Las Vegas (VMworld 2008 booth #565), September 15, 2008 – FastScale® Technology, Inc., provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced the release of FastScale Composer™ Suite Limited Edition, a 60-day evaluation bundle of its breakthrough technology, FastScale Composer Suite.  The Limited Edition bundle includes FastScale Virtual Manager™, Windows Server® 2003, and a pre-populated software component repository, and is based on a new release of FastScale Composer Suite with a streamlined Web user interface for easier software stack configuration and more robust help functions for new users.

“FastScale Composer Suite Limited Edition is a great way for us to introduce the powerful server software management capabilities of FastScale,” said Ty Schwab, CEO, Blackhawk Technology Consulting. “Most of our customers are dealing with tremendous complexity as they expand their virtualization deployments.  Performance, virtual machine sprawl, and manageability are all huge challenges, particularly for large IT shops.  FastScale Composer Suite with Virtual Manager addresses these issues head on.”

FastScale Composer Suite with Virtual Manager offers the only technology on the market today to fully automate the process of building, managing and deploying server software environments, whether the infrastructure is physical, virtual or both. Designed specifically to eliminate the labor-intensive process of building and managing server software stacks throughout the lifecycle, FastScale software environments average 95% smaller than traditional golden images, are built on-demand and deployed in seconds to minutes. Because FastScale software stacks are so compact and are built automatically at provisioning time, the entire server infrastructure is a dynamic pool of virtual and physical compute resources, able to run any application at any time. The lightweight FastScale software environments dramatically decrease memory requirements, support stateless server configurations, and increase virtual server density by 300% or more.

“When we talk to IT managers about the capabilities of FastScale, we often hear that our technology sounds too good to be true,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale. “The FastScale Composer Suite Limited Edition bundle is a great way to experience first hand how our technology can eliminate a long list of issues that are the consequence of bloated server software.  The end result is a fully automated, standards-based approach to managing both physical and virtual servers plus dramatic improvements in infrastructure utilization, performance and virtual machine density.” 

The free FastScale Composer Suite Limited Edition bundle ships as a virtual appliance for easy installation on VMware® ESX or ESXi and is available by registering at http://www.fastscale.com/technology/limitededition.shtml

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.