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

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

Over the past 30 years, IT workers have built and maintained a pretty significant part of human history that really tends to get overlooked and underappreciated. Wifi connections have become commonplace. “Always on” Internet connections are now as much a daily requirement as eating food. And, as we Google over lunch, there’s a huge force working in the background to provide as close to 100% availability as possible.

While each single IT worker is just a speck in the crowd, together, over time, the mass of IT has been very industrious. The Chinese has their Great Wall, and when it comes right down to it, IT’s accomplishments over the past 30 years are just as significant. Maybe you can’t see our IT infrastructure from space (a misnomer about the Great Wall, btw), but it is a substantial part of human history and a huge accomplishment that has taken decades to build.

So…the Great Wall is now just a monument, showing how industrious the Chinese people were. There’s a lot about the Great Wall that we could go into, but this blog post isn’t really about the Great Wall. It’s really about how management of our IT infrastructure is changing. Some stats show that the IT workforce in the U.S. is aging, with no recovery in sight from the younger generations. In short, the youth are not interested in IT anymore. Their interests are elsewhere. If it turns out that there is no recovery for IT, then the IT infrastructure may someday become our monument – our testimony to a most industrious time in human history.

I ask you: is it technology to the rescue once again? And if yes, what is likely to be the technology that can help IT continue to deliver 100% availability in the face of an aging IT workforce? And, then, what will our technology infrastructure look like in 5 years? 10 years?

Our friends over at myITforum.com are hosting a poll about this topic for the next month or so. We’d appreciate it if you would participate in it, giving us your feedback on this topic. Once the poll is over, we’ll circle back here for recap and a follow-up blog post.

The poll: http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=15991&z=120