Hybrid Cloud Offering: F5 Mobile App Manager

F5 Networks has announced hybrid cloud solution for mobile application F5 Mobile App Manager, enabling organizations to support enterprise BYOD initiatives in a cost-effective manner. With F5 Mobile App Manager, enterprises can extend corporate applications and data to employees’ personal mobile devices while leaving all personal content under the control of the device owner.

F5 Mobile App Manager combines the policy management and secure application delivery features of the BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) with SaaS offering. It connects only corporate applications to the enterprise network, and it manages only the enterprise content and applications on a device rather than the entire device itself.

F5 Mobile App Manager enables employee-owned devices to control device access to their network, track inventory, monitor threats and vulnerabilities, and protect corporate information.

Mark Vondemkamp, VP of Security Product Management and Marketing, F5, said, “As more employees want to use personal devices in the workplace, enterprise IT has had to make tough choices: support BYOD initiatives despite having limited security controls, impose complete control over employees’ personal devices using MDM solutions, or reject BYOD initiatives altogether. F5 Mobile App Manager enables IT to make intelligent BYOD choices that benefit both the company and employees; it gives IT the control and flexibility it needs to protect corporate resources without restricting an employee’s use of the device or infringing on their privacy.”

F5 Mobile App Manager solution will be demonstrated at the 2013 RSA Conference in San Francisco.