Santa Clara, Calif., March 31, 2008 – FastScale® Technology, Inc, provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced its participation in the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo taking place April 6-10, 2008 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. FastScale will demonstrate the latest enhancements to its flagship products, FastScale Composer™ Suite and FastScale Virtual Manager, in booth 509.

FastScale's breakthrough innovations address the urgent market need for more adaptive software infrastructure in large IT organizations by delivering an entirely new kind of software virtualization and provisioning solution. FastScale Composer Suite is the only solution that delivers a completely automated and dynamic management and deployment platform for physical, virtual and hybrid deployments. With compact software environments built ondemand, automatic patch and configuration management, and lightweight provisioning in only seconds, the entire server infrastructure, both physical and virtual, becomes a dynamic pool of resources able to adapt to constantly changing demands - on the fly.

"Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is a great opportunity to highlight advancements with FastScale Composer Suite and Virtual Manager and show first-hand how these technologies help IT organizations manage their increasingly complex physical, virtual, and hybrid environments," said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale Technology. "Our core competency is the dynamic creation and deployment of lightweight server software environments - in seconds. No one else can make this claim. At ITxpo, attendees will have a chance to see this impressive technology running live."

One of the largest technology conferences organized by an analyst firm, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo explores hot topics and technologies within six mega-trends which are critical to how business and technology will emerge. Gartner is the gold standard in trend analysis and this conference will incorporate analyst predictions for the industry in the upcoming three to five years. Expected to be one of the largest turnouts yet, the conference will have over 100 Gartner analysts and thousands of industry followers in attendance. For more information about Gartner Symposium/ITxpo visit: http://www.gartner.com/it/sym/2008/spg10/spg10.jsp

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 95%, 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.

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.