AppSense DataNow – What’s the Hype

The guys n gals at the AppSense have been pretty busy over the last 12 months and one of the apps that have hit us is AppSense Datanow (formely known as Project Orca) and soon to follow they will be releasing AppSense MobileNow.

Citrix have always pushed the premise of Any Device, Anywhere and this has been a glimmer into what we now see as a fundamental part of everyday working - BYOD and other flexible mobile work style solutions.

AppSense DataNow and the soon to be released MobileNow have taken the requirements of the modern day organisation and enabled the parts we require.

So what is it in and why is it key to enabling the BYOD lifestyle? Three perspectives below;

The Sales 1 Liner – “Simple and secure user access to enterprise data across Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms”

My 1 Liner – "A corporate data access solution that can allows access from multiple devices"

The AppSense 1 Liner – “The design principle behind DataNow is to allow an organisation to deliver data from disparate storage methodologies (SMB, FTP, Cloud, SharePoint, Saas Services, etc) and present that to a user as a single pane of glass”

Even though my 1 liner is fairly simplistic, the product is a foundation to a whole lot more, and remember it’s not a cloud storage solution, just a product that enables access to one, whether that be public or private – and that’s just the start. The AppSense 1 Liner or should I say paragraph nails this.

So what’s next....

There are quite a few new features in the pipeline;

• There is an upcoming iOS client release (was named Project Astro) simply named DataNow, which will extend the cloud connector message from the client side.

• It will offer connectors to DataNow Server, DropBox, Box, ShareFIle, SkyDrive, WebDav and FTP storage. This will effectively create a view for all users to access all their data, personal and enterprise. This seems to help relay the message that DataNow isn’t a Cloud Storage Solution.

• The new client will have policy that can be enabled by the administrator to control how data behaves coming from the DataNow server connector. For example, they will be able to segregate data types (personal vs. corporate)

• There is also a second DataNow iOS client that will only offer the DataNow Server connector (to keep the security bods happy and at arm’s length).

Hope that helps explain it a bit better from a techies point of view.

When I get a second, I’ll cover the techie part for both DataNow components; the Virtual Appliance "DataNow Server" (also called "your Enterprise Data Gateway") and the Clients.

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