Palo Alto, CA June 15 - Scalent Systems, the leader in infrastructure virtualization, today announced that it has been awarded “Best Virtualization Product of the Year” in the European IT industry’s renowned Techworld Awards (formerly Network Awards). The Techworld Awards have recognized great products in the industry for over thirteen years. Scalent was chosen for the top honor over products from VMware, Parallels, NEC, and other industry leaders.  

Scalent’s software is unique in providing real time data center management and automation across physical and virtual environments. The Scalent V/OE software enables data centers to react in real-time to changing business needs by shifting workloads and connectivity: by dynamically changing what servers are running and how those servers are connected to network and storage. The result is an adaptive infrastructure, where data centers can transition between different configurations – or from bare metal to live, connected servers – in five minutes or less, without physical intervention.  

Scalent’s software complements widely-deployed server virtualization (hypervisor) solutions by delivering full infrastructure virtualization, including:  

• Simple deployment, automation, and management of both virtual andphysical servers, network connectivity and storage access
• Seamless, real-time movement of images at boot between physical hardware, virtual hardware, and different hypervisors via Infinite Virtual Transition™ – no conversion needed  
• Cost effective high availability and server failover solutions, through Scalent’s N+1 technology leveraging existing IT assets
• Fully-automated disaster recovery across data centers, through Scalent’s disaster recovery technology;
• Creation of server pools that enable server rightsizing and scalability through dynamic repurposing; and
• Effective chargeback capabilities, logical, secure partitioning, and named pools of resources for rapid change of operational lab or production environments.

Using Scalent software, companies have been able to implement cost-effective management and automation solutions for server failover, disaster recovery, QA test labs, and other operational challenges – while reducing server counts, simplifying manageability, and increasing reliability. Many of the Fortune 1000 companies rely on Scalent to support their success, having adopted the software as an integral part of their business continuity, QA test infrastructure automation, and IT operations.

About Scalent Systems
Scalent Systems is the leading provider of Infrastructure Virtualization software to large data centers worldwide. Scalent's software enables data centers to react to changing business needs by dynamically changing what servers are running and how those servers are connected to network and storage. The result is a real-time infrastructure, where data centers can transition between different configurations -- or from dead bare metal to live connected servers -- in five minutes or less, without physical intervention. Using Scalent software, companies have been able to implement cost-effective solutions while reducing server counts, simplifying manageability, and increasing reliability. Many of the Fortune 1000 companies rely on Scalent to support their success, having adopted the software as an integral part of their business continuity, QA test infrastructure automation, and IT operations. Scalent Systems is based in Palo Alto, with offices worldwide. Scalent's software is available globally both direct and through partners and resellers. For more details visit www.scalent.com or call 1-866-4-Scalent.