If there were an award for Supersleuth Marketing Team of the year, STEALTHbits' would be on the short list. We've crept around corridors and hid out in conference rooms to bring you the latest buzz on groundbreaking products that'll be out soon. Earlier this year, we brought you a first look at StealthINTERCEPT, a game-changing real-time Active Directory solution. Now, we've cornered Dave Bullas, Product Manager for Active Directory, and convinced him to answer just a few questions about the latest thing to be coming through STEALTHbits' doors in the near future.

Daria: We saw "StealthMAINTAIN for Active Directory" written on a whiteboard in Conference Room B the other day. What can you tell us about it?

Dave: Absolutely nothing. It's classified, eh?

Daria: But the blogosphere wants to know! Is it a new product?

Dave: I can't give you a lot of details, but if you think about the name, StealthMAINTAIN, maybe it'll become a little clearer.

Daria: Maintain – like maintenance? Maintenance and clean-up?

Dave: Exactly – this product will be an extension to our existing SMP for Active Directory solution, and will allow users to perform remediation and provide them with insight into AD groups, users, and computers.

Daria: How is that different from what we have today?

Dave: It will give admins information from across their environments, allowing them to make decisions about changes much quicker. Since AD is a critical part of the File System, Exchange, SharePoint, and more, this solution will really provide visibility beyond what they can currently see, like effective rights and circular nesting across various data repositories.

Daria: Sounds cool!

Dave: We think so. But I have to head to meeting now.

Daria: But we have more questions!

Dave: This conversation never happened.

GLEN ROCK, NJ (07/15/09) - STEALTHbits Technologies' software solution, SMP for Public Folders, makes short work of preparing organizations of any size for their Public Folder to SharePoint migration. STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc., an innovative leader in the Microsoft infrastructure and application management space, is changing the way organizations tackle this daunting task through programmatic workflow involving the assessment, analysis, and remediation of Public Folders, all within a single product.

Over the past decade, many organizations have allowed their Public Folder environments to grow out of control, migrating unneeded, out-of-date content from one version of Exchange to the next. While cheap disk space proved to be an effective short term solution for minimizing Public Folder clean-up efforts, the long term costs of hurling hardware at a software problem now far outweigh the benefits realized by delaying the inevitable.

In 2006, Microsoft announced they would be "de-emphasizing" Public Folders in future versions of Exchange, causing widespread panic among Exchange Administrators, Compliance Auditors, and CIO's alike, as cleaning up this massive repository of unchartered data would surely present an overwhelming burden on IT resources. While Microsoft has since extended their deadline for supporting Public Folders, the need to understand what is in the environment, who actually owns the content, and what can be done with each and every Public Folder remains a ticking time bomb for any organization still supporting Public Folders.

STEALTHbits has incorporated cutting-edge techniques into their offering to hurdle some of the most difficult challenges in assessing and analyzing Public Folder data, such as identifying the "Most Probable Owner" of a Public Folder and soliciting end-user feedback as part of the decision-making process through integrated SendMail and Survey Modules. STEALTHbits' Public Folder Action Module rounds out the workflow with a myriad of options for remediating Public Folder content in just a few clicks.

STEALTHbits' customers have realized incredible results in only days and weeks (compared to months and years) by using over 30 out-of-the-box reports specifically designed to dissect the Public Folder environment into manageable data subsets, as well as the native ability to create customized data collection routines, reports, and views answering the toughest business questions. One large financial customer was able to retire over 5,000 folders and reclaim over 50GB of storage within 3 weeks of implementing the solution, in addition to recertifying Public Folder permissions for all 300,000+ folders.

STEALTHbits offers project, subscription, and perpetual based licensing models for SMP for Public Folders or can be purchased as an integrated component of STEALTHbits' SMP for Exchange Solution Suite.

For additional information and free trial opportunities for SMP for Public Folders and the StealthAUDIT Management Platform, visit www.stealthbits.com.

ABOUT STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc.
STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. is an innovative technology leader in the Microsoft infrastructure and application management space.

Unlike traditional frameworks that are a mile wide and an inch deep, STEALTHbits has taken a unique approach. Built upon a common platform and shared services, the StealthAUDIT Management Platform (SMP) is as broad as it is deep across multiple areas of OS and application Management, Auditing, Reporting, Compliance, and Remediation. With concentrated focus around Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, BlackBerry, and Windows Systems, STEALTHbits provides organizations of all sizes the visibility needed to manage systems and applications effectively and efficiently through a single interface, a common platform, and light-weight architecture.

Editorial Contact
Adam Laub
STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc.
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