Surgient awarded three interesting virtualization patents

Surgient, a virtual lab solution provider that is perhaps best known for their software testing product (VQMS), just announced that it has been awarded three new patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office. The company directly competes with Virtual Lab Management products from both VMware and VMLogix.

Surgient has been creating these types of solutions longer than any other company; and as such, they have been accumulating patents to help reinforce the company’s vision in the virtual lab management space.

The three patented technologies are key components of the Surgient virtual lab management platform. They include:

• US Patent #6,990,666; “Near Online Server”: Describes a method for providing fractional burst capacity in delivering virtual computing resources from a centralized, shared server resource pool.
• US Patent #7,257,584; “Server File Management”: Describes a method for providing portability of virtual server “snapshots” across physical server hosts. One of the underpinnings of Surgient’s library management server, this patented technology provides greater flexibility when developing, managing and deploying virtual machine images.
• US Patent #7,287,186; “Shared Nothing Virtual Cluster”: Describes a method for organizing virtual machine resources for rapid recovery, such as that required by advanced disaster recovery, reduced power consumption or business continuity scenarios. Enables virtual machines to dynamically move across physical hosts without requiring data to be moved or copied.

Tim Lucas, president and CEO at Surgient said, “The patented technologies act as the underpinnings of a number of our virtual lab management capabilities, helping Surgient customers better manage their virtual labs to ensure greater productivity gains across the application lifecycle.”