Scalent software enables our customers to achieve greater data center agility, responsiveness, and return on assets. [Please see our brief animated demo here]

Companies are primarily using Scalent to improve their approach to Business Continuity (for Server Failover / High Availability / Disaster Recovery) and Test / Ops Automation (for Test Labs and Managed Service Providers) in production, pre-production, and QA / test scenarios.

Some of our customers are also taking advantage of Scalent's capabilities to assist in their IT Consolidation efforts and extend their existing VMware or Xen hypervisor deployments within the context of the above usages, or independently.

Scalent is a critical enabler of enterprise cloud computing.

We've summarized the ways Scalent is used, below, or click on any link to see additional detail.

Business Continuity: Reducing the Cost and Complexity of High Availability, Failover, and Disaster Recovery
Have a standby server for each of your production servers? Have too many machines with no High Availability plan whatsoever? Learn how Scalent lets you dispense with most “standby” servers while still protecting all of your systems, by enabling rapid N-to-1 failover – or by enabling “standby” servers to be repurposed for other non-production systems, even as they remain available for High Availability failover or Disaster Recovery usage. Learn how.

Lab & Capacity Automation : Eliminating Redundant Systems, Increasing Resources & Speed
Spending more hours setting up machines and networks than testing or running systems? Don’t have enough physical machines to performance-test your multi-tier applications, or quickly scale to react to changing client needs in production? Learn how Scalent lets you rapidly, repeatedly deploy different multi-tier business systems on the same machines for Dev/Test… on the fly, without any physical network changes, and through an interface that guarantees server farm functional reality matches design. Learn how.

Hypervisors and Virtualization 2.0: Extending the Functionality of VMware, Xen, and others
Want the flexibility to VMotion virtual machines between ESX Servers on different LAN switches? Want to simply connect your ESX to different SAN LUNs, instead of re-architecting your data center for virtualization? Want the ability to dynamically go from dead bare metal to rolled-out full ESX or Xen servers (with all their virtual machines) -- and then back to bare metal Windows, Linux or Solaris, P2V and V2P -- in minutes? Learn how Scalent acts as the "pre-boot" environment for hypervisors, taking machines from powered off to installed, connected ESX or Xen, dramatically extending their functionality to work better in your existing, unmodified data center architecture. Learn how.

IT Consolidation: Removing "Application Silos" & running day / night app pairs on one machine
Test group starved for servers while DR has hundreds of idle "standby" machines? Datasynapse farms growing out of control? Running at 50% utilization because your daylight apps require 100% 12 hours a day, and your nighttime apps require 100% the other 12 hours -- on separate machines? Learn how Scalent lets you grant individual high-demand business system servers more physical machine capacity on an as-needed basis… without increasing the total number of machines in the data center. Learn how.