Press Release
FaceTime Announces Program to Eliminate URL Filtering Fees, saving Customers up to $35,000
BELMONT, Calif - February 3, 2009 - FaceTime Communications, the leading
provider of solutions to secure and manage Web 2.0 and unified communications
in the enterprise, today announced its program to eliminate URL filtering fees
for new purchases of its Unified Security Gateway (USG) appliance.
With the Forget the Fees program, a 1,000-seat organization can save up to
$35,000 over a two year contract period based on typical industry pricing,
while deploying a more complete secure Web gateway solution that not only
monitors Web browsing traffic but also controls Web 2.0 applications, blocks
malware at the gateway and enables the safe and productive use of Unified
Communications (Microsoft OCS, IBM Lotus SameTime, and public instant
messaging).
FaceTime today also announced version 2.0 of its Unified Security Gateway
(USG), a secure Web gateway appliance purpose-built for the new Internet. USG
2.0 provides a single point of control for preventing malware, controlling Web
2.0 applications and managing information leakage in corporate networks. Unique
to this new version, IT managers can detect and control 1,400 Web 2.0 and
real-time applications with the same granular policies they have come to expect
from dedicated URL filtering solutions (see related announcement).
"While URL filtering has become a feature of broader secure Web gateway
products, the associated fees remain an annual expense and significant budget
requirement for most organizations." said Frank Cabri, vice president of
marketing for FaceTime Communications. "During challenging economic times, this
new program allows IT managers and purchasing agents to realize tremendous
value by getting malware prevention and application control in addition to URL
filtering, for less than the cost of URL filtering alone."
The presence of Web 2.0 applications in corporate networks has grown
exponentially in recent years, often undetected by IT managers and unchecked by
legacy security products. FaceTime gathered live application tracking data from
commercially deployed USG units at more than 80 mid to large enterprises
worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2008, which shows an average of 49 Web
2.0 applications installed across each of the reporting locations. In contrast,
during the same timeframe FaceTime asked a large sample of IT managers how many
Web 2.0 applications they believed were in use on their networks, and one third
estimated the number at less than eight.
The Forget the Fees program is available on new contracts signed before April
30, 2009. IT mangers should contact FaceTime at 888-349-FACE to find out how
much they can save with FaceTime's Forget the Fees program. Information is also
available on the Web at http://www.facetime.com/nofees.
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant
messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one by
IDC for five consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 1000 customers – including nine of the 10 largest U.S. banks – for
security, management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime
supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and enterprise
IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM and Jabber.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE.
The FaceForward blog, at http://blog.facetime.com,
offers thoughts and opinions about the changing nature of Internet communications.
PR Contact:
Joshua Barnes
A&R Edelman
650-762-2865
joshua.barnes@ar-edelman.com
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