A few months ago, FastScale Technology decided it was a good time to surface out of stealth mode. And with the virtualization community still beaming from ear to ear over the VMware IPO and XenSource acquisition, now seems like a GREAT time for any company to surface with a virtualization application play. FastScale announced the introduction of their Virtual Manager product which is designed to enable IT organi A few months ago, FastScale Technology decided it was a good time to surface out of stealth mode. And with the virtualization community still beaming from ear to ear over the VMware IPO and XenSource acquisition, now seems like a GREAT time for any company to surface with a virtualization application play.FastScale announced the introduction of their Virtual Manager product which is designed to enable IT organizations to automatically build and streamline server software environments on-demand and provisions them to virtual machines in seconds. The company said that on average, server software environments are 99% smaller than traditional images, which helps them to be built in a matter of seconds. Additionally, FastScale Virtual Manager delivers maximum hardware utilization by dynamically sizing a virtual machine disk image (VMDK) and its container to meet the precise requirements of the application environment. Interestingly, it also automatically includes and configures the appropriate VMware tools in the VMDK. The product currently supports the full line of VMware products, including VMware ESX Server, VMware Server and VMware Workstation. “Now that more enterprises are virtualizing their data center environments, systems administration and management is more complex than ever,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of FastScale. “We are focused on eliminating the complexity through highly innovative technologies that address not only how server software is deployed in virtual environments, but also how it is built in the first place. No one else has tackled this problem.” FastScale said that its Virtual Manager enables users to: Build & streamline software stacks automatically – to dramatically reduce system administration time, decrease manual errors and deliver more output from same physical resources. Create VMDKs with dynamically sized containers – for maximum use of hardware resources. Provision to virtual or physical machines on-the-fly – for optimal performance and load balancing. Run 3X+ more VMs per physical server without degrading performance – to enable increased server consolidation. Boot 40+ FastScale VMs in less time than a single traditional environment – for scalable, enterprise-class performance in a virtual machine infrastructure. Build and deploy virtual machines centrally – to fully eliminate virtual sprawl. The product will be available on August 31, 2007 and the pricing for it will start at $20,000. Software Development