Carmel Ventures

Panasonic Computer Product Solutions will offer Red Bend Mobile Software Management (MSM) service which will be available to customers for Android-powered Toughpad tablets. This will give Panasonic, and enterprise customers electing to use these service capacities to remotely manage their Toughpad devices over the air. Android-powered Toughpad tablets include the security core in the Marvell ARM-based CPU, which, when combined with Red Bend's software management service, creates a mobile computing platform. Protected areas of the flash memory that hold the operating system kernel and customer applications are held in a secure zone by the Marvell security processor. Only authorised users of the Red Bend management software can access firmware and applications within the secure zone. Red Bend's MSM service for the Android-powered Panasonic Toughpad range will include vRapid Mobile for Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA) updating, vDirect Mobile for Device Management and Application Management, and the Red Bend Software Management Center. From October, the Red Bend solution on the Panasonic Android-powered Toughpad tablets will use the advanced OMA DM software management standard, SCOMO (Software Component Management Object). The Red Bend MSM, which performs software management over mobile connections including 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi, is location- and network-aware and enables software updates. In addition, enterprises can control when and how updates are performed, and can deliver updates over Wi-Fi or prevent updates when roaming. The software update packages are assembled to each device based on the software already installed on the device, ensuring that only the minimal required updates are included. Red Bend's Failsafe feature guarantees the update to complete in the event of a disruption. With the Red Bend MSM , each of the Toughpad applications can be managed and updated one at a time, or in combination, as the enterprise chooses. The enterprise can also deploy different application packs based on the unique profile of the end user, such as workgroup. In addition, the Red Bend manages dependencies between applications and firmware, ensuring each end user gets the correct software package to support its enterprise applications. Enterprises can also ensure that their own applications are protected so that the user cannot uninstall them. Panasonic will also offer its Toughpad enterprise customers access to a Toughpad Application Store, a choice of software to configure Toughpad hardware settings and technical professional services to assist with any custom application development and deployment. Red Bend and Panasonic will be showing the Panasonic Toughpad FZ-A1 running the Red Bend MSM service at Mobile World Congress.