Santa Clara, Calif., April 16, 2007 – FastScale™ Technology, Inc., a provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions for data centers and web farms, today announced the general availability of its first product, FastScale ComposerTM Suite. By automating the process of streamlining server software, virtualizing the environment and then provisioning in only seconds, FastScale delivers scalable and dynamic software infrastructure that can increase overall server utilization to more than 90 percent and decrease system administration by 75 percent or more.

Industry reports reveal that over 70 percent of IT budgets are now spent supporting existing applications with 5 - 10 percent server utilization rates being the norm. IT organizations are buckling under the weight of server sprawl. Building and testing enterprise-grade software environments can take weeks or more, and any updates, however small, mean more testing and added cost. The root cause of this costly dilemma is ever-increasing software complexity.

“Current data center automation offerings focus on managing server sprawl symptoms like software deployment,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale. “Only FastScale Composer addresses the root cause of software complexity by fully automating the process of building highly streamlined server software, on the front-end, while dynamically deploying and seamlessly managing the environments on the back-end. Early customer feedback on our unique approach has been incredibly positive with one CIO describing FastScale Composer as ‘the most significant innovation to the concept of a golden image in 20 years.’”

With FastScale Composer, software environments average 99 percent smaller than traditional software images, are built on-demand and reside on servers only for the duration of the job in process. Once complete, the server is available for automatic provisioning of a new software environment in under a minute. Ease of use was a primary design consideration of FastScale Composer. System administrators benefit from flexible rules-based mapping and automatic patch and configuration management. In addition to a highly intuitive user interface, the system can be installed and operational within two hours.

“The entire approach that FastScale uses to build, configure and manage software environments just makes sense,” said Stuart Rohnstock, director of IT for StarVox Communications, Inc., one of FastScale’s beta customers. “With FastScale, the full software environment is built automatically, and provisioning takes only seconds. FastScale Composer enables us easily to provision new machines to handle peak loads as well as providing exceptional support for platform migrations. I have never seen any technology come close to what FastScale delivers.”

Key innovations of FastScale Composer include:

• Application Blueprint™ – While operating systems support hundreds of thousands of applications, any given application only uses a small subset of the operating system. The Application Blueprint automatically identifies the precise operating system components an application requires at execution time, without any manual effort.
  
  
• Dynamic Application Bundle™ – Based on the Application Blueprint, FastScale Composer automatically builds a small, full-featured software environment including only the precise software components required. Averaging only one percent the size of traditional server images, the Dynamic Application Bundle (DABTM) is created ondemand at job execution time, so it always includes the appropriate updates and patches.
  
  
• Lightweight Provisioning – With the DAB’s small footprint, provisioning to bare metal servers takes seconds, as opposed to an hour or more. The application software stack is small enough to run in memory, so diskless configurations are easily supported. When a job is complete, the server is available for provisioning of a new DAB – all in under a minute.

“With the FastScale Composer, a bare metal machine is provisioned with custom configuration in under three minutes, including server power on and self test – not 30 minutes to one hour as with our prior process,” said Hasmukh Ranjan, senior director for IT at Synopsys, Inc., a FastScale beta customer. This greatly reduces the setup time required to dynamically provision hardware for our test and R&D environments, so we can focus on developing our products rather than building and re-building infrastructure.” FastScale Composer is now available. Pricing starts at $30,000. For more information, contact sales@fastscale.com or visit www.fastscale.com.

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.