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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