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FaceTime Announces Program to Eliminate URL Filtering Fees, Saving Customers up to $35,000
| Source: FaceTime Communications
BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - 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.
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"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 managers 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 1,000 customers 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
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