Integration with NitroDesk’s TouchDown Provides Enterprise-grade Mobile Security for Android Devices

As Android Devices Continue to Proliferate across the Enterprise, AirWatch’s Integration with TouchDown Lets Organizations Easily Manage and Secure Employee-liable Devices

ATLANTA – March 22, 2011 – AirWatch, a leading provider of enterprise-grade Mobile Device and Smartphone Management (MDM) software, and NitroDesk, developers of a leading Exchange ActiveSync-based email solution for Android smartphones and tablets, announce the integration of AirWatch and NitroDesk’s TouchDown. With this tight integration, corporate IT can securely deploy, monitor, manage and support large fleets of Android devices across their enterprise.

Designed especially for organizations with a growing population of Android-powered, employee-owned devices, the integrated AirWatch and TouchDown solution extends the reach of AirWatch’s industry-leading MDM functionality into the Email subsystem, providing a safe, secure mobile environment for corporate email, calendar, contacts and tasks running on ActiveSync-supported servers. This integrated solution lets corporate IT enable and enforce security policies, prevent the loss of sensitive corporate data, and monitor for internal and external compliance. Providing a secure email environment for Android devices is particularly important in industry verticals with significant governmental and industry regulations, including healthcare, financial services and retail.

“As Android’s adoption rate continues to increase, we are excited to partner with a global leader like AirWatch,” said Ronald Goins, COO of NitroDesk Inc. “Our two solutions provide the functionality needed to ensure Android-powered devices can be easily and safely secured and managed when accessing corporate resources. This is especially crucial as more and more organizations start welcoming employee-owned devices running Android.”

“Enterprises of all sizes need a safe, secure and reliable way to manage Android devices, particularly those that are employee-owned. The combined AirWatch-TouchDown solution provides users with a reliable, robust and cost-effective solution, meeting not only their security needs, but also providing the device user with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface,” says John Marshall, AirWatch’s CEO.

AirWatch’s enterprise-grade mobile device management solution is available in three delivery options: Software as a Service (SaaS), a dedicated software appliance and software deployed on premise behind a corporate firewall, which can be fully virtualized and provides high availability. The solution’s delivery options allow for the flexibility to transition easily across the different models.

AirWatch’s comprehensive and cost-effective design simplifies enterprise mobility for companies managing less than 50 devices to large, multi-national enterprises requiring a single, integrated management console (from a single instance of the software) to not only manage their enterprise-wide mobility initiatives and policies, but also to manage the specific needs and challenges within each division and country. AirWatch’s global customer base numbers more than 1,000, with many customers using the solution to manage over 50,000 mobile devices and several customers are in deployment for over 500,000 devices.

About NitroDesk
Founded in May 2008, NitroDesk Inc. is the developer of the popular TouchDown application which lets users synchronize their Android-powered handsets and devices with corporate email, contacts calendar, tasks and notes on their Microsoft Exchange Servers. NitroDesk is based in Bellevue, Washington.

About AirWatch

AirWatch is the global leader and innovator of enterprise-grade smartphone security and mobile device management solutions. Positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software 2011, AirWatch helps to deploy, secure, track and manage an enterprise's entire fleet of Android, Apple iOS, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Windows 7 devices. In October 2011, Info-Tech Research Group listed AirWatch as a “Champion” in the firm's Mobile Device Management Vendor Landscape and also listed it as the “best bang for your buck” through its Value Score, which indexes each product offering and business strength relative to their price point.

AirWatch offers the industry's most scalable and flexible deployment options with Software as a Service (SaaS), appliance or on-premise solutions. SaaS pricing starts at a $4 per month per device. Appliance pricing starts at a one-time fee of $5,000 for the hardware and includes a one-year warranty. On-premise pricing starts at a one-time fee of $50 per device.

An award-winning company, AirWatch has more than 2,000 customers in the retail, financial services, healthcare, government, distribution, education, hospitality, manufacturing, telecommunications and transportation industries. For more information, visit www.air‐watch.com.

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