Today’s IT teams cope with a daunting number of challenges in meeting the demands of dynamic data centers and Web farms. At many companies, production peaks can mean that hundreds of new servers are needed with only a week to deploy. For organizations responsible for large Web sites, server workloads may fluctuate dramatically hour-to-hour. In other businesses, seasonal demands create large, rapid shifts in infrastructure needs. The ability to quickly, easily and cost effectively re-purpose servers is a strategic imperative for these organizations.

And the basics are anything but steady-state. Security patches and updates may be required weekly or more, multiple versions of applications and operating systems are managed concurrently, a laundry list of hardware platforms and configurations make troubleshooting a nightmare, and the testing, provisioning and re-provisioning is endless.

A key obstacle to dynamic server re-purposing has been managing software complexity. Building production-grade golden images remains a largely manual effort taking anywhere from days to weeks.  Provisioning can take an hour or more, even with automation. Patching and updating, testing and re-provisioning mean more system administration and downtime.  It’s frustrating, resource-draining and anything but dynamic.

The cost? For most data centers, upwards of 80% of the budget is spent supporting existing applications and infrastructure. Scalable solutions for dynamic IT infrastructure require an entirely new approach to building, managing and deploying server software.

With FastScale Composer™ Suite, re-purposing servers on the fly 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 DAB — all in seconds. FastScale Composer Suite is an entirely new approach to building, managing and deploying server software.

Managing the dynamic needs of data centers and Web farms is exactly why FastScale Composer Suite was developed. It's an elegant, scalable solution for managing even the most volatile workloads and variable computing needs.

• 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.