Scalent Systems, the leader in real-time management and automation software for virtual and physical data center infrastructure, today announced that it has been selected as a Finalist of the Red Herring 100 Global Award. The award recognizes private companies that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation in the marketplace.
Red Herring 100 winners and finalists of the last three years from North America, Europe and Asia are eligible for this coveted award and Scalent has been named as a finalist amongst this elite group. To get to finalist status, the Red Herring editorial team deploys a detailed process to whittle down a pool of 600 eligible, promising companies to the 200 finalists of this global award. Evaluations are made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy and ecosystem integration. The winners of the Top 100 Privately Held Companies will be announced later this month at the Red Herring Global 2008 Event in San Diego January 14-16, 2009.
"This year's impressive list of finalists showcases the smart and innovative companies out there demonstrating the significance of technology and innovation in today's global economy," said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. "It was not easy to select the 200 finalists but we are pleased with the outstanding quality of the companies on this short-list."
"Being chosen as a finalist in the Red Herring 100 Global awards is a great honor for Scalent Systems and offers validation of our efforts to offer an innovative and advanced way for companies to address their virtualization and business continuity challenges," said Benjamin Linder, CEO of Scalent Systems.
Scalent's software is unique in its ability to provide real-time data center management, automation, and virtualization across physical and virtual servers, networks, and storage. Scalent Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE) software enables data centers to react in real time to changing business needs by shifting workloads and connectivity: by dynamically changing entire bare-metal or virtualized systems and associated topologies -- including which servers are running, what software is running on them, and how they're connected to network and storage -- without requiring physical changes to the underlying hardware infrastructure. This ability to make real-time server software, network connectivity and storage access changes adds greater infrastructure flexibility, drives down costs and increases deployment and failover capabilities of data center systems.