FOSTER CITY, Calif. - July 13, 2004 - FaceTime
Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure,
manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and other forms of
real-time communications, today announced RTShield™, an integrated
solution that bundles FaceTime's market-leading IM management
security and policy enforcement capabilities onto a single, easily
deployable and cost-effective solution for the small and medium
enterprise market. RTShield will be available in two license
configurations: 1) less than 50-employee organization and 2) 50 to
1000-employee organization. The explosion of IM in the enterprise,
coupled with the high cost of IM management solutions, has put
small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a disadvantage. These
businesses typically opt for one of three approaches: 1) prohibit
IM without a blocking solution, 2) prohibit IM while trying to
actively block usage with complex firewall filters and other
stop-gap measures, 3) continue using IM without an IM management
solution in place. As a result, most businesses are either
preventing their workers from participating in what has become a
preferred method of communication among partners and customers, or
they are compromising the security of their networks and corporate
data in addition to regulatory compliance. RTShield allows smaller
businesses to leverage the same universal reach, productivity and
cost savings benefits of multi-network IM as large enterprises
without compromising their information and network security or
regulatory compliance. RTShield and AIM Identity
Services
RTShield comes bundled with ten free seats from America Online's
AIM Identity Services for a period of one year. AIM Identity
Services allows companies to match AIM screen names with corporate
e-mail addresses for greater professionalism and preservation of
corporate identity. Customers can then easily expand their AIM
Identity Services to include:
- Provisioning of all or selected AIM users with digital
certificates to enable encrypted communications with other
security-enabled AIM users.
- Hosted edition, which allows companies to quickly activate
domain screen name services without requiring special software
installations on company premises.
- On-premise edition, which allows companies to control AIM
authentication from the corporate user store.
"We support FaceTime in this innovative packaging to help
simplify the managed use of AIM in small and medium enterprises,"
said Ed Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Desktop
Messaging, America Online, Inc. "FaceTime has been a trusted
partner for the past four years, and we look forward to working
with them as a Certified AIM Partner going forward."
RTShield - Integrated Solution for Small and Medium
Businesses
With RTShield, smaller businesses with few available IT resources
can safely embrace multi-network IM through the layered approach
required for proper management and security of all IM and P2P
communications. FaceTime's industry-unique "defense-in-depth"
approach employs both user policy management and application
behavior management that distinguishes between authorized and
unauthorized use. Together, these capabilities form a complete,
integrated solution that aligns all IM and P2P communications with
an organization's business objectives, corporate policies and
government regulations. Channel Friendly
RTShield follows the tremendous worldwide success of FaceTime's
first appliance for large enterprise, the RTG500, as driven by its
global network of resellers. "We are very excited to take this
latest FaceTime product to market to meet the growing demand we see
in small and medium enterprises to manage and control IM and P2P,"
said Rob Wolfe, President and CEO of AvcomEast. "The appliance and
its ease of use form factor is particularly helpful for us in those
highly regulated industries that need a solution today but find the
setup, configuration and maintenance of other products too
complicated." "Securing, managing and extending IM and P2P in the
small and medium enterprise has to date been prohibitively
expensive and complicated," said Kailash Ambwani, FaceTime
president and CEO. "With the introduction of RTShield, small
businesses can now safely embrace IM and other forms of legitimate
real-time communications, while blocking P2P and meeting all
corporate and regulatory compliance guidelines." RTShield will be
available for distribution in September, 2004. Pricing has not yet
been released.
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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