Johannesburg, 14 Aug 2013
Synapsys, the Pan-Africa distributor of Acronis data protection and mobility solutions, has announced the local availability of Acronis GroupLogic mobility software.
Designed to resolve secure mobile file management and enterprise file synchronisation and sharing (EFSS), mobilEcho and activEcho enable secure and managed productivity and collaboration for mobile employees.
According to Gartner's paper: "MarketScope for Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing", which was published earlier this year, organisations must deploy EFSS services to secure enterprise information assets. Failure to provide these capabilities will subject organisations to information leakage threats caused by users who move data through uncontrolled personal cloud services.
Monica Basso, Gartner Research vice-president, and Jeffrey Mann, Gartner Research vice-president, the co-authors of the report, said: "File synchronisation and sharing is a critical capability for mobile workforces whose organisations have ongoing mobility initiatives with media tablets and BYOD programmes. We expect IT organisations will face increasing demand for these capabilities, with deeper focus on security and compliance by regulated or security-conscious enterprises."
Without a mobile file management and EFSS strategy in place, employees can share corporate documents with third parties, or store documents on home PCs and other personal devices, completely out of an IT organisation's control. With this in mind, IT organisations are looking for mobile file management and EFSS capabilities that enhance mobile workers' productivity and collaboration to limit security risks.
Peter French, Technical Director at Synapsys, observes: "Companies are being increasingly challenged by the management of their data outside the boundaries of the corporate infrastructure. With more and more people using tablets and smartphones in the enterprise, there is a rapid rise in un-secure file and data sharing practices, leaving many enterprises exposed. It's a security nightmare for many organisations."
With so much confidential corporate content regularly leaving companies' secure networks, IT directors must be able to offer secure file access and file sharing among multiple devices while maintaining administrative control to enable a productive workforce. The two new solutions from Acronis are designed to address new demands for data availability, accessibility and protection against the rise in enterprise mobility, the volume and velocity of content creation, user driven collaboration tools and rising storage costs.
mobilEcho is a secure enterprise mobile file management solution for mobile workers. It enables enterprise IT departments to provide secure and managed corporate file access for enterprise tablet users, based on existing security and access control policies.
activEcho is a secure enterprise file sharing and syncing solution. It provides an alternative to consumer file sharing services by giving enterprise IT control over internal and external file sharing.
French concluded: "Security, compliance and management are top priorities for IT organisations in mobile file management and EFSS, as well as in mobile device management (MDM). Organisations planning BYOD initiatives should include mobile file management and file synchronisation and sharing requirements in conjunction with MDM. Last year, Acronis acquired GroupLogic, so that they could help organisations of all sizes get to grips with enterprise mobility and secure collaboration while keeping corporate content and systems available and accessible at all times. These product launches mark the first step towards this vision, and they're now available to South African customers through qualified Acronis Mobility resellers."
Synapsys Systems
Authorised Acronis distributor for South Africa and Africa
Telephone 0861-472-580
www.synapsys.co.za
E-mail: acronis@synapsys.co.za
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