Microsoft’s Windows Intune Announcement Validates Need for Cloud-Based Systems Management in the SMB Marketplace.

Waltham, MA April 28, 2010, only days after Microsoft announced the beta for their new cloud-based systems management solution, Intune, it was full. Viewfinity (www.viewfinity.com), a Waltham, MA based software vendor that has been providing cloud-based systems management to its customers for nearly a year, announced today a special offer to those organizations that were not among the first 1000 to participate in the Windows Intune beta program.

Viewfinity invites those interested in Intune to use its cloud-based systems management capabilities via a one year 25% discounted subscription.

To register for this offer and to get started using systems management via the cloud please visit: Viewfinity Systems Management Signup

“We applaud Microsoft’s announcement to offer systems management capabilities via the cloud for SMB companies,” said Leonid Shtilman, CEO of Viewfinity. “Viewfinity has been shipping its cloud-based systems management suite for nearly a year and already has an install base reaching thousands of computers. We have every confidence that Windows Intune will provide to small organizations what our product offers today to mid-market and corporate-level enterprises.”

Viewfinity is a comprehensive solution for midsize companies who need to support hundreds to thousands of Windows-based desktops as well as Windows Servers. Our suites include:

Systems Management: Centralized and silent software deployment, asset inventory, remote desktop, power management and unique IT support features, including activity recording and rollback/undo of user personality components.

Privilege Management: Flexible blocking/whitelisting, privilege elevation, automated policy management and auditing, all through granular regulation of administrator rights.

User Migration: Centralized, domain-based, multi-user migration management capabilities for XP or Vista to Windows 7.

About Viewfinity
Viewfinity is the innovator of systems and privilege management via cloud-computing, allowing IT professionals to focus on managing systems and not the platform’s infrastructure. With the cloud model, IT can be up and running quickly to provide management, support and control for desktops, servers and laptops. This makes it extremely cost effective and easy for IT to support local as well as mobile workers.

Viewfinity uses virtualization technology as the foundation to simplify and automate deployment and management of applications, licenses and assets. Viewfinity also complements traditional systems management by offering compliance adherence to flexibly manage privileges for locked down computers. Viewfinity’s cloud approach delivers immediate and long-term value, scales with business need, and eliminates the equipment, training, and substantially higher costs of on-premise implementations. Based in Waltham, MA, information on Viewfinity systems management solutions can be found at www.viewfinity.com.