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.

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.

AudioBox.fm, the cloud-based music service that lets users upload their music collection and access it anywhere, has added the iPhone/iPod touch to its list of supported devices through a native application.

Previously, iPhone users could only access AudioBox via Mobile Safari, a bit of a kludge since the QuickTime Player plugin effectively takes over the phone’s browser. There’s also existing support for Android, a nifty HTML5-based browser version and a Windows desktop app, with the Italy-based company touting itself as an open platform to store a user’s media library in the cloud, giving them “access to uploaded media from anywhere through the highest number of devices possible.”

Of course, with Apple’s expected launch of its own cloud-based music offering based on the company’s purchase of Lala, AudioBox is just as well to emphasize ‘open’ and multi-platform support. On that note, I’m told that the company wasn’t even entirely sure if its iPhone app would be approved by Apple for sale in the iTunes App Store to the extent that it delayed developing advanced features such as ‘offline’ playlists in case it turned out to be a waste of time.

As it stands, the iPhone app supports streaming of a user’s music library over WiFi and 3G, multitasking/background support thanks to iOS 4, and unlike AudioBox’s Android app, playback can start and resume from any point in a track.

“It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one, but now you guys are busting down doors in Palo Alto while Commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes.”

It’s official: Jon Stewart has weighed in on the lost iPhone prototype investigation.

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.