FOSTER CITY, Calif. - July 21, 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 its support for the beta
release version of the Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server
2005 and its advanced federation tools supporting new scenarios for
IM beyond the corporate LAN. Support includes company-to-company
and company-to-public IM. Within these enterprise deployments,
FaceTime's solutions enable IT administrators to contain existing
public IM usage to ensure standardized use of Live Communications
Server 2005. Additionally, FaceTime provides market-leading
solutions that complement and extend the feature set available in
Live Communications Server 2005 with enhanced management
functionality, which includes anti-virus, anti-spam, message
archival, and advanced content filtering capabilities. "At IDC we
see strong demand for Live Communications Server 2005," said Robert
Mahowald, Research Manager, Collaborative Computing at IDC.
"Further adoption of IM in the enterprise only increases the
requirement to have a rich set of advanced security, policy and
compliance management capabilities such as those offered by
FaceTime." "By eliminating the proliferation of multiple client
software versions on the desktop, IT administrators have the
opportunity to reduce security risks and lower the total cost of
ownership without limiting end user connectivity options," said
Jonathan Christensen, FaceTime's CTO and vice president of
products. "As the only provider of enterprise-grade, perimeter and
LAN solutions for IM security and management, our
'defense-in-depth' solutions allow enterprises to benefit from
their investments by enforcing both IM user policy management and
application behavior management." FaceTime's solutions are designed
to complement and extend the Live Communications Server 2005
environment, utilizing Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server,
and Live Communications Server 2005. FaceTime's new federation and
migration solutions include:
- Discovery, enabling a company to identify and
discover IM, P2P and VoIP usage as a first step towards securing,
managing and controlling their appropriate usage.
- Migration and Enforcement Tools, enabling the
migration of ad hoc IM usage to the IT standard and supported IM
infrastructure, i.e. Live Communication Server 2005.
- Integrated Defense-in-Depth, assuring user
policy management and compliance are applied on an individual,
group and enterprise-wide basis with perimeter and LAN components.
FaceTime offers the industry's only integrated two-tier
solution.
- Block Unauthorized IM and P2P Usage,
controlling the increased "surface area" for security attacks and
enforcing real-time communication security policies.
- Enable IM Standardization, assuring that all
IM usage is through the LCS 2005 Access Proxy over the networks
that a corporation chooses to standardize on.
- Corporate, HR and Regulatory Compliance
Requirements, meeting compliance requirements through a rich set of
content filtering, auditing, review and workflow capabilities for
regulated and non-regulated industries.
- Anti-Virus Scanning, enabling companies to
scan files transferred over IM for malware and exploits.
- Patent Pending, Anti-SPIM, enabling companies
to block IM-based spam or "SPIM," through a challenge-response
mechanism.
- Archival and Storage, expanding companies'
ability to capture, audit and then archive all instant messages
either standalone within FaceTime's solutions or exported to the
leading e-mail archival and storage systems.
FaceTime's solutions are available today and will support the
Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 at launch.
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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