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IT organizations are buckling under the weight of sprawling infrastructure. According to industry analyst reports, over 70% of IT budgets are spent supporting existing applications, with 5% to 10% server utilization the norm.





"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."

Steve Zoppi
Managing Partner
Collabri Group, LLC














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FASTSCALE COMPOSER SUITE

With FastScale® innovation, bloated operating systems and complex software are no longer an IT constraint. Software environments can be streamlined and built automatically, on demand and then provisioned in seconds — all without the need to build and manage golden images. FastScale does the work for you. FastScale Composer™ Suite delivers a new generation of software virtualization and provisioning including:
  • Bare metal provisioning in seconds
  • 99% smaller software environments — automatically
  • Automatic patch & configuration management
  • Easily configurable policies and settings
  • Intuitive & flexible administration
With FastScale Composer, your entire server infrastructure is a dynamic pool of compute resources, able to run any application at any time. Software environments are resident on servers only for the duration of the job in process. Once complete, the server is available for automatic provisioning of a new software environment — in only seconds! It's an entirely new approach to building, managing and deploying server software.

How FastScale Composer Works
FastScale Composer Suite delivers an elegant, scalable solution to managing even the most complex software infrastructure.

Software Component Repository
Simplicity is key. FastScale Composer stores all your software in a data warehouse, the Software Component Repository. That includes applications, operating systems, patches, configuration files, scripts and drivers — all of it. Using a graphical dashboard, you easily specify versions, configurations, permissions and more. All appropriate files are always available — even after an environment is deployed.

Application Blueprint
Today, you may spend weeks debugging a golden image. FastScale Composer automatically determines all application dependencies, no manual effort required. Our Application Blueprint™ identifies the precise operating system components an application requires to be fully functional. Operating systems support hundreds of thousands of applications. Any given application uses a small subset of the total. We identify these requirements automatically — in seconds.

Dynamic Application Bundle
Using the Application Blueprint, FastScale Composer builds a small, full-featured software environment with only the precise software components required — a Dynamic Application Bundle™ or DAB™ for short. The DAB is created on-demand at job execution time, so it always includes the appropriate updates and patches. There's no need to build and re-build images — the DAB is built for you automatically. And don't worry that a file could be missed. The FastScale repository is always available.

Lightweight Provisioning
FastScale DABs average 99% smaller than traditional software images, so provisioning to bare metal servers takes seconds, not an hour or more. The software stack, now megabytes in size rather than gigabytes, is small enough to run in memory. And the DAB is non-persistent, so when your job is complete, the server is available for you to provision a new DAB — all in seconds.



A Dynamic Application Bundle (DAB) is a small, fully-featured software environment with only the operating system components needed by the applications. Averaging 99% smaller than traditional images, DABs are provisioned to bare metal servers in seconds.


 

The Benefits
FastScale Composer Suite is a new generation of software virtualization and provisioning — the result of decades of talent and experience. We involved more than seventy-five customers over the past year and a half to help us design a streamlined, yet powerful solution to the challenges of managing software in large IT organizations. Every vendor claims to reduce your TCO and improve productivity. At FastScale Technology, we actually do it. Let us tell you more about how FastScale Composer may be just the right answer for you.

            
FastScale Composer Benefits
System Administration
A single point of SW management & automated software environment building reduces administration time by 75% or more.
Server Consolidation
JIT provisioning enables improved server utilization to 90% plus. Increased utilization enables server consolidation.
Reproducibility & Traceability
FastScale software environments can be rebuilt at any time without maintaining images. Audit logs of all repository activity enable granular traceability.
Reliability & Power
Automatic dependency mapping reduces manual and costly errors. Diskless nodes increase reliability & reduce power/cooling.
Fine-Grained Tracking
Detailed usage tracking enables savings on SW licenses, improved compliance & fair share billing.
Implementation Time
Reduce implementation time from months to hours — literally! FastScale Composer is intuitive, yet highly configurable.
TCO
Save 70%+ on software, hardware, administration and professional services with FastScale Composer.


FastScale Composer Suite is all about innovations that help you solve complex IT problems with very low risk. We do not require that you purchase expensive infrastructure, endure months of professional services engagements or displace current investments. We do not modify your applications or operating systems, nor do we require proprietary hardware.

So what do we do? We have you up and running in a couple of hours, using servers you already have. You can start small and grow at your own pace. Our early customers range from the Fortune 500 to high growth start ups. Across the board, they tell us that FastScale Composer helps them dramatically streamline their software infrastructure.

FastScale Composer — it's simply elegant.



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