Surgient is now a part of Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT), a leading global systems management vendor focused on helping customers solve everyday IT challenges faster and easier.
Located in Austin, Texas, Surgient is the leading provider of private cloud automation and management software. The company’s flagship, award-winning product, the Surgient Platform™, leverages leading virtualization and systems management technologies to automate the deployment and management of complex, user-centric IT services. Through a patented, just-in-time self-service approach, administrators and users access resource pools on-demand and through guaranteed reservations. With support for mixed virtual/physical environments and seamless scaling from the department to the enterprise, Surgient drives substantial business savings. Using Surgient, world-class companies including IBM, Merck, Raymond James, HP, AHIMA, EMC, Iron Mountain, GE, SAP, and Microsoft are reducing capital costs, increasing operational efficiency, improving compliance, and driving overall business agility.
Recognizing the benefits of virtualization in the early 2000s, Surgient was the visionary behind Virtual Lab Management beginning in 2003 and introduced some of the first virtualization applications to the market – applications for software QA/Test, training, sales and marketing that are still in use today by major ISVs and global corporations. Surgient partners with leading solution providers to offer Policy-Driven Self-Service™ virtual computing environments to Global 2000 enterprises.
Surgient’s technology leadership is a direct result of its deep understanding of solving complex IT challenges for some of the world’s largest companies. As a result, the company has been awarded several patents and has unsurpassed domain-specific experience and solutions for complex data center automation, virtualization, and enterprise-wide IT issues. With its patented virtualization automation and enterprise cloud technology, Surgient helps enterprise IT organizations save millions of dollars in capital and operating expenses, while driving unmatched efficiency across a wide range of IT Service Delivery functions.
Surgient maintains state of the art computing infrastructure with technology provided by Sun, NetApp, Cisco, HP, Dell, Microsoft and VMware in a Tier 1 hosting facility in Austin, TX. Surgient has delivered more than 1,000,000 virtual machines to clients running all types of applications from desktop point solutions to multi-tier enterprise class business critical software solutions. Our hosted self-service model enables training, sales, marketing and IT staff to leverage the power of virtualization on an accelerated timeline, enabling in quarter positive ROI in many cases.
Additionally, Surgient is an active member of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization dedicated to developing management standards and promoting interoperability for enterprise & Internet environments.
Surgient is led by software-industry veterans that have helped grow leading organizations such as Tivoli, Red Hat, SAS, Motive, Dell, Texas Instruments, Locus Computing, NCR, and Wyse, as well as start-ups such as Datis, Akopia, Simba, SunRiver/Boundless, Whisperwire and Wallop.
Surgient is backed by top-tier venture firms including Goldman Sachs, Austin Ventures, Crosslink Capital, BlueStream Ventures, Seaport Capital, SternHill Partners, MFI Capital (Tom Meredith, former CFO, Dell), and others.