By VSM News Staff published: Wednesday, May 09 2007
Award Recognizes the 100 “Most Promising” Private Companies Driving the Future of Technology
PALO ALTO, Calif. - May 2, 2007 Scalent Systems, the leading provider of server repurposing software for large data centers, today announced it has won a Red Herring 100 Spring Award, given to the top 100 private technology companies based in North America .
Red Herring's editorial staff diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout the North American region and from 800 candidates identified the top 100 companies that are leading the next wave of innovation. Companies were selected based on quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial data, quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.
"Having received more than 800 submissions, it is clear that we are witnessing a new outburst of creativity," says Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring . "With venture capital flowing again, it's exciting to see technology innovators and business investors collaborate to create disruptive technologies. The Red Herring 100 North America companies are impressive up-and-comers, and definitely the ones to watch."
Scalent Systems' adaptive infrastructure software dramatically increases data center flexibility and performance for business continuity and capacity automation initiatives. Scalent complements the capabilities of traditional server virtualization, addressing real and virtual machines, network connectivity, and storage access. Scalent allows data center operations owners to rapidly change entire systems and associated topologies, including which servers are running, what software is running on them, and how they're connected to network and storage, in real-time, without requiring physical changes to the infrastructure.
"Scalent has worked closely with many of the Fortune 1000 companies to become an integral part of their disaster recovery, server failover, and lab or capacity automation plans," said Ben Linder, CEO of Scalent. "We create an adaptive infrastructure, meaning any servers or applications connected to any networks linked to any storage can be recreated on any other machine or set of machines in the space of boot time – five minutes or less. Considering what lab prep and data center downtime costs companies in terms of revenue and employee productivity, Scalent can deliver tremendous value to any large organization. We are pleased to be regarded by Red Herring as one of the top private companies based in North America ."
The winning 100 companies were announced at the Red Herring Spring 2007 event, May 1-3, at the Hyatt Regency in Monterey , California . This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Red Herring 100 Awards.
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.
About Scalent Systems
Scalent Systems is the leading provider of server repurposing software to large data centers. Scalent Systems' adaptive infrastructure software, a 2007 InfoWorld Technology of the Year award winner, lets large data center managers radically increase data center flexibility and reaction time. Using Scalent software, companies have been able to implement cost-effective Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Test Lab / Capacity Automation solutions, while realizing the benefits of reduced infrastructure overhead, simplified manageability, and increased system performance. Many of the Fortune 1000 companies rely on Scalent to support their success, having adopted the software as an integral part of their business plans.
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