RSSSurgient Software Creates 'Self-Service Cloud'
Surgient has renamed and updated its virtual lab automation software, which aims to relieve some of the burden on IT departments by allowing business units to set up their own virtual compute environments for internal projects like application development and testing.
Despite its small size, Surgient has an advantage over VMware in that it supports all the main virtual machines, while VMware is focused only on its ESX hypervisor, Lanowitz said. Surgient also integrates with HP's Quality Center testing software, so users can access Surgient from inside HP's product, and it will integrate with IBM's Rational Quality Manager software when it is released later this year, Malcolm said.
Surgient began by offering the product as a hosted service but now gets about 45 percent of its business from on-site installations. The license for the software starts at $25,000, and the average deal size is about $250,000, Lucas said.
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