 2) SSL VPN-Plus Evaluation Virtual Appliance for the VMware Player and 3) Globally Managed SSL VPN-Plus Farm for ASPs/MSPs/ISPs.

1) SSL VPN-Plus and NAC-Plus can now be purchased as virtual appliances and run on a VMware ESX Server. Network administrators get all the benefits of a virtualized infrastructure including on-demand replication, scalability, and backup of the VMware environment without the hassles of buying and maintaining hardware. SSL VPN-Plus™ on VMware is ideal for disaster recovery situations by being able to replicate one SSL VPN-Plus image to many and provide 100x the number of normal concurrent users on demand. In addition, virtualization ensures minimal downtime when making changes to your remote access infrastructure. Upgrade and test a second SSL VPN-Plus gateway in tandem, without disrupting your production gateway

2) SSL VPN-Plus Evaluation Virtual Appliance enables prospects to download and try an active version of SSL VPN-Plus using VMware player, effectively turning any laptop or extra lab computer into an SSL VPN-Plus™ Gateway, in under 15 minutes. After signing-up at neoaccel.com, and receiving email verification, users obtain an unrestricted 10 concurrent user license for 30-days. After a soft release, a month ago, NeoAccel has seen very strong interest including Fortune 500 companies.

3) For Managed or Internet Service providers( MPS & ISP) NeoAccel provides 10Gbps SSL VPN performance on the SGX-5200 appliance which enables service providers to take advantage of the VMware operating environment—provisioning, cloning, and managing

SSL VPN-Plus Gateways on the fly with a global manager. This enables MSP'/ISP'to offer their customers compartmentalized, secured access with flexibility & scalability. The SGX-5200 supports up to 128 individual virtual machines.

All versions of SSL VPN-Plus on VMware are fully functional SSL VPN-Plus gateways purposefully built as a zero administration IPsec replacement. Standard features include clientless & full access clients, End Point Security, GUI administration, Mobile VPN, Secure Desktop support and more. NeoAccel plans to expand its virtualization offering by making SSL VPN-Plus available for other virtualization architectures in the near future.

 

Original Article - http://www.ciol.com/Technology/Networking/News-Reports/NeoAccel-unveils-3G-SSL-VPN-Plus-on-VMware/27109115238/0/

Beyond Security Called In By Government To Defend Banking Systems

It sounds like a nightmare scenario, but yes, there is a war going on between China and the USA. Chinese military strategists understood that this would be an important aspect in the future of international warfare as long ago as 1996, and more recently Major General Wang Pufeng of the Chinese military said that it was their opinion that, "In the near future, information warfare will control the form and future of war."

China has a massive military force, but moving it overseas would be a logistical nightmare; so why bother when you can muster 300 million Internet users to attack the other country's vital technological system and stop them in their tracks?

The Chinese operation started with them trying to hack into the Pentagon's internal communications, but is now much more sophisticated. In moves which make the recent 'cyber wars' between Russia and Estonia, and Arab and Israel look puny, the Chinese have used 'botnets' to infest its other countries' computers with viruses - making them continuously re-send useless information to each other, and rapidly clogging the system and bringing it to a standstill.

These tactics aren't just used against the opposing military; Russian servers were used to attack Estonia's press websites, banking system and Internet service providers. There was a real possibility of the country grinding to a halt. Why bother about conventional warfare when you bring another nation to its knees electronically, without a shot being fired.

Aviram Jenik, the CEO of Beyond Security, was one of the experts in countering this sort of cyber warfare called in by the Estonian authorities to help fight off the assault. As Aviram says, 'It took us several days to get to the bottom of the problem, but the attack began to fade once we started to fight back. In the meantime it cost Estonia billions of euros.'

In recent days the British press has carried stories about the Chinese attacking the technological infrastructure of a total of 103 countries, with the USA being - unsurprisingly - its prime target. As Aviram says, this sort of warfare makes sense for an attacker - for several reasons: 'It's a form of 'clean warfare' which doesn't damage the essential infrastructure; it's very fast and easily reversed; it's very cheap, especially compared with conventional warfare; and, incredibly, it's deniable - the Chinese are blaming Tibetan activists abroad for the current attacks.

So what, if anything, can be done? 'Specialist companies such as Beyond Security can find and help eliminate the weak links that let attackers successfully compromise web sites and communications links', Aviram says, 'But democracies can't order organizations to comply, so there could always be a gap in the defenses, giving an unfriendly power a way in.

'There are measures which can be taken, but they are complex, and there is certainly no single solution; no 'silver bullet'.

'We have to think strategically. First, we have to be aware of the problem, and appreciate the damage which can be done. Second, we must be aware of the potential scope of these attacks; for example, there are dormant 'time bombs' which can be secreted in systems, and are then triggered by date or by event - and we would have no knowledge of them until it's too late.

'Third, we must have a CERT - a Computer Emergency Response Team - in place, as some countries have already. And last, we must be constantly testing our digital defenses. It can be done and it must be done. Countries unfriendly to our own are already attacking us, and to do nothing would be to court Armageddon.'

About Beyond Security
Beyond Security, a privately-held company, develops leading vulnerability assessment and self-management solutions that facilitate preemptive, real-time and continuous network, server, database and application security. The company was founded in 1999 by the founders of SecuriTeam portal (www.securiteam.com), a leading source for vulnerability alerts and solutions serving 1.5 million monthly page views to IT security professionals. Beyond Security's founders are great believers in automation, which is why the company sells tools instead of using them to provide services. Beyond Security's goal is to decrease the number of security holes in products to manageable levels and empower software vendors to release secure products. For more information, visit www.beyondsecurity.com.

Original Press Release - http://www.beyondsecurity.com/press/2009/press20090414.html

Voipex add Paul David as Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing

Voipex ltd the developers of the ViBE portfolio of solutions are pleased to welcome Paul david to the role of SVP Sales and Marketing.Paul's career, has had Telecoms and IP experience in 3 continents, and both big and small organisations. He has an outstanding record of sales and marketing achievements in international telecommunications, with extensive experience of IP/IT Services from mid 1990 onwards.

Paul started his career in the 1980s in Cable&Wireless headquarters where Paul successfully negotiated 12 overall pricing rate cases with overseas Governments, and later worked in Mercury when it was a start-up.

Paul then helped Hong Kong Telecom get ready for competition as General Manager for Corporate market .Paul was promoted to Vice President Internet and Intranet Solutions in a C&W/Schlumberger start-up.. Paul then joined COLT in August 2000 as Director Datacentre Solutions . Paul was then promoted to join COLTs Executive Management Team in July 2002 as Group Director, Products and Marketing and charged with getting a new product drive re-initiated.

Paul left COLT in 2006 to become Managing Director of Saiph Communications, a start up in VOIP services, and having successfully got the company started and growing, Paul moved to work on various VOIP assignments in the consulting sector before joining Voipex.

Jonathan Nelson CEO of Voipex said "Paul brings to our team a considerable experience at Tier 1 and Tier 2 Telco level which is fundamental to ensuring our unique proposition around ViBE is structured correctly for that audience"

Original Press Release - http://www.voip-x.co.uk/news/