Cloud Distribution partners with Fiberlink to enable resellers to tap into $500m*+ MDM market

Reading, UK – 7^th May 2013 – Security and networking value added distributor, Cloud Distribution, has signed an agreement with Fiberlink to distribute MaaS360, its award-winning, enterprise mobility management platform that spans across devices, users, applications, documents and expenses.  Named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management, MaaS360’s secure cloud infrastructure enables organisations to quickly and safely support their mobile operations.

According to industry analysts, The Radicati Group, worldwide revenues for the MDM market totalled $525 million at the end of 2012. This figure is expected to grow to over $1.1 billion by year-end 2016. This represents an average annual growth rate of about 21% over the next four years.

Adam Davison, director at Cloud Distribution, said: “As the Enterprise Mobility & BYOD phenomenon takes hold and more and more workers bring personal mobile devices to work, organisations must quickly respond to the security and compliance risks posed by largely unmanaged access to corporate information, as well as the risks associated with a lost or stolen device that contain corporate information. Traditional MDM solutions are complex, and expensive.  The beauty of MaaS360 is that it’s innovative, simple to use and very cost-effective – and as such perfectly fits our vendor selection criteria.”

MaaS360 presents resellers with an opportunity to participate in this rapidly growing market, which is traditionally associated with lengthy sales cycles and complex deployments.  With no software to install and -immediate access to trial, organisations can be up and running with MaaS360 in just minutes, leading to faster, less sales resource intense and more profitable sales cycles that resellers can measure in just days.

MaaS360 provides companies with the key technologies needed to configure smartphones and tablets over the air, enforce security policies, separate corporate and personal data, and securely distribute mobile apps and documents. It has won multiple awards and has most recently received recognition from Techworld, the Enterprise Mobility Forum, and CRN .

Steve Hammond VP International Sales from Fiberlink, added: “MaaS360 lets organisations provision, secure and manage their mobile devices and apps — all from a single portal — while minimising risk to the organisation. It makes the complex world of mobility simple by giving our customers a global mobile infrastructure without the burden of a large financial investment.”

* Source: Gartner

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About Cloud Distribution

Cloud Distribution is a value-added distributor of disruptive next-generation security and networking solutions that VARs can take to market quickly and easily. It currently distributes Meraki, Lastline Inc., Talon Storage Solutions, Watchful Software, Tanaza, PepLink, Vyatta and Vit@r in the UK. Its portfolio of disruptive networking and security solutions helps resellers to differentiate themselves from the competition and create new markets to sell in.

                                                                    

The company was founded in 2009 by senior executives with a wealth of experience in the security, networking and optimisation space. Its philosophy is to take innovative, cutting-edge vendors into the UK market by recruiting and working together with skilled, reputable, market making partners.

For further information please visit www.cloud-distribution.com.

About MaaS360

MaaS360 by Fiberlink simplifies mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), and secure document sharing in the BYOD era. Trusted by small businesses, government agencies, universities, and large enterprises worldwide, MaaS360 enables mobile policies that boost productivity, protect employee privacy, and secure sensitive data across smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Built on a highly scalable, multitenant architecture, MaaS360’s on-demand mobility management can be deployed in minutes and seamlessly integrates with existing infrastructure, extending enterprise systems to a mobile environment. Backed by 20 years of experience and the most responsive customer service in the industry, MaaS360 helps organisations transform business operations and reduce the costs of supporting the expanding mobile workforce. To learn more and get started, visit http://www.maas360.com.

Enterasys Networks signs Cloud Distribution for security play

Enterasys Networks signs Cloud Distribution for security play: Enterasys “Happy with Arrow” for networking but channel to grow by a third in security space.

Siemens Enterprise has signed up Cloud Distribution to push its Enterasys Networks’ OneFabric Security Access Management portfolio across the UK and Ireland.

According to Mark Pearce, EMEA director channels and alliances, the firm is happy with its agreement with Arrow that manage around 20 partners predominately within its networking space but it expects to sign up around “five to ten [new partners through Cloud distribution] within 12 months.”

VAD Cloud Distribution will focus on Enterasysbranded OneFabric security solutions through an enhanced Advantage Partner Programme, creating a new category of partner focused on Mobile IAM, Network Access Control and Security Information and Event Manager (SIEM) products. However, the deal does not cover Intrusion Detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) or any network switching.

“We have witnessed the need for greater security and network access control focus within the reseller channel,” explains Pearce, “Cloud Distribution’s sustained growth and growing vendor portfolio makes them a great VAD to distribute our security portfolio and to explore further revenue streams.”

Cloud Distribution’s Adam Davison adds: “Being selected by Enterasys as the company’s dedicated security channel partner for the UK underscores our reputation as a serious player in this market - not only for our understanding of the security eco-system, but for the value-add services we deliver to help our vendors and reseller grow their businesses.”

The deal also complements parts of Cloud Distribution’s portfolio including a recent agreement with MDM vendor Fiberlink and secure mobile file sharing supplier Talon Storage Solutions.

Sinefa - Quality Overview Report

Sinefa is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new quality overview report. Thanks to some great feedback from our user community, we’ve developed a report that displays all the quality, application utilization and capacity results for one or more locations on a single page. This report allows users to quickly correlate interesting events with changes in quality, utilization and capacity, which ultimately leads to quick troubleshooting and resolution of problems.

Highlights
Quickly view quality, utilization and capacity results for an individual location, together in a single report.
Correlate events over time – all the time series charts are aligned and zoom in sync which allows users to easily understand if a problem is congestion, quality or capacity related.

Proactive network management made easy with the ability to analyze quality, utilization and capacity trends over time for the entire WAN, a group of locations, or individual locations.


Sinefa collects hundreds of thousands of samples, measurements, metrics and results for every location each day and we are continuously looking at new and innovative ways to make the most of all this information. The ability to quickly view, digest, compare and analyse all this data is critically important, particularly as more and more applications and services rely on the network. Whether it’s for troubleshooting, trend analysis or capacity planning, the new quality overview report makes it super easy.

The power of being able to view application utilization, quality and capacity on the same time series allows users to quickly understand if a problem is congestion, a drop in network quality or a reduction in promised capacity. The following example explains how.

Example Scenario
After receiving an alert for high delay at a particular location, I want to find out what is causing it.
Solution: With the new quality overview report, simply view the location of interest and find the increased delay in the time series chart. This increase in delay lines up with a sudden increase in utilization, caused by a streaming video application. The capacity results remain unchanged, so the increase in delay is caused by congestion, due to the video.The quality overview report is available today and can be found by selecting Reports -> Quality, Overview from the menu.

What to know more ? - http://www.cloud-distribution.com/sinefa/

Cloud Distribution to sell Enterasys security kit

Cloud Distribution to sell Enterasys security kit: Expansive Cloud Distribution has added Enterasys mobile IAM, NAC and SIEM solutions to its catalogue

Since hiring networking vet Adam Davison with a brief to sniff out new and emerging vendors, Cloud Distribution has already signed storage software specialist Talon and datacentric information security solutions provider Watchful Software.

The addition of Enterasys, which is more popularly known for its wireless products, will help Cloud Distribution resellers address customers struggling with mobility concerns, the company said.

The deal, which sees Cloud Distribution take on Enterasys’ mobile IAM BYOD security solution as well as its NAC and SIEM tools, also sees a new security specialist category added to Enterasys’ Advantage Partner Programme, which will be managed exclusively by the distie.

“Being selected by Enterasys as the company’s dedicated security channel partner for the UK underscores our reputation as a serious player in this market,” said Davison, “not only for our understanding of the security ecosystem but for the value-add services we deliver.”

Mark Pearce, Enterasys EMEA channels and alliance director, said that the company was witnessing more and more buyers being told to mobilise their workforce, which meant security was becoming a much more important factor in the Enterasys’ reseller pitch.

“Cloud Distribution’s sustained growth and growing vendor portfolio makes them a great VAD to distribute our security portfolio and to explore further revenue streams,” he said.

The fundamental principle of breach prevention!

The fundamental principle of breach prevention!

                                      

	A layered Information Protection solution to keep data safe and secure regardless of whether it is in transit or stored inside or outside your perimeter	*		An advanced Persistent Security mechanism, using state-of-the-art e-Biometrics, to continuously verify that the people using your systems are who you think they are	*

For the past two decades, vast amounts of money and countless hours have been invested in breach prevention. The order of the day has been to harden network and server access through the deployment and redeployment of an evolving series of firewalls, anti-spam/anti-virus applications and intrusion detection and prevention systems – all of them, in essence, attempts to ‘reinforce the perimeter’ to protect what lies within.

While this remains good and necessary IT practise, it takes no account of two very important and inescapable truths:

• users are always inside the perimeter, and
• even those authorised users can cause significant damage.

By ignoring these, CIOs fail to address possibly the most fundamental persistent threat, that of a breach orchestrated by one or more of their organisation’s own users.

The antidote to this insider threat is to arrange persistent protection and control over information at all times. The best of today’s data-centric technologies ensure that even if confidential data is released, it is rendered meaningless to whoever may acquire it.

So long as the data itself is encrypted then there is control over who should be able to read it, when they are able to do so and for how long. This means that even if an insider with no malicious intent inadvertently misdirects sensitive data, it remains inaccessible and damage limitation can take place.

A data-centric approach to data breaches isn’t mutually exclusive of any other forms of defence, but the addition of classification and encryption mechanisms ensure the protection and control of proprietary information - arguably as important an asset of any company as its people.

RightsWATCH and TypeWATCH are market-leading products designed to keep sensitive information safe from security breaches resulting from malicious wrongdoing or inadvertent misuse. Come and see live demonstrations of just how simple they are to implement and use on stand O80 @ InfoSEC Europe, 23-25 April, Earls Court, London, UK.

More info at www@watchfulsoftware.com

Check your phone: Nations with the most mobile malware

Check your phone: Nations with the most mobile malware: Security threats from mobile malware are on the rise and nearly 95% of targets operate on the Android operating system, according to a new report from NQ Mobile.