The simplicity and convenience of VM creation can lead to too much of a good thing, with a proliferation of redundant, seldom used, or orphaned virtual images. New management tools and optimization software now allow data center managers to rein in VM environments and more efficiently map virtualized applications to their physical assets.

FastScale is touting increased performance and scalability in a VMware environment by efficiently building and provisioning virtual machine images without all the redundant data that commonly is associated between virtual machine images.

LeBlanc, Co-Founder and CEO, discusses the details of the company's technology and business strategy.

The problems: low server utilization and labor- and cost-intensive support of applications. Well, it's time to throw another approach into the mix -- one that could carve out a large following if it proves as effective as it is unique.

FastScale helps IT admins manage virtual servers in datacenters and Web farms.

FastScale Composer Suite Nominated for Best Virtualization Management Tools.

FastScale Technology, provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced that it has joined the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program.

FastScale capabilities combined with HP BladeSystem and Virtual Connect will enable customers to reduce the size of application stacks while increasing the speed of bare metal or virtual machine server provisioning.

Addresses the urgent market need for more dynamic software infrastructure by delivering an entirely new kind of software virtualization and provisioning solution.

By utilizing the technologies of FastScale and the capabilities of HP Virtual Connect, customers can deploy enterprise-class applications on their BladeSystem servers in seconds, whether servers are physical or virtual.

Together, customers will have robust and scalable infrastructure that is more affordable, maintainable, uses less power and can adapt dynamically to the needs of the business.

Combining products with HP's BladeSystem provides an ideal solution for enterprise-class computing and server consolidation.

Out of the more than 170 products tested by our Lab Alliance members last year, a dozen stand out as the absolute best. They excel in performance, ease of use and feature functionality.

Virtualization and provisioning software provider FastScale Technology has unveiled an end-to-end server software management application for enterprise class data centers and web farms.

FastScale Composer Suite 2.0 features include increased scalability with improved user interface, configuration management, and expanded reporting.

FastScale Composer Suite received the Network World 2008 "Best of the Tests" award in the Virtualization Management category.

Santa Clara-based automation vendor FastScale has introduced the latest release of its flagship FastScale Composer Suite 2.0, designed to automate the process of building, deploying and managing server-based software environments.

Sometimes, complexity begets complexity even when you try to make things simple.

Virtualization and provisioning software provider FastScale Technology has unveiled an end-to-end server software management application for enterprise class data centers and web farms.

FastScale Technology has unveiled an end-to-end server software management application.

FastScale announced the newest release of its flagship product, FastScale Composer Suite.

The latest release, FastScale Composer Suite 2.0, adds new capabilities and enhancements focused on scalability and configuration management of large, multi-thousand server installations.

The latest release, FastScale Composer Suite 2.0, adds new capabilities and enhancements focused on scalability and configuration management of large, multi-thousand server installations.

Dietary software specialist FastScale has tied a bow around a new version of its flagship software and offered up the package to customers.

FastScale, a company in the Virtual Machine lifecycle market space, has announced version two of their Composer Suite 2.0. If you did not know about FastScale, you should.

This summer, SearchServerVirtualization.com wrote about a large VMware shop that uses an application virtualization and provisioning tool from FastScale Technology Inc. to keep its test lab under control. Now there is news that FastScale will launch version 2.0 of its Composer product...

New release of innovative software virtualization and provisioning technology provides increased scalability and configuration management capabilities for large enterprise deployments.

FastScale Technology, Inc., provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced the newest release of its flagship product, FastScale Composer Suite.

Today the company releases version 2.0 of this suite, introducing support for VMware ESX Server 3.5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The latest release, FastScale Composer Suite 2.0, adds new capabilities and enhancements focused on scalability and configuration management of large, multi-thousand server installations.

FastScale Composer Suite is the first technology of its kind that fully automates the process of building, deploying and managing server software environments.

At the Technosium Global Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California, today, I saw a cool demonstration of FastScale Composer at work in deploying virtual (or physical) servers.

FastScale’s product can shoehorn many more atomic scaled-down virtual machines onto a VMware host license than might normally be otherwise possible.

Just watching FastScale can be a heartening exercise in high-speed virtual machine dieting.

We have high hopes for FastScale's combination of products as it cuts away needless junk from virtual instances, making operating system and application instances lean and unencumbered by unused code.

FastScale's Composer Suite offers the highest degree of control over migrating operating system and application processes into virtual environments. Additionally, its unique porting process does a wonderful job of stuffing many VM instances on a single host server.

If physical and virtual machine (VM) management practices are not put in place from the get-go, future data centers will suffer from virtual machine sprawl. FastScale Technology helps users control their physical and virtual infrastructure.

FastScale demonstrates a new virtualization module of FastScale Composer Suite, the breakthrough technology that fully automates the process of building, managing and deploying server software.

These awards, presented by SearchServerVirtualization.com, recognize outstanding products in the virtualization market.

I came across a rather new product in this market space: FastScale Virtual Manager. The creators of this product must have seen the limitations in VDI without dealing with the provisioning ordeal: FastScale Virtual Manager can automatically build and streamline server software environments on demand and provision them to virtual machines in seconds – without manual effort of any kind.

Rather than virtualize a whole software stack, FastScale Composer Suite builds a stack from the actual bits of software used by applications and puts it in a container; if an application doesn\'t use a DLL or EXE, it doesn\'t go into the container. Now, Composer Suite is being extended to put VMware ESX Server virtual machines inside these containers, creating what could be though of as a virtualized virtual machine.

Fastscale has updated the user interface of its flagship product and, more importantly, added a new package for managing VMware virtual servers.

FastScale has developed a virtualization provisioning package that cuts down the size of virtualized guest operating systems and applications by as much as 99%.

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 provision them to virtual machines in seconds – without manual effort of any kind.

With the virtualization community still beaming from ear to ear over the VMware IPO and XenSource acquisition, now seems like a GREAT time for any company to surface with a virtualization application play.

FastScale Composer builds a stack from the actual bits of software used by applications; if an application does not use a library or application, it does not go into the DAB.

Fastscale plans to show off a module for its Composer Suite to automate deployment of physical and virtualized servers.

Back in April, a startup company called FastScale Technology came out of stealth mode with a different twist on the virtualization game.

FastScale builds a stack from the actual bits of software used by applications.

FastScale Technology released the newest version of its flagship product, FastScale Composer Suite. The new release builds on the company’s adaptive computing infrastructure with a range of features that help system administrators manage very large numbers of machines and software environments throughout the lifecycle.

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.

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.

FastScale's new product, FastScale Virtual Manager, applies the same provisioning and dynamic sizing principle to virtual environments. One customer says FastScale's dynamic sizing capability is unique. He's also impressed with the startup's ability to scrunch server images. He says he's seen a 3- to 4-Gbyte Linux installation shrink down to 30 or 40 Mbytes with FastScale.

FastScale is adding a new product, called FastScale Virtual Manager. This extension to Composer Suite is used to deploy virtual machines based on VMware ESX Server hypervisor as well as the software that companies want to plunk inside these VMs. The tool can also dynamically size virtual machine disk images, so the exact amount of disk space is taken up by the running applications and not a byte more.

Like FastScale Composer Suite, Virtual Manager is all about being trim and efficient. It's designed to fit three times as many virtual machines per physical server without degrading performance and boot more than 40 virtual machines in less time than a single traditional environment.

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.

With FastScale Composer, software environments average 99% smaller than traditional software images, are built on-demand and are deployed to bare-metal servers – from start to finish in less than one minute.

FastScale Technology, Inc.released a new version of its flagship product, FastScale Composer Suite, which automates building, deploying, and managing server software.

FastScale announced the introduction of their Virtual Manager product which is designed to enable IT organizations to automatically build and streamline server software environments on-demand and provision them to virtual machines in seconds.

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.

At a leading independent software vendor, the IT department now uses application virtualization and provisioning software from FastScale Technology, Inc. to minimize the size of the virtual machines used in its engineering department.

Software environments can be streamlined and built automatically, on demand and then provisioned in seconds — all without the need to build and manage golden images.

Virtual Manager supports the full line of VMware infrastructure products including VMware ESX Server, VMware Server and VMware Workstation.

Provision to virtual or physical machines on the fly for optimal performance and load balancing.

Fastscale stands as one of the more unique virtualization-type companies out there. It relies on a repository of OSes, applications, libraries, configuration files and drivers to send out lightweight software bundles to servers.

This IT department uses application virtualization and provisioning software from FastScale Technology Inc. to minimize the size of the virtual machines. This shop runs hundreds of VMware Inc. ESX Server, and hundreds more -- possibly thousands --of VMs.

Organizations using virtual machine software and management software for virtualized environments with the goal of application agility and consolidation would be well advised to become familiar with this technology.

VMware and Fastscale are making highly optimized and streamlined music together. On Friday, VMware users will be able to use the Fastscale Composer Suite to dynamically manage and design virtualized environments.

FastScale is one of the youngest startup in virtualization market: launched in April 2007 the company proposes an innovative approach to application virtualization.

FastScale Technology announced the introduction of the FastScale Virtual Manager, the latest addition to the company’s flagship product.

Data center software provider FastScale Technology (fastscale.com) announced on Monday that it has launched the newest version of its flagship product, FastScale Composer Suite.

This new release builds on the company’s breakthrough adaptive computing infrastructure with a range of features that help system administrators manage very large numbers of machines and software environments throughout the lifecycle.

FastScale Composer Suite fully automates the process of building, deploying and managing server software environments.

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.

Latest release of innovative software virtualization and provisioning technology provides new features for scalability and usability in large enterprise deployments.

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.

FastScale Composer Suite is the only software management solution that fully eliminates the golden image and the time-consuming process of building and managing it.

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.

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.

With the demands of deploying both physical and virtual servers, administration is more complex than ever. FastScale Virtual Manager™ was designed precisely to eliminate this problem.

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.

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.

FastScale Composer Suite fully automates the process of building, deploying and managing server software environments. This new release builds on the company’s breakthrough adaptive computing infrastructure.

Latest release of innovative software virtualization and provisioning technology provides new features for scalability and usability in large enterprise deployments.

This new release builds on the company’s adaptive computing infrastructure with a range of features that help system administrators manage very large numbers of machines and software environments throughout the lifecycle.

FastScale Composer Suite fully automates the process of building, deploying and managing server software environments.

Ease of use was a primary design consideration of FastScale Composer from the very beginning, and system administrators benefit from the only solution available that completely automates the labor-intensive, error-prone task of building and streamlining server software environments.

FastScale™ Technology will showcase virtualization enhancements to its dynamic software infrastructure solution, FastScale Composer™ Suite, at VMworld 2007.

New FastScale Virtualization Product to Be Demonstrated in Booth 1301; FastScale Technology to Be Used in VMworld Labs for Rapid Provisioning of VMware ESX Server, the Foundation of VMware Infrastructure.

FastScale's technology is being used for rapid deployment of VMware ESX Server in the VMworld Labs, hands-on training sessions that run throughout the conference.

For organizations managing servers in the thousands, IT teams are buckling under the weight of sprawling infrastructure. Whether measured in management cost, power, cooling, floor space or just about any other metric, infrastructure is exceeding the practical limits of manageability. FastScale CEO Lynn LeBlanc discusses new-generation solutions.

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—all without the need to build and manager golden images.

FastScale Technology, Inc. will demonstrate FastScale Composer Suite in Booth 521 at NGDC. Attendees will see how FastScale Composer’s fully automatic technology delivers a 99% smaller server software footprint, eliminates the need for golden images, and provisions to bare metal in under one minute.

FastScale will demonstrate how FastScale Composer Suite automates the labor-intensive processes inherent in building and managing server software, and attendees will be able to view a live system that automatically builds and provisions highly streamlined software environments in only seconds.

This proliferation of OS images in virtualized environments is so common as to have earned its own pejorative moniker: server sprawl. Yet, several companies have developed creative solutions to prevent sprawl before it takes hold.

Established players, start-ups develop automation technologies designed to take the 'man' out of manual processes in today's enterprise data centers.

This report picks up where 'V for virtualization' left off, venturing beyond pure x86 server virtualization into even newer and more speculative markets. (Subscription Required)

Dynamic Software Infrastructure Provider to Showcase Recently Launched Product for IT Professional Conference.

At this event, FastScale will demonstrate how its latest technology, FastScale Composer Suite, automates the labor-intensive processes inherent in building, managing and provisioning server software in physical as well as virtual server environments.

FastScale will demonstrate the company’s recently announced software virtualization and provisioning technology, FastScale Composer™ Suite, in booth 108.

Slimmer operating-system images have benefits.

FastScale Technology was founded in January 2006 "to address the urgent market need for more dynamic software infrastructure in large Web farms and data centers." Reprinted with permission from Telecom Trends.

FastScale Technology was founded in January 2006 \"to address the urgent market need for more dynamic software infrastructure in large Web farms and data centers.\" Reprinted with permission from Telecom Trends.

Sometimes, complexity begets complexity even when you try to make things simple.

FastScale comes to market at a time when analysts predict virtual server sprawl will create a submarket for new software providers.

Fastscale, which had been operating in stealth mode till earlier this month, is now disclosing more details about it’s technology that potentially will have big impact on the speed and cost at which servers are deployed at datacenters.

Oh, God, let it be true, considering the norm in server utilization is a mere 5%-10% with 70% of IT budgets dedicated to fussing over the applications that run on them.

"CIOs Weigh In: Bloated & Fragile Software, What to do ?"

The ideas behind FastScale Composer, as the company's product is called, are so simple that once you hear it, you will think, "That was obvious." But like many obvious ideas, no one has thought of them yet, and it took a lot of pain and a new way of thinking outside of the box to come up with the ideas embodied in the product.

The solutions provider session will feature CIOs from top Silicon Valley companies discussing their experiences in managing the exploding complexity of IT environments

FastScale Technology, Inc. has come out of stealth mode with guns-a-blazing as it introduces its software virtualization and provisioning solution for datacenters - FastScale Composer Suite.

FastScale Composer addresses the root cause of server room strife, which it believes is software complexity

Software virtualization and provisioning provider FastScale has emerged from stealth mode with its Composer Suite offering, which it says can reduce the size of software environments by an average of 99%.

VSM speaks with Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale Technology, a new company emerging in the world of software virtualization and provisioning.

FastScale Technology Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., this week will release clever software that automatically creates dynamic application bundles, or DABs, which combine an application with only those parts of an operating system it needs to run.

FastScale Technology reckons it has come up with a new way to combat server sprawl and reduce demands on hardware by up to 99 percent.

FastScale Technology has come gushing out of stealth mode with its Composer Suite software. The code promises to make installing applications across hundreds or even thousands of servers a real pleasure instead of a tremendous pain.

Enter startup FastScale Technology. Launched today, FastScale makes software to manage virtual servers in datacenters and Web farms, ideally to curb the growing virtual machine sprawl conundrum.

FastScale, a Sunnyvale, Calif. startup promising "breakthrough innovations for scalable web farms and data centers," has raised $6.5 million in first-round venture capital funding from ATA, Leapfrog and Hunt Ventures, according to VentureBeat.

FastScale Technology Inc has raised $6.5m in series A funding. The company is currently operating in stealth mode but said it will reveal on April 16 what it described as breakthrough innovations for scalable web farms and data centers.

Sunnyvale-based FastScale said the round was led by Redwood City-based ATA Ventures.

FastScale Technology, a Sunnyvale, Ca. startup that wants to sell software that helps companies manage their data and use fewer servers, said it has raised $6.5 million in a first round of funding from ATA, Leapfrog and Hunt Ventures.

FastScale(TM) Technology, Inc., today announced that it has secured Series A funding of $6.5 million led by ATA Ventures and joined by Leapfrog Ventures and Hunt Ventures.

Sunnyvale-based FastScale Technology has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning.

FastScale Technology has raised $6.5M in Series A led by ATA Ventures with Leapfrog Ventures and Hunt Ventures.

FastScale Technology has raised $6.5M in Series A led by ATA Ventures with Leapfrog Ventures and Hunt Ventures.