StackSafe Named "Cool Vendor" in IT Operations by Leading Analyst Firm
Vendors selected for the "Cool Vendor report" are innovative, impactful and intriguing.
Vienna, Va. (PRWEB) April 17, 2008 -- StackSafe, Inc., a provider of pre-production staging and testing solutions for IT operations teams, announced today it has been named by Gartner in its "Cool Vendors in IT Operations, 2008," report. The 2008 report highlights vendors that are bringing innovative solutions to IT operations management teams.
Among the report's key findings, Gartner identified release management as an "important requirement" for IT operations teams who are responsible for testing infrastructure and operations changes, such as deploying patches or upgrades, quickly and cost-effectively.
"We are honored to be chosen by Gartner as one of six companies included on the Cool Vendor List in IT Operations for 2008," said Loren Burnett, president and CEO of StackSafe. "We feel it is affirming that the importance of better infrastructure testing by IT operations teams is recognized by an authority like Gartner as a key to improved uptime."
The report, written by Donna Scott, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, states that "while business system availability requirements are rising and change frequency is increasing, infrastructure and operations (I&O) change testing lacks the rigor required for optimal availability levels. Organizations that perform deep root-cause analysis on outages often find that more-thorough testing (of the change and rollback plans) could have prevented the outage"
The report also identifies release management as rapidly becoming an important requirement in I&O. It is particularly needed to test infrastructure and operations changes, such as patching and upgrades, quickly and cost-effectively.
StackSafe Test Center enables users to import production systems into a testing "sandbox" in order to conduct comprehensive staging, testing, analysis and reporting. Using virtualization technology, the imported system copies are networked into a working software infrastructure stack that closely represents the actual production configuration. IT Operations teams can then execute pre-packaged and customized tests to understand the impact of changes before they touch the live environment.
To read the full report, please visit www.stacksafe.com/gartner-cool-vendor.
To read analysts reports about StackSafe, please visit www.stacksafe.com/analysts. For information about StackSafe, please visit www.stacksafe.com.
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
About StackSafe, Inc.
StackSafe provides software infrastructure testing solutions that enable IT Operations to significantly improve uptime and resiliency. StackSafe's flagship product, StackSafe™ Test Center, directly addresses the challenge of incomplete and ineffective IT Operations staging and testing of changes to multi-tiered software infrastructure stacks. With Test Center, StackSafe provides the first easy-to-use virtualized staging and testing solution that enables IT Operations to understand the business impact of changes--before they touch production systems. Based in Vienna, Virginia, StackSafe serves IT Operations teams across multiple vertical markets. For more information, visit www.stacksafe.com.
NOTE TO EDITORS: If you would like additional information on StackSafe and its products, please visit the StackSafe Press Room at http://www.stacksafe.com/press-room.
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