FOSTER CITY, Calif., August 31, 2004 - FaceTime
Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure,
manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P)
applications, today announced the majority of AOL Instant Messenger
Enterprise Gateway (AIM-EG) customers have chosen FaceTime
IMAuditor for secure and regulatory compliant IM. FaceTime, which
developed the technology that powers AIM-EG, found customers eager
to retain the code base shared by IMAuditor and AIM-EG. "The
upgrade from AIM-EG 2.0 to FaceTime IMAuditor 5.0 was simple and
flawless," said Chris Christian, senior network engineer, Ziegler
Companies. "I was able to do a complete upgrade in less than two
hours, and the changeover was invisible to the users." He went on
to say, "The documentation is well-written, easy to understand and
details the steps required both in preparation and deployment. I
found the entire process much more efficient and reliable than
IMLogic's product." Due to overwhelming response, FaceTime has
reiterated its free upgrade offer to all remaining AIM-EG customers
as well as to customers of other certified AOL partners, including
Akonix and IMLogic. FaceTime will continue to support AIM-EG
customers until they are ready to migrate to an alternate solution.
"The shift in the enterprise strategies of several IM networks has
left many corporate IM customers wondering where to turn," said
Matt Cain, senior vice president at META Group, a leading provider
of IT research, advisory services and strategic consulting. "When
selecting a provider of secure enterprise IM, it is important to
carefully evaluate the vendor's history in enterprise IM, its
technological strength, and position in the marketplace."
FaceTime's offer to upgrade AIM-EG and other customers of
AOL-certified vendors includes:
- Free upgrade to IMAuditor 5.0, the market-leading IM security,
compliance and management solution;
- Free technical support for ease of transition;
- Free license to FaceTime's upcoming RTMatrix™ with embedded
APIs and SDKs to extend multi-network IM and presence
capabilities;
- Preferred pricing on RTG500™, FaceTime's unique perimeter
security appliance for blocking unauthorized use of IM and
P2P;
- Free migration services to IMAuditor.
By deploying IMAuditor, users of AIM-EG and other AOL-certified
IM management solutions gain support of all the major networks with
the added assurance of working with the same IM security and
compliance leader they trust and have always relied on. FaceTime is
the only IM vendor to offer:
- Guaranteed compliance - due to the two-tier 'Defense-in-Depth'
architecture, which provides both i) enablement: IM user policy
management and ii) blocking: network security against rogue IM and
P2P usage;
- Guaranteed P2P blocking - due to the deep packet inspection and
protocol analysis architecture of RTG500;
- OS independence and multi-platform support;
- Native EIM protocol support in full proxy mode;
- The highest EIM scalability in the industry as determined by
independent testing and certification center, KeyLabs;
- Support for enterprise-class infrastructure such as Oracle and
SQL databases, EMC, Legato and VERITAS storage solutions;
- Consistent real-time content filtering and blocking;
- Dynamic anti-spam filtering through a patent pending
challenge-response mechanism;
- Next-generation IM, P2P and VoIP blocking;
- Non-repudiation, anti-tamper archiving for "true"
compliance.
"FaceTime Communications has experienced tremendous momentum
from its initial offer," said Kailash Ambwani, president and CEO of
FaceTime Communications. "We aim to build on this success by
extending our offer to those customers left without a future
upgrade path due to the AIM-EG end-of-life as well as to customers
of other gateway solution providers that are unhappy with their
experiences thus far." FaceTime customers should contact their
sales representative to discuss the discounts that apply when
purchasing both IMAuditor and RTG500.
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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