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Mocana Launches Mocana Atlas Extended Enterprise Engine [Professional Services Close - Up](Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Mocana has introduced the Mocana Atlas extended enterprise engine, a purpose-built platform designed to aid enterprise mobile app deployments. According to a release, the Mocana Atlas appliance mitigates many of the toughest security bottlenecks that typify large-scale rollouts. Deployed behind the firewall, Mocana Atlas securely connects mobile apps to back-end systems with simplicity for IT and one-click access for end-users, across the entire extended enterprise. Mocana Atlas is available now in private beta. So far, enterprises have lagged far behind consumers in mobile app adoption. Industry analysts report that the average user has more than 40 consumer apps on their smartphone, while a typical smartphone used in the workplace has only four enterprise apps. This gap between consumer and enterprise app adoption is severely limiting the value that companies could reap from leveraging higher- value enterprise apps beyond simple PIM, email and calendaring. The bottleneck is security and the near-impossible task IT departments face when asked to vet unfamiliar apps as safe for myriad mobile platforms that need to access hundreds of critical enterprise datastores and services. Mocana Atlas delivers the 'missing link' that makes it possible for enterprises to fully mobilize their workforces, intellectual assets and value propositions at global scale, and at significantly lower cost than traditional approaches. Mocana Atlas works with existing mobile device management (MDM) or mobile application management (MAM) software. It supports both iOS and Android, and can extend security policies to apps on unmanaged devices used by partners, contractors or others outside the enterprise network. Mocana Atlas is scheduled to be commercially available in Summer 2014 as a compact form-factor, FIPS 140-2 Level 3-ready network appliance designed to support thousands of concurrent encrypted mobile app connections. "Colgate-Palmolive is at the forefront of enterprise mobility, and as a MAP customer, we appreciate innovations like Mocana Atlas, which is designed to help us scale our mobile transformations globally and securely," said Jason Russo, mobility lead at Colgate- Palmolive, one of several Fortune 500 companies already piloting the Mocana Atlas solution, which also include two of the world's largest financial institutions as well as several defense contractors. "Today's extended enterprise needs to protect sensitive data from any mobile device, whether they manage it or not, all the way back to the firewall," said Carlos Montero-Luque, chief technology officer at Apperian. "The new Mocana Atlas will help us enable our Enterprise App Service Environment (EASE) platform for managing and securing mobile apps to do just that. We see Mocana Atlas as a game- changer that helps us deliver secure connections from MAP-protected mobile apps to enterprise servers at massive scale." More information: mocana.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |