Servers have proliferated at a frenzied pace over the past few years. Large Web companies like Google and Yahoo! have hundreds of thousands of servers around the globe, financial services firms are deploying servers by the truckload and small companies managing hundreds and thousands of servers are now commonplace.

The complexity of managing this mega server sprawl is unimaginable. Building golden images remains a largely manual effort taking days to weeks. Security patches and updates may be required weekly or even more frequently. Multiple versions of applications and operating systems are managed concurrently. A long list of hardware platforms and configurations make troubleshooting a nightmare. And there’s endless testing, provisioning and re-provisioning.

The cost of power and cooling is a compounding drain on resources. For every dollar spent on hardware, 50 cents is spent on energy, with that price tag expected to rise over 50% in the next three years.

IT teams are exploring every possible avenue for opportunities to boost utilization of the sprawling infrastructure – typically only in the 10% to 20% range. Virtual machine solutions are a strong fit for many consolidation initiatives. But, for large-scale, transaction-intensive workloads, the performance degradation, cost and manageability are significant barriers to deployment

Consolidation in scalable data centers requires a streamlined, automated, dynamic approach to building, managing and deploying server software that attacks the core problem leading to mass server proliferation – software complexity.

With FastScale Composer™ Suite, consolidating workloads and server infrastructure is easier than you ever imagined.

Your entire server infrastructure, whether physical or virtual, becomes a dynamic pool of compute resources, able to run any application at any time. Software environments are resident on servers only for the duration of the job in process. Once complete, the server is available for automatic provisioning of a new environment – in only seconds!

Today, you might spend weeks building and debugging a golden image for a new application. With FastScale Composer, this manual, error-prone process is entirely eliminated. Automatically, an Application Blueprint™ is created that identifies all the appropriate operating system components, device drivers, updates, patches and configuration files – in seconds, at run time.

Using the Application Blueprint, FastScale Composer creates a Dynamic Application Bundle™ (DAB™), a very compact software environment with only the necessary building blocks. It averages 95% smaller than a traditional software stack, and it's built automatically – in seconds, at run time. .

FastScale DABs are so compact that provisioning to bare metal or virtual servers takes seconds, not an hour or more. And the DAB is non-persistent, so when your job is complete, the server is available for you to provision a new environment – all in seconds.

FastScale Composer Suite is an entirely new approach to building, managing and deploying server software and delivers the most adaptive and scalable infrastructure available – at any price.

Enabling the efficient use of compute infrastructure by attacking software complexity is exactly why FastScale Composer Suite was developed. It's an elegant, scalable solution for managing even the most robust environments and dynamic computing needs.

• Provision or re-purpose servers in seconds
• Build software environments automatically
• Streamline software stacks 95%
• Increase server utilization to over 90%
• Increase administrator productivity by 70%
• Eliminate physical and virtual server sprawl

How do we do it? Through groundbreaking innovations, years in the making. Contact us to learn how FastScale Composer Suite may be the perfect answer for your dynamic IT environment.

FastScale Composer — it's simply elegant.