Motorola’s Good Technology Group to Expand Beyond Email with Good 6.0

Logistics Insight Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 12/6/2008

Motorola has announced the upcoming availability of Good Mobility Suite version 6.0 which includes a new managed-service virtual private network (VPN) as well as an enhanced device management and security platform. Good 6.0, which will include Good Mobile Connection, Good Administration Center and Good Mobile Messaging, will provide organizations with more secure, seamless, and manageable mobile access to enterprise information and applications.

The new Good Mobile Connection is a managed-service VPN that is capable of delivering a seamless, managed data connection from mobile devices to data and applications behind the corporate firewall. Good’s existing trusted transport, which is currently used for Good Mobile Messaging, will now enable other enterprise applications and services, such as instant messaging, intranets and thick-client applications to securely connect with behind-the-firewall resources.

“We expect the majority of enterprise users to have access to corporate applications from their mobile device within the next 2-3 years,” says Jack Gold, President of J. Gold Associates, LLC, an industry analyst firm based in Northborough, MA (www.jgoldassociates.com). “However, one of the limiting factors to providing such capability has been the inability to secure the connection and manage it seamlessly across multiple networks as users crossed network boundaries. End user transparent managed security is key to expanding the footprint of enterprise applications to more mobile devices.”

Good Mobile Connection provides a persistent network-agnostic connection via the Good Network Operations Center (NOC) to behind-the-firewall data and applications which improves the user experience for mobile workers. Organizations will now be able to deploy virtually any application leveraging standard TCP protocols over the Good Mobile Connection transport with no modifications or custom coding required. To guard against hacking or denial of service attacks, Good Mobile Connection allows IT to set granular restrictions on both the type and location of assets that can be accessed behind firewalls in addition to the device-level security capabilities provided in the Good Mobility Suite.

Motorola, www.motorola.com/good.