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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. |