Scalent Systems Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm
Vendors Selected for the "Cool Vendor" report are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing
PALO ALTO, CA-- March 31, 2009 - Scalent Systems, the leader in real-time management and automation software for virtual and physical data center infrastructure, today announced it has been named a “Cool Vendor” in the “Cool Vendors in IT Operations and Virtualization, 2009”* report by Gartner, Inc.
According to the Gartner report, "Advances associated with virtualization will continue to drive the need for management tools that can address the increasing scale and dynamic nature of virtual infrastructures." Some of Gartner’s recommendations are:
* IT organizations will need to look at tools to improve the efficiency of deploying and configuring applications and databases in physical and virtual environments.
* Ensure that virtualization management toolsets not only meet your functional requirements, but that they can be integrated within your overall (that is, physical and virtual) management architecture.
“From my perspective, Gartner’s research insightfully points out that creating a dynamic data center is essential to getting control over datacenter costs and complexities,” said Ben Linder, chief executive officer, Scalent Systems. “Our customers are enhancing their rollout of VMware and HyperV by using Scalent V/OE to automate and manage their server, network, and storage infrastructure.”
Today's data centers face escalating costs, security, and reaction-time challenges stemming from out-of-control server sprawl, statically allocated server hardware, and mixed physical and virtual environments. These challenges result in higher costs and a lack of IT agility in the face of rapidly changing operational demands.
Scalent V/OE addresses all of these challenges by allowing IT managers to rapidly provision entire virtual or physical systems and associated storage and network topologies -- yielding higher asset utilization and drastically lower costs.
About Scalent
Scalent Systems is the leading provider of Real-time Management and Automation software for virtual and physical infrastructure to 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. Learn more at http://www.scalent.com.
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months. *Gartner “Cool Vendors in IT Operations and Virtualization, 2009” by Cameron Haight, Terrence Cosgrove, Milind Govekar, Donna Scott and Ronni J. Colville, March 11, 2009.
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