Coming Soon To Your iPhone: Junos Pulse

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Some great news for enterprises came from Apple today in the form of the iPhone OS 4 announcement.

In addition to a myriad of new and exciting end-user tools, including over 100 new features such as games and multitasking, Apple is taking a few steps to improve the iPhone’s ability to help enterprises manage the information flowing to and from their networks.  One such feature will be the OS 4 support of SSL VPN applications, including Juniper’s.

Juniper and Apple are already working together to develop our previously announced Junos® Pulse solution for OS 4. Today’s announcement is obviously very exciting for us – we are working hand-in-hand with Apple to pioneer SSL VPN support on yet another mobile platform.

A little background on Junos Pulse: It is the industry’s first downloadable client software that provides secure connections across smartphones, notebooks, netbooks as well as non-mobile devices to a broad range of corporate applications. Leveraging the world’s most scalable SSL VPN technology, Junos Pulse ensures a better, simpler experience for users where they may be.  At Mobile World Congress 2010, we announced Junos Pulse support for Microsoft Windows phones and Nokia Symbian OS devices.

When fully released, OS 4 will have integrated, world-class SSL VPN capabilities versus just supporting IPSec VPNs.  All the advantages of an SSL VPN, decreased deployment and support costs while delivering identity-enabled, secure mobile network access, will be available on the iPhone.

At Juniper, we talk a lot about “The New Network” and taxing load new, ubiquitous mobile devices and video place on the network infrastructure carrying them. However, the problem with protecting those networks, and the sensitive information transported on them, is just as paramount. Today’s announcement is the first step in a process that will assure a user’s corporate managed and personal iPhone meets corporate policies prior to network access. This means increased productivity by enabling the secure access of company applications and assets via their iPhones.

We look forward to updating you on the progress of the Junos Pulse iPhone roll-out.  In the meantime, what do you think of today’s news? Let me know.

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Pulse was finally released in the app store but requires the device to be upgraded to 4.1.

See the SSL VPN thread on the topic for details.  Or the official availability announcement above.

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Any ideas on when Pulse for Symbian ^3  will be released - if at all?

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I can connect to my hospital's network w junos but then I can't use any of the software to look at test data or imaging. What good is that? W citrix for Iphone at my other hospital all the software and data are useable on the iPhone. How can I do this w your app?