AVG CloudCare Expands Cloud-based Email Security for SMB Partners

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Joe Panettieri.

AVG CloudCare, an antivirus and security management console for SMBs, continues to expand its portfolio of services for VARs and MSPs. The latest offering features a commercial edition of AVG Remote IT and AVG Email Security Services. AVG CloudCare is the free cloud-based administration platform with "pay-as-you-go" services for channel partners and their end customers. More than 1,000 partners use the platform, which launched in October 2012.

In some ways, the AVG strategy resembles that of GFI Software, which develops the GFI Max cloud portfolio for MSPs. Admittedly, the market for cloud-based security services is saturated with rival offerings. But AVG has been busy extending and expanding its own suite of cloud services for partners. The AVG suite now supports:…

• The commercial release of AVG Remote IT service, previously available in beta. It allows SMBs and reseller partners to remotely access and deploy services, and trouble-shoot issues on client devices.
• AVG Email Security Services includes AntiSpam, email archiving ad encryption technologies. Sources say the Email Security Services are white labeled from a trusted third-party that has deep experience in the cloud market…

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