StackSafe, Inc., a provider of pre-deployment staging and testing solutions for IT Operations teams, announced today that the company has been declared the winner of the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer’s 2008 National University Start-Up Competition.
After various presentations to VC, angel investor and university judges, StackSafe emerged from 400 competing university startups as an elite investment-worthy company.
“It’s a great accomplishment to be viewed as a leader in this competition,” said Loren Burnett, CEO and President of StackSafe. “We’re proud that StackSafe has been recognized for its effort in creating a solution designed to cut costs for businesses by minimizing the production problems of IT teams.”
StackSafe, a Columbia University spin-off, provides solutions that enable IT teams to significantly improve pre-deployment testing in order to reduce costly production problems and downtime that drain valuable time and resources from IT departments. Its flagship product, StackSafe Test Center, combines staging, testing and reporting capabilities to predict IT complications brought on by configuration changes, upgrades, or patches.
“Working with the talented team at StackSafe has been a real privilege for us”, said David B. Lerner, Director of New Ventures at Columbia Science & Technology Ventures. “We’re proud to have Loren and his team recognized in this forum. StackSafe is a terrific example of successful spin-off that came out of our software labs.”
The StackSafe™ Solution
In response to the need for better IT Operations testing tools and methodologies, StackSafe has developed StackSafe Test Center, a new, automated staging and testing solution that improves availability and resiliency through enhanced software infrastructure testing. Test Center directly addresses incomplete and ineffective IT Operations testing and analysis of changes to multi-tiered software infrastructure stacks.
Critical Business Activities
StackSafe Test Center enables both availability and change responsiveness through advanced change impact analysis and proactive evaluation of change scenarios. IT Operations can perform tests in a safe sandbox testing environment and configure Test Center to interact with external infrastructure components. Test Center enables IT Operations to support a number of critical business activities, such as:
- Change impact analysis
- “What-if” analysis
- Evaluating business resiliency
- Application upgrades
- Certification and compliance
- Problem and failure evaluation
- Application assembly/integration
About StackSafe, Inc.
StackSafe provides software infrastructure testing solutions that enable IT teams to significantly improve uptime and resiliency. StackSafe’s flagship product, StackSafe™ Test Center, directly addresses the challenge of incomplete and ineffective IT staging and testing of changes to multi-tiered software infrastructure stacks. With Test Center, StackSafe provides the first easy-to-use virtualized staging and testing solution that enables IT teams to understand the business impact of changes–before they touch production systems. Test Center was awarded the 2008 ITIL Innovation of the Year award at the International IT Service Management Conference and Exhibition. Based in Vienna, Virginia, StackSafe serves IT Operations teams across multiple vertical markets.
For more information, visit www.stacksafe.com.
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