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the Free CMSWire NewsletterThis week there has been a whole spate of new releases in the world of GRC, most of which — unsurprisingly — have been focused on better security. There have also been a couple of acquisitions as well as increasing interest in services and cloud computing.
Symantec Goes Mobile
Security software provider Symantec (news, site) has just announced that it has entered the world of mobile with the launch of a new version of its Norton software for Android smartphones.
The company says that the new anti-virus software is the first of its kind for Androids and enables users search and identify malware that may have affected their phones as well as offering the ability to delete private data off their mobile phones remotely in the event that the phone is lost.
The new application can scan over 100 applications in 30 seconds. Symantec says it is launching the new virus scan in anticipation of the explosion in the use of mobile internet browsing and the inevitable growth in the malware that will result.
The Norton software for Android mobiles is available in pre-release beta from the Android market and comes as a 3 month free-trial.
Iron Mountain Offers NearPoint To NetApp
Information management vendor Iron Mountain (news, site) has expanded its partnership with systems integrator InterVision to offer users of NetApp and Microsoft Exchange Iron Mountain's newly-acquired NearPoint solution for archiving, accessing and protecting email.
The integration means that Iron Mountain’s NearPoint archive leverages NetApp's Snapshot technology as the source for archived data and the compliant archival of data capture for all Microsoft Exchange database transactions and events.
This includes all email moves, message deletes, calendar items and contacts. In addition, the integration simplifies application data management by automating the complex, manual and time-consuming processes associated with the backup, recovery and verification of Exchange Server.
Prior to Iron Mountain's acquisition of Mimosa Systems in February, Mimosa and NetApp had an integration partnership which enabled the development of a comprehensive solution for integrated content archiving, storage management and data protection for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint environments.
GE Healthcare Adds SaaS Patient Portals
A new SaaS electronic medical records product from GE Healthcare has just been released that should bring SaaS to small and even remote medical practices across the US.
Interesting for many reasons not least of which that the new product is bringing SaaS to very very small users, the new service will give medical practitioners a combination of EMR, physician administrative management and patient portals that all comply with current regulations and at a fraction of the price of similar on-premise software.
The patient self-service portal enables patients to access their own personal medical records (PMR) through their own secure password and effectively manage their own healthcare.
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