New Version of Surgient Virtual Automation Platform Optimizes Private Clouds and Further Automates Virtual and Physical Infrastructure, Maximizing IT Resource Investments
Austin, Texas—Apr. 27, 2009 — Surgient, the leading provider of IT service delivery and virtualization automation, today introduced new features and enhancements to its Surgient Virtual Automation Platform. The new version enables IT administrators to reduce capital and operating spend by 50 percent or more and gain greater control over virtualized and private cloud infrastructures. New functionality enables IT professionals to control license sprawl, break up large hosts among several virtual pools and allow integration with VMware vCenter.
Numerous companies have deployed the patented Surgient Platform to optimize the IT Service Delivery process through dynamic resource provisioning and heterogeneous infrastructure management. With Surgient’s unique Policy-Driven Self-Service™ model, IT administrators define critical policies and deliver virtual and physical computing resources to users in a fully self-service manner.
The platform can be used to create internal or private clouds of resources serving multiple organizations within the enterprise, simplifying service delivery and freeing up IT staff to focus on more strategic activities. Surgient recently announced that many of its customers have realized the benefits of using Surgient’s technology to create private clouds. IT departments rely on Surgient to build and centrally manage clouds of virtual and physical resources and optimize infrastructure, while providing users with self-service access to resources across the delivery cycle.
“IT organizations in the pursuit of quick cost optimization projects should look to shared pooling of their development and test server resources and implement self-service provisioning,” said Donna Scott, VP, distinguished analyst at Gartner. “This will not only cut costs through dynamic sharing of resources, but increase agility by shortening the time it takes to provision not just a server but a service as well as make scarce people resources more efficient.”
"Surgient has taken its virtualization expertise out of the test lab and into IT operations," said Rachel Chalmers, research director, Infrastructure Management, at The 451 Group. "Surgient was a pioneer in the virtual lab automation market, one of the earliest and most effective testbeds for applying virtualization to the strategic challenges facing IT. Now the company has extended those benefits to job roles outside the test lab, including the people responsible for supporting production IT infrastructure."
“Surgient’s solutions create more efficient IT departments by streamlining the delivery of IT services, and the newest release of our platform builds on that success by giving customers more control over their environments,” said Dave Malcolm, chief technology officer at Surgient. “Whether you call it virtualized infrastructure or a private cloud, the bottom line is that companies are evolving data centers into elastic computing environments that are flexible to business users’ needs without requiring significant administrative overhead.”
Among the enhancements to Surgient’s Virtual Automation Platform 6.1:
Surgient Virtual Automation Platform 6.1 will be generally available April 30th. The Surgient Platform is offered as a hosted solution or licensed, onsite installation. Customers also have the option of implementing a hosted solution for rapid ramp-up prior to migrating to an on-premise platform. License pricing starts at $25,000.
Surgient is the visionary and market leader of IT service delivery optimization and virtualization automation. The patented Surgient Virtual Automation Platform™ is a powerful, flexible and mature solution that enables enterprise IT organizations to effectively manage diverse virtual resources and eliminate physical server and VM sprawl, while delivering Policy-Driven Self-Service™ computing resources to users. With policy-driven automation and a robust, guaranteed reservation system, users have on-demand access to their resources, and IT is freed up from manual administrative tasks to work on mission-critical projects. Using Surgient Virtual Automation Platform, world-class companies including Merck, Raymond James, HP, AHIMA, EMC, CA, Iron Mountain, IBM, GE, SAP, Microsoft and Intuit are accelerating their growth and profitability by automating virtual infrastructure in support of their business initiatives. Surgient is a private, venture-backed company based in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.surgient.com.
Heidi Johnson
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