FOSTER CITY, CALIF. - October 31, 2006 -
FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions for
securing and managing greynets such as instant messaging (IM),
peer-to-peer (P2P), VoIP, and web conferencing, today announced
IMAuditor-MT - part of a comprehensive IM security and compliance
solution for managed service providers (MSPs). IMA-MT enables
managed service providers to offer security, control, management,
compliance, and application integration for the safe and productive
use of IM and other real-time communications applications.
Greynet applications such as instant messaging are becoming
increasingly important real-time collaboration tools for businesses
of all sizes. According to Osterman Research, IM clients and
systems are used in more than 90 percent of North American
organizations.
In addition to the IMA-MT product, FaceTime's comprehensive MSP
solution consists of service offerings including network operations
(NOC) support, customized pricing, marketing programs and materials
and automated updates from FaceTime's greynet research database.
Using this solution MSPs can create a turnkey offering that enables
organizations to block in-bound malware and spyware threats,
prevent information leakage and maintain corporate and regulatory
compliance requirements while realizing the productivity and cost
saving benefits of real-time communications.
"Organizations that typically outsource their IT functions are
recognizing the importance of securing their networks to enable the
use of real-time communications applications," said Bob Hussey,
managing director of Sector Inc., a leading provider of
connectivity solutions, managed services and market data content
for the financial services industry. "For these businesses, the
ability to rely on technology from a leader such as FaceTime
provides the peace of mind they need to enable their workers to use
these tools safely and productively."
"Controlling and managing the use of IM and other real-time
communications applications is an increasing concern, presenting a
strong incremental service offering for managed service providers,"
said Erica Ziemer, vice president of business development for
FaceTime Communications. "Business customers of managed service
providers now can take advantage of FaceTime's enterprise-class
solution in a cost-effective managed security environment which
reduces their onsite cost to implement."
IMA-MT is a purpose-built IM security, control, management,
compliance, and application integration solution specifically
designed for the rigorous requirements of service providers,
including high performance, linear scalability, carrier-grade
availability, data center-class manageability, and the low cost of
adding diverse customer companies. This solution includes all the
robust features of IMAuditor, which is the most widely deployed IM
management solution in large enterprise networks. IMAuditor is a
full-featured IM proxy that secures and manages all public and
Enterprise IM use in an organization by archiving and recording
instant messaging, protecting against outside threats such as
spyware, viruses and worms, and guarding against information
leakage from within the company.
Key features and capabilities for service provider offerings
include:
- Role based administration - Provides both customer and service
provider with configuration and reporting privileges to effectively
manage hosted implementation.
- Directory Synchronization - Ability to synchronize the
directory server (on or off premises) of customer companies in the
hosted environment with their corporate directory server.
- Mutual privacy - Single IMA installation infrastructure can
service multiple customers, while guaranteeing mutual privacy.
- Local Routing - IM conversations among users of the same
customer company will be confined to the customer's LAN, the
network connection between the customer and the MSP's NOC (possibly
a VPN connection), and the IMA cluster in the MSP's NOC network
itself.
- Data Center Monitoring - Service provider administrator has the
ability to see the number of messages per company per network,
total messages, and top IM-message-traffic customers.
- Buddy Name Management - Allows standardized naming convention
and allows Employee IDs to be effectively mapped to buddy names in
the hosted environment.
These specific, multi-tenancy capabilities help MSPs to provide
best-of-breed IM and greynet security while reducing the cost for
their customers. MSPs can now architect and install, manage and
provision IMAuditor security solutions meeting carrier class
requirements including performance, scalability and manageability.
In addition, IMA-MT's flexible administration options allow service
providers to offer tiered service levels to their customers who
want to manage portions of their IM policies and security
settings.
IMA-MT is available from FaceTime and its authorized
distributors and partners worldwide. For more information visit
www.facetime.com
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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