Azaleos Plugs iPhone 3G into Exchange E-mail
7/8/2008
SEATTLE, Wash., July 8, 2008 - Azaleos® Corporation, the managed Microsoft Exchange services company, today announced that its services support the soon to be released iPhone 3G and provide seamless integration with Microsoft Exchange servers. Azaleos remotely managed services enable organizations to synchronize and centrally control 3G and firmware-upgraded first generation iPhones using their Microsoft Exchange infrastructure. Azaleos has a heritage of managing Windows and non-Windows mobile devices, including the Blackberry, which is supported by its MobileXchange service.
“The mass popularity of the iPhone has created an influx of these unmanaged devices onto business networks, which represents a major support and security challenge for IT departments,” said David Ferris,
president and senior analyst of Ferris Research. “The ability to bring these devices under control with Microsoft Exchange and managed services from Azaleos is a significant step forward for organizations.”
With today’s announcement, customers can rely on Azaleos to extend Exchange connectivity and management to iPhone users on their network. Leveraging ActiveSync technology, Azaleos brings iPhone devices under the control of its service to manage an enterprise’s entire messaging environment. The benefits of Azaleos services and Exchange include constantly synced email, calendars and contacts; the ability to erase all data from lost or stolen iPhones using the Remote Wipe function; and enhanced IT control not available with IMAP or POP3 accounts.
Azaleos now provides the most comprehensive set of monitoring and management services for mobile devices -- spanning iPhones, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices. In addition, the Azaleos MobileXchange service continues to provide remote monitoring, management and administration of Blackberry Enterprise Servers.
“Managing iPhones with Microsoft Exchange addresses the huge support and security issues that have plagued IT departments for the past year,” said Scott Gode, Vice President of Product Management of Azaleos. “Azaleos customers can now bring these formerly rogue devices under the same management and policy control as their Windows mobile devices through the 24/7 Azaleos service.”
Azaleos Managed Services
Azaleos Managed Services provide the most complete and reliable set of remotely managed services for Exchange, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Blackberry Enterprise Server, and Active Directory. The Azaleos services model allows customers to keep hardware and data secure on their corporate premise, while outsourcing the monitoring and management headaches and costs. In addition to the core monitoring and management of Exchange Server, the Azaleos services include:
About Azaleos
Azaleos Corporation provides the benefits of hosted e-mail and collaboration services for organizations that can’t or won’t allow their data to reside outside the datacenter. Azaleos’ 24X7X365 remotely managed services for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Office Communications Server, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server keep information on-premise and under IT control, while uptime, maintenance, and support is handled by experts in its network operations centers.
More than 150 companies from Fortune 500 to mid-market enterprises rely on Azaleos and its patented ViewX technology to manage their collaboration infrastructures and address issues before users ever know they exist. Azaleos is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, and one of Microsoft’s top 35 partners in the US. For more information visit www.azaleos.com.
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