Today, Echoworx announced a reseller partnership with ISEC7.  Echoworx is a provider of credential management and managed encryption services for email and data protection.  ISEC7 is a systems integrator for mobile business solutions.  ISEC7 will add Echoworx's mobilEncrypt ENDPOINT to its mobile device management offerings.  The Echoworx platform will allow ISEC7 to provide mobile security with an easy application download that can work with multiple mobile operating systems.

With mobilEncrypt ENDPOINT, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry users can compose, send, download and receive secure, encrypted messages through their existing business email account. No additional components are required, since the application creates a native email experience. IT managers for their part can centrally manage the infrastructure "over-the-air" and assign user credentials, as well as revoke or suspend them if a device gets lost or stolen. The solution is backed by a comprehensive public key infrastructure (PKI) credential management platform and globally recognized Certificate Authority. An Android version is scheduled for release this fall.

         

More companies today are adopting Apple products as mission critical enterprise devices for mobile work.  Using an iPad for a presentation, a MacBook for editing work, or an iPhone to check company email, the greater use of Apple devices has created new security issues for CIO's needing to secure each unique device.  With an already tight budget, many CIO's are looking to the cloud to reduce costs and simplify their IT infrastructure.

CenterBeam, specializing in hosted IT services, just announced a new service addressing the security of enterprise Apple products.  CenterBeams's Hosted Endpoint Management and Security service provides anti-virus and anti-spyware security software, centrally managed to ensure all a customer's devices remain protected against evolving security threats. The solution also includes patch management, software distribution, automated hard drive defragmentation, configuration management, asset tracking and optional data protection and web filtering.

OnShift unveiled OnShift on the iPad. With busy schedules and hectic work environments, directors of nursing (DON), administrators, schedulers, and others in long-term care and senior living require access to staffing and scheduling information around the clock, from any device. With OnShift on the iPad, they save time and improve efficiencies with the ability to easily view, create, update and manage schedules from anywhere.

With the iPad in hand, schedulers can easily respond to last minute call-offs and staffing emergencies, with just a few taps. Using OnShift's intelligent communications platform, open shift messages are sent to qualified and available staff via text, email and automated phone call, with replacements typically secured in minutes.

eFax^®, a provider of cloud-based fax services since 1995 and a brand of j2 Global Communications, Inc.,has  announced the general availability of its new eFax app for the iPad. eFax users can download this new app today and use it for all their faxing and document management needs.

Similar to the eFax app for the iPhone, the iPad app can be used to create and send faxes even when there is no fax machine or PC in sight. Photos stored or taken with the iPad's camera can be sent as a fax directly from the iPad. Inbound faxes received can be viewed and forwarded via fax or email right from the app as well. A real estate agent, for example, can fax an offer via their iPad without driving back to the office or a patient can fax a prescription to their pharmacy as they are leaving the doctor's office.

Workday, Inc., the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources (HR), payroll, and financial management,  announces general availability of Workday for iPad. In addition, Workday reveals key enhancements to Workday for iPhone. Workday mobile solutions are available to users on the App Store^(SM) -- at no additional cost -- as part of customers' regular subscription fees.

While using Bime to analyze our own web traffic the other day, I thought about how prevalent mobile browsing has become over the past few years. With the rise of the smart phone and the mobile tablet PC I thought it would be interesting to perform a query about our mobile website traffic.

According to Business Insider, the iPad represents 2.1% of US web traffic, and 1% of global web traffic.  2.1% may not sound like much but it’s actually very impressive for a new category of device introduced little over a year ago.

 Now with all types of Software-as-a-Service alternatives in the market today, one tip that separates the winners from everyone else is the ability to create a product that is truly viral.  Granted several of these companies listed above offer consumer-oriented offerings, not traditional enterprise or corporate software there are examples like Yammer, were large organizations have very quickly adopted their products because the internal usage spreads like wildfire.  I profiled Yammer and they are definitely an organization that has built its sales and marketing model on being viral.

Here are some tips when thinking about incorporating viral adoption into your product and business strategy:

In searching for coverage from VMworld in San Jose, I came across this press release...

Wyse Unveils Expanded Strategy for Cloud Client Computing, Mobile Cloud Business Unit

Thin, Zero, and Cloud PC Client Offerings Combined with Integrated Management, Desktop Virtualization and Cloud Software Delivering the Most Complete and Secure Unified Communications Platform for True Cloud Computing

Mobile Cloud Business Unit to Focus on Management, Desktop Virtualization and Cloud Software on Next Generation Mobile Platforms

Rdio Enters U.S. Cloud Music Game, As Apple Re-Aims Lala at IPad, New Apple TV

written by:  Kit Eaton

Spotify has been in and out of the tech news for months, with many will-it, or won't-it stories about its upcoming U.S. launch. Now Rdio, a similar rival music streaming service, has grabbed the headlines by launching first. We've also been perusing what Apple will do with Lala, the cloud-based music service it purchased last year, and now it seems the team at Cupertino is going to surprise us by morphing it not into streaming music, but video sometime this year.

When somebody writes an iPad app which both syncs files with the cloud and lets you edit them, they’ll make a killing at the App Store. Until then, we have workarounds like this one from SugarSync.

SugarSync is an application for Windows, Mac, iPhone, BlackBerry and now the iPad. It works like many cloud-sync apps: You point it at, say, a folder on your computer and when any file is changed or added, it is automatically mirrored in the inter-ether. This means that you not only have an offsite backup but you can access and edit your documents wherever you may be.

What this iPad update adds is document sharing. Now, thanks to OS 3.2, you can tap a file and choose to open it with any compatible app on the iPad. Word docs can be sent off to Pages, for example, where you can edit them. This is a lot handier than Apple’s clunky solution which involves emailing things to yourself or dragging files into each app’s storage area in iTunes. With SugarSync, you always have any file to hand, and all in one place.

There is still a problem getting the files back out. To do so, you have to mail the resulting document back to your SugarSync account, which creates another copy. There is currently no way to just save the file. This is one of the worst parts of the iPad. In order to keep things “simple”, Apple requires that you create a brand new iteration of a document every time you need to use it elsewhere. There is no way to shift the same single document back and forth between machines.