AVG CloudCare

The AVG Technologies company announced in the fall of 2012 official start of the new service under the name AVG CloudCare. This service is intended to help resseler of IT products and services and also providers of external IT service with security for the corporate clients from among the small organizations.

In ensuring IT security in the organizations of small scale there is a number of noticeable problems. In particular, such organizations often have no sufficient means to construct a security system really necessary for them. Besides, IT solutions, in practice capable to ensure such safety, are usually created counting upon big customers, but not small enterprises. The AVG company, the famous producer of inexpensive anti-virus solutions decided to cover this gap.

The AVG CloudCare service offers the comfortable free platform of administration for the IT resellers working at maintenance of the clients and also for providers of IT services. Using this easy to use cloud platform the IT specialists external in relation to the serviced client can manage far off work of the protective products AVG installed on computers in network of the client.

Already now the AVG CloudCare web interface can be used for management of such applications as AVG AntiVirus and AVG Content Filtering. In the near future developers promise to add support of other services, including backup. One more advantage of AVG CloudCare technology is that IT resseler it is not obliged to estimate in advance number of the users covered by management any more to make advance payment for the platform of remote control. Instead in AVG CloudCare the mechanism for accounting of the actual volume of the consumed services is implemented. Besides, separate components can be included and disconnected on demand at any time.

The producer highlights such advantages of the AVG CloudCare system as remote installation and activation of agents of management without expensive departures to the client. Licensing of agents of management and the platform of management does not require input of special keys that considerably facilitates administration of accounts of each client. Updating of the systems of protection and management of them is performed in automatically, in real time. The system of automatic notifications and warnings helps to keep track sensitively of needs of the client, and flexible configuration of the reporting allows to demonstrate what benefit is brought by IT maintenance to the client. At last, the AVG company provides a trial subscription of AVG CloudCare for 30 days without restriction in functions for making decision on signing of the contract.

With release of AVG CloudCare service the ecosystem of the small organizations and their IT service receives one more free tool which provides not only remote control of anti-virus and protective products, but also full-fledged remote control with a possibility of remote troubleshooting is the AVG Remote IT add-on module available to all users of AVG CloudCare. Let's remind, the platform is provided free of charge, and the payment from the IT reseller or firm on IT maintenance is levied on actually consumed volume of services.