Surgient Demonstrates Industry's Only Virtual Test Lab Management Solution for Heterogeneous Environments at VMworld 2006

Surgient Experts to Present Advanced Virtualization Techniques and Leading-Edge Use Cases in Conference Sessions

VMWORLD, LOS ANGELES, Booth # 712, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgient, the leader in Virtual Lab Management Applications for automating software test, training and demo labs, today announced that it will be presenting and demonstrating the latest release of its Surgient Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System (VQMS) at VMworld 2006, November 7-9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Today at VMworld, Surgient also announced a new partnership with PlateSpin to address the growing demand for automating the management of mixed virtual and physical environments. (Please see the press release at: http://www.surgient.com/news/200611107-platespin.asp)

A VMware Technology partner, Surgient is a Silver Sponsor of VMworld and will be demonstrating VQMS at its booth #712. Members of Surgient's product management and engineering teams will also be presenting dedicated sessions throughout the conference. These sessions include:

• Marcus MacNeill, director of product strategy at Surgient, will present a session on November 7 at 4:45 p.m. PT entitled, "Using VMware ESX Server to Train Military Personnel on Proper Network and System Security Techniques."
• David Marshall and Wade Reynolds, both senior architects at Surgient, are leading two sessions titled, "Top 12 Ways to Tune Guest Server Performance under VMware ESX Server." The first session is November 8 at 4:45 p.m. PT and the second is November 9 at 2:45 p.m. PT.
• Richard Cardona, principal engineer, will then present a session on November 8 at 3:15-4:15 p.m. PT entitled, "VMware Server Snapshot Portability Using the Open Virtual Machine Disk Format Specification."

VQMS version 5.0 is the only Virtual Lab Management Application to offer enterprise-class functionality and scalability for complex software environments, including broad support for heterogeneous virtual machine platforms. Advancing Surgient's vision to provide a comprehensive test lab management solution that meets today's enterprise requirements across the Application Delivery Lifecycle, Surgient will also be debuting a prototype of mixed virtual and physical server lab management capabilities at the VMworld conference.

Conference attendees will view the key VQMS lab management features and capabilities in action, including support for mixed virtual and physical infrastructure environments, image and policy-based resource management, dynamic pooling of virtual resources, scheduling and calendaring, universal remote access and customizable enterprise reporting tools. VQMS version 5.0 also provides enterprise-class scalability to deploy and manage labs consisting of thousands of virtual machines. With Surgient, users can use VMware or Microsoft virtualization technology, or any combination of the two platforms.

"Surgient pioneered virtual lab management and continues to innovate and respond to customer requirements for more flexible lab configurations," said Erik Josowitz, vice president of marketing at Surgient. "Software test lab environments are typically hybrid environments that must support complex configurations and all types of testing. Surgient VQMS is the only solution that enables automated setup and teardown of complex software test configurations anytime, anywhere and with any type of infrastructure." Surgient Virtual Lab Management Applications enable enterprise IT organizations to consolidate and share pre- and post-production infrastructure, while allowing development, QA/test, training, sales, marketing and support functions worldwide to rapidly provision and securely access complex software configurations, or sandboxed software environments, on-demand.

About VMware

VMware, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC), is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit http://www.vmware.com or call 650-475-5000.

About Surgient

Surgient puts virtualization technology to work for the world's largest Global 2000 organizations and independent software vendors (ISVs). The first company to provide on-demand applications that automate the deployment, configuration and teardown of complex enterprise software environments or "virtual labs," Surgient's award-winning virtual lab management solutions enable end users to rapidly provision needed computing resources for business- critical initiatives such as software QA/test, training, sales and marketing. With over 500,000 virtual labs applications delivered to date, Surgient enables companies such as Business Objects, EMC, Mercury Interactive, Microsoft, Oracle, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and Symantec to dramatically accelerate the software application delivery lifecycle, reduce operating costs, increase productivity and enable IT to better align with business priorities. Surgient partners with leading technology companies including EMC/VMware, Microsoft, Mercury Interactive, Saba/Centra, ViewCentral and WebEx Communications. Surgient is a private, venture-backed company based in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit http://www.surgient.com.

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