Virtela Receives 2011 Internet Telephony Excellence Award For Global Cloud-based Mobile Device Management Service
Breakthrough Service Leveraging Virtela Enterprise Services
Cloud (ESC) Honored for Outstanding Innovation and Customer
Success
DENVER, October 20, 2011 - Virtela, the world's
largest independent managed network, security and cloud services
company, today announced it has won the 2011 INTERNET
TELEPHONY Excellence Award for its
Cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) service, the
industry's first global cloud service for managing and securing
mobile devices. Presented by TMC and INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine,
the seventh annual awards recognize companies for outstanding
achievements in IP communications solutions, based on
demonstrated improvements these solutions have made to
customers' businesses.
Virtela's Cloud MDM service has proven to greatly simplify
managing the pervasive use of smartphones and tablets in the
enterprise, with faster service delivery and a faster return on
investment than traditional approaches. Powered by Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC), the only
cloud platform purpose‐built for enterprise networking, security
and mobility, the Cloud MDM service can be instantly deployed via
Virtela ESC's 50 Local Cloud Centers (LCCs) at a significantly
lower cost than on-premises solutions. Virtela's carrier-, vendor-
and technology-independent model provides a unified solution with
unprecedented reach to 190+ countries, independent of the mobile
operator or platform (including Apple iOS, Blackberry, Android,
Windows Mobile and Symbian).
By leveraging the company's global cloud infrastructure and 24x7
proactive support, Virtela's Cloud MDM service offloads
overburdened IT organizations, delivering improved service
delivery, security, compliance enforcement, risk mitigation, and
cost savings. The service has zero upfront charges and offers
per-user pricing, regardless of the number of devices. Backed by
the first Real-Time Notification Service Level Agreement (SLA) for
managed mobility services, the service guarantees customers will be
alerted within 15 minutes of mobile activities that compromise
corporate policies, such as rogue application access or
roaming/data usage overages.
"We are honored to receive this recognition, which further
illustrates Virtela's commitment to innovative cloud-based services
that address the changing needs of enterprise customers," said Mark
Hansard, Virtela's vice president of security and systems. "With
the proliferation of smart devices, every company faces challenges
in implementing a mobility strategy. We have proven to remove the
complexity and intensive resources traditionally required with a
comprehensive managed service that promises higher productivity and
cost savings on a global basis."
Virtela maintains partnerships with hundreds of carriers around
the world, resulting in its unique multi-carrier Overlay Network
that offers customers industry-leading performance and
availability. This architecture, combined with Virtela's
best-in-class support and advanced cloud technologies, has earned
the company a number of recent industry awards including the
2010 Communications Solutions Product of the Year,
GTB Innovation Award for Business Service Innovation and
Frost and Sullivan Product Leadership Award, all of which
recognized Virtela's
Cloud-based Application Acceleration service. Virtela also won
the prestigious
2011 American Business Award for Customer Service Department of the
Year, illustrating its commitment to superior customer
support.
The 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners
are published in the October 2011 issue of INTERNET
TELEPHONY magazine. For more information, visit www.itmag.com.
About Virtela
Virtela Technology Services Incorporated is the world's largest
independent managed network, security and cloud services company.
Virtela offers an award-winning suite of services - including MPLS
and IP-based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), security, application
acceleration and remote infrastructure management - to midmarket
and Fortune 500 customers around the world. Virtela offers
unparalleled geographic reach to more than 190 countries through
its partnerships with more than 500 carriers.
Virtela is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with globally
distributed Network Operations Centers in the U.S., India and the
Philippines. For more information, please call +1 (720) 475-4000 or
visit www.virtela.net.
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Media Contacts:
Jane Morrissey
Virtela
+1.720.475.4012
jmorrissey@virtela.net
Stacey Mann
Greenough Communications
+1.617.275.6523
smann@greenoughcom.com