Following on the heels of our Google Apps Marketplace launch yesterday for PC Security Informer, there was one item of news that got overlooked in the excitement.

A new 2.0 release of the Napera ActiveAgent for Windows and Mac is now available online. Our ActiveAgent is a lightweight installer that helps you configure Microsoft’s  NAP technology that is part of Windows, a task usually only achieved by the bravest of mortals with the appropriate degrees in rocket science. On Macintosh, the Napera ActiveAgent provides reporting capabilities for OS X overlooked by our friends in Cupertino.

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Today we are excited to announce a new release of Napera Insight featuring integration with Google Apps, as announced in this mornings press release.

PC Security Informer now works with Google Apps, and can be added via Google Apps Marketplace. This is a great option for IT admins as companies continue to migrate core functions of their business to cloud based offerings. The Google Apps Marketplace combines multiple, synergistic cloud based offerings in a single location, with unified authentication and a common dashboard. Over two million businesses use Google Apps today, and since the launch of Google Apps Marketplace earlier this year, apps have been deployed to over a million users.

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As an IT admin in a small or medium sized company, keeping up with new issues on your PCs and network is a never ending challenge. We designed the Napera Insight alerting and reporting engine to help with this, and you can use Napera Insight to proactively keep on top of new issues that require your attention. With the onslaught of OS updates and malware facing every IT admin today, nearly 90% of our users told us they want to see this information on a regular basis, so we’ve made it easy to get exactly what you need in a timely fashion to keep your network secure.

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Tomorrow morning we are releasing an update to Napera Insight, our cloud based network management platform, based on customer feedback.

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A new Gartner survey of 270 IT and business management professionals from a variety of industries in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific shows a healthy 95 percent of organizations plan to maintain or grow their SaaS use through 2010.

“SaaS applications clearly are no longer seen as a new deployment model by our survey base, with almost half of those surveyed affirming use of SaaS applications in their business for more than three years,” said Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner.

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2010 is turning into a banner year for companies offering new network and systems management offerings with a cloud based SaaS approach. When we launched Napera Insight, our cloud based network and systems management platform in March, we couldn’t have predicted that first half of this year would be so busy with announcements.

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Today we released an update to Napera Insight, our cloud based network management platform, with great new features for our customers. This is our first update since Napera Insight shipped on March 1st.

Our PC Security Informer app got most of the attention in this release. All remote PC’s reporting in via the Napera ActiveAgent now display geolocation based on their IP address. For our customers using Mac’s, we now check each Mac is configured to require a password when logging in, a common Mac security issue in an office environment. Read the full article…

This morning we are excited to announce the release of the first app for Napera Insight, our breakthrough network management service in the cloud. PC Security Informer helps IT managers prevent avoidable security compromises caused by missing security patches, ineffective antivirus and antispyware software and inoperative desktop firewalls. It’s a 100% cloud based subscription service, and you can be up and running in minutes.

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