Prestigious technology analyst firm recognizes ScaleXtreme's next-generation cloud-based systems management tools for deploying, monitoring and patching servers

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 29 — ScaleXtreme, the leading provider of cloud and server management products, today announced that it has been named a "Cool Vendor" in the Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management 2012 report by Gartner Inc. The report highlights four exciting technology companies providing new thinking to the operations management sector.

The report, written by Milind Govekar, Ronni J. Colville and Ian Head, calls out ScaleXtreme's unique ability to monitor, alert, patch and control the costs of both public cloud instances and physical servers. ScaleXtreme is at the cutting edge of modern systems management, allowing customers to create server templates, deploy them across on-premise machines as well as public cloud machines and manage those machines with script automation. ScaleXtreme's powerful budgeting and control tools give cloud computing customers granular visibility into what they're spending and the ability to enforce budget limits.

"We're honored to be recognized for the hard work we've put into building ScaleXtreme," said CEO Nand Mulchandani. "Gartner's analysts are the best in the business and have built their reputations on their innate ability to see what's next in the future of technology. We are focused on building the next generation of IT Operations Management products and this recognition affirms our company and product direction."

Other vendors recognized in the Gartner report include AccelOps, Terma Labs and Veloxum. Download the report: www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=233196

ScaleXtreme provides a single view, unifying the management of an organization's server environment – spanning private and public cloud machines, different public cloud providers running on any virtualization platform, and even physical servers. It works with a variety of operating systems and technology stacks and helps users rapidly scale server deployments using templates. ScaleXtreme recently announced a number of additional features, including the industry's only cloud cost management tools which enables IT professionals to gain visibility into cloud provider costs, establish role-based budgets and prevent the launch of unauthorized cloud machines.

ScaleXtreme products also come equipped with cloud-based patch management automation which provides customers the ability to schedule, deploy and automate patches for multiple machines, as well as the on-the-go iPhone application that gives system administrators a unified view of their cloud instances through a single, simple interface.

Customers can use ScaleXtreme's free product by signing up: www.scalextreme.com/free

About ScaleXtreme

ScaleXtreme provides powerful, cloud-based server automation products for the modern distributed data center. Built from the ground up to be simple, scalable and social, IT gets a single unified automation platform to build and control physical, virtual and public cloud servers. For more information, visit www.scalextreme.com.

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Source: ScaleXtreme