KUALA LUMPUR, 17 NOVEMBER 2008 - French communications giant Alcatel-Lucent has launched its Dynamic Enterprise framework in Malaysia to help companies become more competitive.
Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific vice president, enterprise business, Dr Wolfgang Hackenburg said that companies needed the Dynamic Enterprise approach to enhance their communications infrastructure. “Accelerated market change through social networking has resulted in customers using Facebook, YouTube and so forth, which has set expectations on how to better access information,” said Dr Hackenburg.
“Mobile users are faced with the serious problem of ensuring information security, when there is more information available today,” he said. “Knowledge has to be continually accessible to the right people at the right time.”
Dynamic Enterprise in Asia
“Mobility must go hand-in-hand with secure access,” said Dr Hackenberg. “Dynamic Enterprise unifies four major strands—people, process, network and knowledge—into an integrated whole.”
This would allow people to communicate, perform and innovate productively, he added. “Our open framework is delivered by about 650 products and solutions. For example, we service entire hospital infrastructures in the US.”
In Asia, Dr Hackenberg said that the Dynamic Enterprise approach has been adopted by banks, energy companies, as well as government financial policy units, to become more productive and competitive.
“Malaysian examples include the education sector and the energy company, Tenaga National,” said Alcatel-Lucent enterprise business country manager for Malaysia & Indonesia, Yew Nein Hai.
Non-stop laptop guardian
Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific director, security solutions, enterprise business group, Ricky Ong, demonstrated its OmniAccess 3500 non-stop Laptop Guardian (NLG), a managed mobile security solution.
“NLG is one element only of the Dynamic Enterprise framework and is to bring enhanced 24/7 security to the growing mobile workforce,” said Ong. "Three out of four companies have experienced data loss from missing laptops. More than 600,000 laptop thefts occur annually, according to a Safeware Insurance 2003 study."
He said that mobile devices are a blind spot in enterprise security. “NLG, which is delivered by an always-on plug-in card, offers remote fast auto offline backup, patch updates, content encryption, and virtually eliminates end users from the security process.”
“The NLG card, which will be priced around US$300-400, includes its own battery, processor, GSM, 3G communications, GPS (Geo Positioning by Satellite), and allows remote IT management,” he said. “If the laptop is stolen, you can instruct your IT manager to lock up, or destroy the laptop data, as well as help to locate the device via GPS or 3G coordinates.”
“Business continuity, security, enhanced productivity and compliance are just some of the benefits from this solution for large enterprise to small and medium businesses (SMBs),” said Ong.
