Surgient is a pioneer and market leader of self-service virtualization automation and lab management. The Surgient Virtual Automation Platform™ is a powerful, flexible and mature solution that enables enterprise IT organizations to effectively manage diverse virtual resources and eliminate physical server and VM sprawl, while delivering Policy-Driven Self-Service™ computing resources to users. With policy-driven automation and a robust, guaranteed reservation system, users have on-demand access to their resources, and IT and test professionals are freed up from manual administrative tasks to work on strategic activities. Using the Surgient Virtual Automation Platform, world-class companies including Merck, Raymond James, HP, Halliburton, EMC, CA, Iron Mountain, IBM, GE, SAP, and Intuit are accelerating their growth and profitability by automating virtual infrastructure in support of their business initiatives.
Surgient and Microsoft Virtualization
Microsoft and Surgient are working together to provide Global 2000 enterprise IT organizations with a world-class, comprehensive solution for optimizing virtual lab infrastructure and automating the virtual machine lifecycle to drive accelerated, high-quality testing and delivery of IT services. The combination of the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization engine with the Surgient Virtual Automation Platform enables IT Test and QA professionals to:
Efficiently manage virtual lab infrastructure and provide self-service resources to global employees, customers, and partners, while reducing capital and operating costs and increasing user productivity.
Easily manage the complete virtual machine lifecycle (request→reservation→provisioning→operation→archiving→decommissioning) and prevent VM sprawl with policy-driven automation and an integrated approval system.
Streamline stage management of IT Service configurations, easily transition IT Services between stages, and automate production cloning to speed IT Service testing and delivery to production.
Customer Scenario
One of the largest bottlenecks in enterprise IT service delivery is the time and cost of setting up critical software test environments. In fact, the time spent simply provisioning test configurations can easily consume 50% or more of the total test cycle. Additionally, IT professionals face significant challenges in efficiently modeling and managing multi-tier applications for development and test efforts, managing administration-intensive resource request processes, and tracking service configurations through user-acceptance testing and production stages.
Surgient + Microsoft Solution
The Surgient Virtual Automation Platform integrates with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology to enable IT professionals to easily and efficiently manage virtualized infrastructure in support of development and test efforts. With Surgient and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, IT can streamline virtualized infrastructure management, automate resource administration, and provide an easy-to-use self-service interface for resource users. With comprehensive lab, lifecycle, and stage management, the Surgient Platform, with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, is a complete solution for optimizing virtual resource use.
Demos
Solution Testing in the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center
Surgient and Microsoft's joint solution has been tested in Microsoft’s Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) in Redmond, Wash., against a complex, multi-tier SAP NetWeaver Architecture. Read more about the test scenario and watch demos about the set up and execution of the tests.
