SUNNYVALE, Calif.----FastScaleTM Technology, Inc., a provider of
next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions for
enterprise data centers and Web farms, today announced the introduction
of the FastScale Virtual Manager™, the latest
addition to the company’s flagship product,
FastScale Composer™ Suite. Developed to extend
the benefits of FastScale Composer Suite to virtualized environments,
Virtual Manager supports the full line of VMware infrastructure products
including VMware ESX Server, VMware Server and VMware Workstation. The
combination of Virtual Manager and FastScale Composer Suite deliver a
complete, dynamic and highly adaptive software solution for managing
large-scale server infrastructure, both virtual and physical.
The new FastScale Virtual Manager is the only solution available that
enables IT organizations to automatically build and streamline server
software environments on-demand and provisions them to virtual machines
in seconds – without manual effort of any
kind. On average, server software environments are 99% smaller than
traditional images, and they are built in only seconds. Because of the
small memory footprint of the FastScale software environments deployed,
benchmark tests of FastScale Virtual Manager have shown that 3X the
number of virtual machines can run on a given physical machine without
degrading performance. Moreover, scalability is dramatically enhanced
with 40 FastScale virtual machines able to boot in less time than a
single environment without Virtual Manager. These enhancements to
virtual machine implementations deliver strong value to IT teams looking
to further increase infrastructure utilization and flexibility.
“Virtual machine solutions have enabled us to
significantly decrease data center costs by consolidating underutilized
hardware. However, the growing use of VMs is now resulting in virtual
server sprawl,” said Sunny Azadeh, senior vice
president of information technology at Agile Software. “FastScale
Virtual Manager addresses this problem by offering a seamless approach
to managing both physical and virtual resources, and it’s
the only solution that automatically streamlines the application
environment being deployed to those servers. FastScale technology
provides great cost savings potential.”
Additionally, FastScale Virtual Manager delivers maximum hardware
utilization by dynamically sizing a virtual machine disk image VMDK
and its container to meet the precise requirements of the application
environment. Not only is the software environment highly streamlined,
but the VMDK and allocated resources are as well –
all automatically, on-the-fly. Also automatic is the inclusion and
configuration of the appropriate VMware tools in the VMDK. No other
solution delivers the degree of automation and efficiency in managing
virtual machine infrastructure that is available in the new Virtual
Manager for FastScale Composer Suite.
FastScale Virtual Manager enables users to:
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Build & streamline software stacks automatically –
to dramatically reduce system administration time, decrease manual
errors and deliver more output from same physical resources.
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Create VMDKs with dynamically sized containers –
for maximum use of hardware resources.
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Provision to virtual or physical machines on-the-fly –
for optimal performance and load balancing.
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Run 3X+ more VMs per physical server without degrading
performance – to enable increased
server consolidation.
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Boot 40+ FastScale VMs in less time than a single traditional
environment – for scalable,
enterprise-class performance in a virtual machine infrastructure.
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Build and deploy virtual machines centrally –
to fully eliminate virtual sprawl.
“Now that more enterprises are virtualizing
their data center environments, systems administration and management is
more complex than ever,” said Lynn LeBlanc,
CEO of FastScale. “We are focused on
eliminating the complexity through highly innovative technologies that
address not only how server software is deployed in virtual
environments, but also how it is built in the first place. No one else
has tackled this problem.”
Pricing and Availability
FastScale Virtual Manager is available on August 31, 2007. Pricing
starts at $20,000. For more information, contact sales at fastscale.com
or visit www.fastscale.com.
About FastScale Composer™ Suite
FastScale Composer Suite is an entirely new approach to managing
software environments. Only with FastScale Composer is server software
automatically streamlined by an average of 99%, built on-demand and then
provisioned in seconds – eliminating the
manually intensive process of building and managing golden images.
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 reduces systems administration by 75% or more and
enables overall server utilization to above 90%.
About FastScale Technology
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 Sunnyvale, 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.
FastScale Composer™ Suite
