i-mate Eases Corporate IT Fears

Written by Adam Gosling

Friday, 02 June 2006

Designed to ease the corporate security and management concerns of corporate IT departments, i-mate has launched a suite a device and data management tools for its Windows Mobile-based devices. “We will be offering the same service on a hosted model to SME and individual professionals,” says Jim Morrison, Chief Executive Officer of i-mate. The service, which is priced at US$9.99 per month was develop in-house by i-mate to ease the pain of mobile device management. It includes three modules: i-mate Control, i-mate 1-View and i-mate Backup. i-mate Control allows enterprises to safeguard sensitive data, remotely configure or troubleshoot devices, automatically update all devices in the field wirelessly and remotely customise devices. It also features remote erase to issue that final self destruct command if the device is hopelessly lost or stolen. i-mate 1-View allows users to access field stored on a secure server while they are out and about, removing the need to synchronise their devices. There are collaborative tools that assist with file sharing i-mate Backup provides remote wireless data backup and restore including the ability to do incremental backups or to trigger a backup automatically when certain conditions are met, such as when high speed networking is possible.. THe ocmany is offering a 30 day free trial from its www.imatesuite.com website. Newer news items Laptop Battery Drama Lives On - In Mid-Air -13/07/2006 VeriSign To Secure WiMAX Networks -12/07/2006 Fortinet Offers Mobile Operators Security Solution -10/07/2006 PC Failures Down As Dell Laptop Blows Up -29/06/2006 Dell Laptop Explodes: Amazing Photos -21/06/2006 Older news items ACMA Launches SPAM Toolbar -29/05/2006 Microsoft Beefs Up Remote Access Credentials -18/05/2006 World First Mobile Chat Guidelines To Protect Children -10/05/2006 Backup Your Laptop Anywhere -02/04/2006 Ericsson Does Security Deal With Trend Micro -09/03/2006 Tag This Now: