SANTA CLARA, CA -- 02/25/08 --
FastScale® Technology, Inc., provider of
next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions, today
announced that FastScale Composer(TM) Suite has received the Network World
2008 "Best of the Tests" award in the Virtualization Management category.
Network World tested more than 170 products across a very wide range of
technologies to select the "2008 Best of the Tests" winners. Network
World's Lab Alliance and testing editors rigorously evaluate products based
on the critical network functions they address, and awards are based on
those products receiving the highest scores. Only twelve products received
the designation this year, with FastScale Composer Suite being one of two
products topping the list in the Virtualization Management category.
"We have high hopes for FastScale's combination of products as it cuts away
needless junk from virtual instances, making operating system and
application instances lean and unencumbered by unused code," reported
Network World Alliance test members Tom Henderson and Rand Dvorak in the
December 2007 review. "FastScale's product can shoehorn many more atomic
scaled-down virtual machines onto a VMware host license than might normally
be otherwise possible." Additionally, during the testing process,
Henderson comments that while reduction mileage will vary, they found at
least a 3-to-1 reduction in footprint for memory use, coupled with a
discernible decrease in CPU utilization.
The Best of the Tests product winners were published today, February 25,
2008 and can be found at http://www.networkworld.com/bestproducts/2008/.
The results of the "Clear Choice" Virtualization Management test can be
found at
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2007/121707-virtual-management-fast-scale.html.
"A 'Best of the Tests' designation from Network World is strong independent
validation that FastScale Composer Suite stands out in the industry as an
exceptional software virtualization solution that really delivers. When we
brought this innovative technology to market last year, we knew we were
delivering a new class of automation for managing complex,
performance-intensive virtual and physical environments," said Lynn
LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale. "This recognition places FastScale Composer
Suite in an elite group of products that customers can be confident will
deliver both innovation and results -- performance, scalability,
ease-of-use, and most importantly, cost savings."
Earlier this month, FastScale introduced FastScale Composer Suite 2.0 which
adds new capabilities and enhancements focused on scalability and rich
configuration management of large, multi-thousand server installations. For
more information, contact sales@fastscale.com or visit www.fastscale.com.
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About FastScale Composer Suite
FastScale Composer Suite is an entirely new approach to managing software
environments -- from start to finish. Only with FastScale is server
software automatically streamlined by an average of 99%, built on-demand
and then provisioned to bare metal or virtual servers in seconds. Because
FastScale software environments are so compact, the entire server
infrastructure is a dynamic pool of compute resources, able to run any
application at any time. FastScale Composer Suite is an elegant, scalable
solution that delivers three times more virtual servers without degrading
performance, enables overall infrastructure utilization to above 90%,
reduces systems administration by more than 75%, and fully eliminates both
physical and virtual server sprawl.
About FastScale Technology, Inc.
FastScale Technology delivers a new generation of software virtualization
and provisioning solutions for enterprise-class Web farms and data centers.
Through its patent-pending technologies, FastScale enables IT organizations
to build, manage and deploy complex and dynamic software environments with
unparalleled simplicity, flexibility and security while achieving dramatic
lifecycle cost savings and server utilization improvement. Headquartered
in Santa Clara, California, FastScale is a privately held company backed by
leading Venture Capital firms including ATA Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures and
Hunt Ventures. For more information, visit www.fastscale.com.
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