Viewfinity was mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article this week.  Below is an excerpt with a link to the full article.

Though there’s nuances to each product, most of the small companies in this sector are either providing a subscription service with a lower price tag and ability to incorporate mobile workers in the platform, or selling virtual desktop technologies that enable customers to get a better handle on management by storing all their desktops inside the data center.

Here’s a sampling of start-ups and small companies trying to change this sector:

Viewfinity Inc. is selling a subscription service geared towards smaller companies that don’t have the means to buy and run a traditional PC management suite. Since the service runs over the Internet, it easily pulls mobile workers under its umbrella- something that’s difficult from the traditional on-premise vendors to accomplish. Investors include Giza Venture Capital, JK&B Capital and Longworth Venture Partners.

Read the full article: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/07/26/start-ups-look-to-disrupt-stodgy-pc-management-space/

As the feature sets of PC lifecycle management (PCLM) suites have increased, so has the complexity of their software. Organizations that don't allocate enough effort to properly manage the PCLM infrastructure are often unable to provide the desired level of service to their users.

For this and many other reasons, cloud-based solutions are emerging for a variety of systems management functions. Just as some companies are well-suited for cloud-based CRM, some companies are more well-suited than others for cloud-based PCLM. Is your company one of them? Dwain Kinghorn, Partner at SageCreek Partners and member of the Viewfinity Board, addresses this issue in greater detail on ebizQ: http://bit.ly/9acbxS.

You can download Dwain’s complete white paper from Viewfinity here: http://bit.ly/9HPNoh

If you’ve been following the news lately, you are already seeing us making some serious inroads into the industry for Cloud computer.  Today, NetworkWorld adds us to the top 15 companies to watch:

Read it here:

http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2010/ndc3/051010-ndc-cloud-companies.html?page=7

You probably already know (at least you should) that Viewfinity’s Privilege Management application is key to securing your environment.  It provides a comprehensive feature set not included in similar offerings.  Viewfinity’s Privilege Management application allows you to lockdown your company’s computing assets while still allowing end-users to work with the proper rights they need to stay productive.

But, what you may not realize is that enforcement of rules is immediate.  As long as the client computer has access to the Internet, the rules are enforced immediately.  No need to wait for a GPO to update across a large network, or even to force the end-user to interrupt business productivity to reboot the computer or logon and logoff for the GPO to take effect.  Viewfinity’s smart client application handles the immediate enforcement of new rules that you setup just by connecting to the Viewfinity cloud over an Internet connection.

Viewfinity has developed a best-of-breed application to ensure you have complete control over your environment and that your business remains agile and secure.

If this is something you are interested in, take a look through the subsequent pages located here:

http://www.viewfinity.com/Products/PrivilegeManagement/Default.aspx

WALTHAM, Mass.--Viewfinity (www.viewfinity.com), the innovator of systems and privilege management via cloud-computing, was named a finalist in the Seventh Annual MITX Technology Awards today. The MITX Technology Awards recognize emergent and innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements. The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) is the country’s premier Internet business and marketing association.

Viewfinity Cloud-Based Systems and Privilege Management Named as Finalist for the 2010 MITX Technology Awards

At MMS 2010, Microsoft announced it has rebranded the “System Center Online” product to “Windows Intune”.  Microsoft’s intent is to offer Intune as a small business alternative (25 to 500 PCs) to its System Center on-premises product line.

Microsoft’s move into managing computers in the cloud is a great step and one that Viewfinity believes serves to validate the direction of applications to the cloud, as well as our efforts and vision in this area. The public release of Windows Intune is probably about a year off but Viewfinity is already providing cloud-based solutions to customers.   While Windows Intune targets consumers and small business, Viewfinity is built to scale to large deployments. 

The beta for Windows Intune was limited to 1,000 of the first respondents and Microsoft has announced that the beta is now closed.  For those that missed the beta deadline, Viewfinity is extending a special offer to utilize its cloud-based management capabilities through a one year discounted subscription.  So, you can use the full feature-set of Viewfinity, which includes scalability, software deployment, and server management, and then switch to Windows Intune when the public release is available and Windows Intune pricing has been set.

For those thousands of users who fell outside the beta limit, Viewfinity is now offering a 25% product discount for the first year.  All you need to do to participate is to use the following link to sign-up:

https://www.viewfinity.com/signup.aspx?Product=SystemManagement&Source=Intune

Feel free to pass the link along to your peers.

The purpose of this brief survey is to collect information on how enterprise IT organizations use desktop virtualization technologies.
In this context, we define desktop virtualization as some combination of:

• server-hosted desktop virtualization (VDI), client-hosted desktop virtualization or cloud-hosted desktop virtualization;
• OS and application isolation and streaming; and
• user profile management or user virtualization.

The results of this survey will be published in a forthcoming major report, "Desktops as a Service", from The 451 Group.

The survey should take no longer than five minutes to complete.

Participate using the following link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GZMHYDX

A recent survey conducted by Really Simple Systems, the UK's largest hosted CRM vendor, has revealed that small and medium sized enterprises are embracing hosted applications at a faster rate than ever. The annual survey questions SME business owners, directors, sales, marketing and IT managers, on their views of SaaS and the reliability of the products currently available in the market.

Confidence In SaaS Increases By 62% Amongst Small And Medium Businesses

Coincidence or just brilliance must be in the air as three esteemed industry colleagues, Phil Wainewright, Michael Cote, and James Governor, have both decided to clarify definitions on SaaS and Cloud within a few days of each other.  In fact, this couldn’t be more timely as SaaS and Cloud enter into mainstream discussion with next gen CIO’s evaluating their apps strategies.

A Software Insider’s Point of View » Tuesday’s Tip: Understanding The Many Flavors of Cloud Computing and SaaS

Cloud computing services top the list of technologies that are showing up on the radar of or being actively researched by IT organizations, according to an exclusive CIO survey.

The survey, conducted in January, polled 405 IT professionals involved in buying technology products and services and found that 48 percent are looking at cloud options. Business intelligence applications (35 percent), business process management (35 percent), and enterprise data management (32 percent) are also of high interest, along with enterprise architecture (32 percent).

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