Polycom and McAfee Alliance to Further Secure Unified Communications and Collaboration
July 28 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Marking yet another category-defining innovation for
telepresence, Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM) and McAfee, Inc.
(NYSE:MFE) today announced a framework for a global strategic
alliance to jointly develop and deliver Secure Unified
Communications and Collaboration (UCC). With security threats on
the rise, Polycom and McAfee are taking a proactive approach to
further enhance the security features of Polycom’s video,
telepresence and infrastructure solutions. Polycom plans to design
solutions that feature McAfee threat protection, shielding Polycom
telepresence users, from the desktop to the fully immersive suite,
from potential and increasingly sophisticated security threats
while making it easier to comply with privacy and confidentiality
mandates.
The alliance will address a growing need for enhanced security
as organizations of all sizes increasingly turn to video
conferencing and telepresence to reduce costs, improve
productivity, and maintain operations in the face of business
disruptions. The enhanced protections can also help IT managers in
regulated industries – from health care to financial services –
lessen the burden of meeting compliance and reporting
requirements.
“Faster networks and a growing desire among enterprises to
transform their work environments via telepresence have placed
video collaboration at a tipping point,” said Andrew Miller,
Polycom president and CEO. “This makes the need to provide Secure
Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions an urgent one,
and that’s why we’re partnering with McAfee.”
Miller added, “We’re pleased to incorporate acclaimed McAfee
threat protection solutions into the Polycom product line. We want
to provide a secure, end-to-end environment that protects
telepresence and video collaboration for our customers, which is an
increasingly important component of unified communications.”
“Working with Polycom to deliver on the vision of a Secure
Unified Communications and Collaboration environment fits perfectly
with our mission to help users safely communicate and collaborate
wherever they may be,” said David DeWalt, president and CEO of
McAfee. “With its dedication to open standards and flexible,
easy-to-use solutions, Polycom continues to demonstrate that it
puts customers first by offering protection of custom-integrated
McAfee-based security solutions.”
The alliance has three main areas of collaboration: joint
research and development, sales and market alignment, and
participation in activities promoting innovation and
standardization of UC security solutions.
The two companies will join R&D forces to:
- Incorporate McAfee’s advanced
threat protection solutions, including the McAfee® ePolicy
Orchestrator console, into Polycom UC endpoints and Intelligent
Core, offering increased management and protection.
- Align monitoring and
provisioning tools to deliver powerful, secure device configuration
and compliance capabilities.
- Extend the reach of McAfee
security leadership to ensure the veracity and security of the
myriad applications that differentiate Polycom unified
communications.
McAfee and Polycom will support joint go-to-market activities
including:
- A co-selling arrangement that
includes sales and technical training as well as post-sales support
and service offerings.
- Joint channel alignment and
enablement.
- Joint marketing efforts
including collateral, participation in promotional events, webinars
and user conferences.
The joint effort introduces McAfee into the ecosystem of
technology leaders participating in the Polycom Open Collaboration
Network – an alliance of industry innovators whose best-of-breed
solutions enable anytime, any device collaboration across a range
of enterprise platforms.
About Polycom
Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) is a global leader in telepresence,
video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that
empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere. Please visit
www.polycom.com for more
information or connect with Polycom on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the
world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is
committed to relentlessly tackling the world's toughest security
challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and
services that help secure systems and networks around the world,
allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse, and shop
the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team,
McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users,
businesses, the public sector, and service providers by enabling
them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent
disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and
improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com
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implied.
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