mobilEcho, created by GroupLogic, Inc. is a

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system for iPhone and

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. It was first introduced on May 23, 2011 at

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. mobilEcho (mE) is

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(IT) software for securely integrating iPhones, iPads and

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phones and tablets with corporate

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s and networks. mobilEcho is installed on corporate file servers by IT departments and installed on iPhones, iPads and Android phones and

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s by users; it allows for storage and secure transfer of files back and forth directly between servers and iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets. mobilEcho is the iOS client for GroupLogic's enterprise file sharing and synching solution, activEcho.

Background

As of January 2011,

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stated that 80% of The

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companies have deployed or tested the iPad due to the

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of the

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– the trend of new technology emerging within the consumer market first and then spreading into enterprise organizations. This statistic has increased by 15% since October 2010. The consumerization of the enterprise has allowed employees to bring personal

s, such as iPads, into the work environment and employees use them to connect to the corporate file server and network. This trend has raised security issues within the enterprise, as employees are unable to bring the corporate security infrastructure home with them on iPads. iOS devices currently have no native file system that's accessible by users and are not inherently capable of accessing corporate files without using third-party

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s like Dropbox and

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, or by users emailing the files to themselves. These workarounds have some believe to compromise enterprise security.

mobilEcho Release History

*5.0 (Released: 12 November 2013): mobilEcho is fully localized into English, French, German and Japanese *4.5.2 (Released 18 October 2013): added support for authentication via smart cards (CAC/PIV) using PKard technology licensed from Thursby Software. *4.5 (Released: 21 August 2013) *4.3 (Released: 14 March 2013): added support for the secure MobileIron AppConnect ecosystem *4.2 (Released: 14 February 2013) *4.1 (Released: 7 December 2012) *4.0 (Released: 26 July 2012): added support for access to networked attached storage

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and Microsoft SharePoint sites including, starting with version 4.5, SharePoint Online for Office 365. *3.7 (Released: 11 June 2012): added support for the secure

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Good Dynamics ecosystem *3.6 (Released: April 2012) *3.5 (Released: 16 February 2012) *3.0 (Released: 25 October 2011) *2.1 (Released: 13 July 2011) *2.0 (Released: 23 May 2011)

References

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