The proliferation of servers in today's data center is an epidemic. Whether measured in management cost, power, cooling, floor space, license cost or just about any other metric, IT infrastructure is approaching, and frequently exceeding, the practical limits of manageability.

Consolidation initiatives abound as IT tries to attack the chronic problem of low server utilization — from virtual machines and data center automation to application streaming, network attached processing, grid computing, and more. Each approach targets certain symptoms of the utilization problem, but none delivers a broad-based, scalable solution to server utilization in the data center.

What is the root cause? Software complexity. Operating systems are now alarmingly complex and bloated. When combined with applications, the full environment is both unwieldy in size and very fragile. Building an enterprise-grade "golden image" remains a largely manual process taking weeks or more. Then any change, however small, means more testing and added cost. The net effect is that over 70% of IT budgets are spent supporting existing applications. It sounds like an impossible dilemma.

The answer is a return to the fundamentals. 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.

With FastScale, 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! It's an entirely new approach to building, managing and deploying server software.

FastScale — Simply elegant.