Fully automates the process of building, deploying and managing server software environments.

FastScale Technology, Inc., a provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions for enterprise data centers and web farms, today announced the general availability of the newest version of its flagship product, FastScale Composer Suite. FastScale Composer Suite fully automates the process of building, deploying and managing server software environments. This new release builds on the company's breakthrough adaptive computing infrastructure with a range of features that help system administrators manage very large numbers of machines and software environments throughout the lifecycle.

Ease of use was a primary design consideration of FastScale Composer from the very beginning, and system administrators benefit from the only solution available that completely automates the labor-intensive, error-prone task of building and streamlining server software environments. With FastScale Composer, software environments average 99% smaller than traditional software images, are built on-demand and are deployed to bare-metal servers, from start to finish, in less than one minute. Combining flexible, rules-based mapping and automatic patch and configuration management, FastScale Composer Suite is the only software management solution that fully eliminates the golden image and the time-consuming process of building and managing it. The new release of FastScale Composer Suite is available from August 31, 2007. Pricing starts at $30,000.

Features in the new release include:

An increased richness and scalability of Web-based user interface,  incorporating the latest AJAX technology; system administrators benefit from a more dynamic, responsive and interactive UI; a new folder management system and drop-down menus improve how administrators view and manage of large numbers of machines and software environments throughout the lifecycle.

Extensive, scriptable command line, enabling users to script workflows and integrate with existing processes in large organizations.

More robust reporting capabilities, offering pre-formatted reports for common system administration functions, eliminating the need to export data to a separate reporting engine.

Deeper hardware discovery, ensuring that when new servers are introduced into the network, they are automatically captured at a more granular level for more precise hardware driver mapping.

“With FastScale Composer Suite everything is completely automated. The full software stack is built, streamlined and provisioned in seconds. Whether bringing a large number of new servers online or managing peak loads through rapid server re-purposing, the FastScale technology is an exceptional solution,” said Steve Zoppi, managing partner of Collabri Group, LLC.

“This release is focused on large enterprises and the specific usability challenges they face. The enhancements we implemented in the newest version of FastScale Composer Suite target the needs of system administrators managing thousands of servers and a very dynamic infrastructure,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale.