Santa Clara, Calif., April 23, 2007 – FastScale™ Technology, Inc.,provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced its participation in the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo taking place April 22-26, 2007 in San Francisco. FastScale will host the solutions provider session “CIOs Weigh In: Bloated & Fragile Software. What to Do?” on Tuesday, April 24 from 12-1 p.m. PST in room 3018 and exhibit the company’s recently announced software virtualization and provisioning technology, FastScale Composer™ Suite, in booth 710, both at Moscone West Convention Center.

The solutions provider session will feature CIOs from top Silicon Valley companies discussing their experiences in managing the exploding complexity of IT environments at companies like Yahoo!, Agile, VMware, Informatica, TiVo, Hotwire and more. Attendees will hear also hear about their experience with FastScale’s breakthrough technology recently announced, FastScale Composer Suite.

“IT executives continue to face mounting pressure to reduce costs and increase throughput in the data center,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale. “FastScale Composer is the first product to directly attack the underlying challenge of bloated and complex server software by streamlining server software environments on-demand and deploying them in seconds. At Gartner ITxpo we will show first hand how FastScale Composer automates the labor-intensive processes inherent in building, managing and deploying software in physical as well as virtual server environments.”

“We are all looking forward to participating on the panel and sharing our experiences,” said Al Pappas, Partner at Stratafusion Group and moderator of the roundtable. “I have been impressed with the FastScale technology since I was first introduced to the company in their very early stages. FastScale Composer is a compelling solution to one of the most complex data center problems today-software management.”

For more information about Gartner Symposium/ITxpo visit: http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/spg9/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=1024

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 to bare metal servers 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%.

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.