FastScale Composer Suite was designed specifically to address the management complexity of next generation data centers by delivering an integrated software management platform that enables you to build, manage and deploy server software with unparalleled automation, speed and simplicity. By design, the FastScale architecture supports heterogeneous server environments — physical or virtual, Windows or Linux — all are built, managed and deployed with a single infrastructure.

FastScale Composer Suite enables your data center to respond to constantly changing business requirements, server workloads, and server hardware with a unique approach that dramatically increases agility while significantly reducing day-to-day operating complexity and cost. The result is:

• Provisioning in seconds, no SAN required
• 95% smaller software environments — automatically
• Automatic patch & configuration management
• Easily configurable policies and settings
• Intuitive & flexible administration

With FastScale innovation, bloated operating systems and complex software are no longer an IT constraint. 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. FastScale does the work for you. Your entire server infrastructure is 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 software environment — in only seconds!

FastScale Composer Suite delivers an elegant, scalable solution to managing even the most complex software infrastructure.

Simplicity is key. FastScale Composer Suite stores all your software in a data warehouse, the Software Component Repository. That includes applications, operating systems, patches, configuration files, scripts and drivers — all of it. Using a graphical dashboard, you easily specify versions, configurations, permissions and more. All appropriate files are always available — even after an environment is deployed.

Today, you may spend weeks debugging a golden image. FastScale Composer Suite automatically determines all application dependencies, no manual effort required. Our Application Blueprint™ identifies the precise operating system components an application requires to be fully functional. Operating systems support hundreds of thousands of applications. Any given application uses a small subset of the total. We identify these requirements automatically — in seconds.

Using the Application Blueprint, FastScale Composer Suite builds a small, full-featured software environment with only the precise software components required — a Dynamic Application Bundle™ or DAB™ for short. The DAB is created on-demand at job execution time, so it always includes the appropriate updates and patches. There's no need to build and re-build images — the DAB is built for you automatically. And don't worry that a file could be missed. The FastScale repository is always available.

FastScale DABs average 95% smaller than traditional software images, so provisioning to bare metal servers takes seconds, not an hour or more. The software stack, now megabytes in size rather than gigabytes, is small enough to run in memory. And the DAB is non-persistent, so when your job is complete, the server is available for you to provision a new DAB — all in seconds.

The FastScale Composer Suite integrated software management platform delivers the increased performance, utilization and scalable compute infrastructure required by next generation data centers.

FastScale Composer Suite Benefits
System Administration	A single point of SW management & automated software environment building reduces administration time by 75% or more.
Server Consolidation	JIT provisioning enables improved server utilization to 90% plus. Increased utilization enables server consolidation.
Reproducibility & Traceability	FastScale software environments can be rebuilt at any time without maintaining images. Audit logs of all repository activity enable granular traceability.
Reliability & Power	Automatic dependency mapping reduces manual and costly errors. Diskless nodes increase reliability & reduce power/cooling.
Fine-Grained Tracking	Detailed usage tracking enables savings on SW licenses, improved compliance & fair share billing.
Implementation Time	Reduce implementation time from months to hours — literally! FastScale Composer Suite is intuitive, yet highly configurable.
TCO	Save 70%+ on software, hardware, administration and professional services with FastScale Composer Suite.

FastScale Composer Suite is all about innovations that help you solve complex IT problems with very low risk. There's no need to purchase expensive infrastructure, endure months of professional services engagements or displace current investments. Let us tell you more about how FastScale Composer Suite may be just the right answer for you.

FastScale — Simply elegant.