BOSTON, April 20, 2010 -- FullArmor, a leader in enterprise policy management, today announced that it has released for community technology preview a beta version of the next version of PolicyPortal built on Windows Azure, Microsoft’s platform for building and deploying cloud based applications. This solution enables organizations to monitor unmanaged endpoint devices for compliance with desired configuration baselines from Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and automatically remediate unauthorized changes without administrator intervention. In addition, PolicyPortal extends Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 by creating incidents to the console when configuration drift occurs on disconnected and roaming endpoints.
“Disconnected, roaming endpoints are typically unmanaged, and most susceptible to drifting out of compliance with corporate and regulatory standards. The next release of PolicyPortal is designed to help customers manage compliance for all their endpoints in a centralized, consistent and robust fashion,” said Danny Kim, chief technology officer of FullArmor. “Delivered as a cloud service, PolicyPortal makes it easy to manage devices disconnected from the network, while the integration with Microsoft management tools enables IT departments to monitor, enforce and report on endpoint compliance from a single, familiar user interface.”
To automate policy enforcement, PolicyPortal provides optional auto-remediate functionality that resets configuration settings to their desired state without human intervention if they drift out of compliance. Through the integration with the System Center Service Manager, all relevant data about changes to endpoint configurations is logged by PolicyPortal and delivered to the System Center data store, including auto-remediate actions taken to bring devices back into compliance.
“Microsoft is working with partners to deliver a range of cloud solutions today, and will provide customers the management tools to bridge the gap between tradition datacenter and external cloud environments,” said Clare Henry, director of product marketing, Management and Services Division at Microsoft Corp. “FullArmor’s endpoint compliance solution is an innovative example of our partner ecosystem extending Microsoft’s on-premises and cloud technologies so that mutual customers can reduce costs, automate IT processes and respond to business needs faster.”
About FullArmor
FullArmor Corporation has evolved into a software + services company providing enterprise system and endpoint management on the various Windows platforms. FullArmor delivers innovative, leading-edge solutions that extend the native capabilities of Microsoft's virtualization technologies (Hyper-V, App-V, and MED-V), cloud technologies (Windows Azure and .NET Services) and security technologies (Group Policy and Federated Identity). More than 5 million users and 1,500 organizations worldwide rely on technology developed by FullArmor. For more information visit us on the web at www.fullarmor.com or call 800.653.1783.
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