Gale Technologies Achieves Strong Sales and Product Momentum in 2011

Gale Technologies, a leading provider of infrastructure automation software solutions that power Infrastructure as a Service for labs, enterprises, and service providers, had a very successful 2011 with releases of multiple new products, new clients, and growing awards recognition. Gale Technologies has innovated many sought-afterwards features and provided them to their clients, giving them the benefit of being able to quickly and reliably build private and hybrid clouds out of their existing physical and virtual resources.

"Most companies today are at the inflection point of actively planning for cloud computing, even so wanting to maximize their current investments. Our approach of building private and hybrid cloud environments out of existing hardware and software allows companies to fully realize the potential of their infrastructure investments and together set them up to seamlessly evolve to the then and there generation of Cloud Computing," said Nariman Teymourian, chief executive officer of Gale Technologies. "In 2012 we are committed to continuing our cloud innovation development to provide users with the most versatile, easily manageable, value-creating solutions furthering our position in the cloud sector."

The GaleForce Turnkey Cloud in March 2011

Gale Technologies launched the GaleForce Turnkey Cloud in March 2011. The GaleForce Turnkey Cloud allows clients to convert their existing IT infrastructure into a private or hybrid cloud environment in just two steps and as little as two weeks. Additionally, Gale announced the availability of over sixteen new automation Resource Adapters that will allow multiple new products from VMware, Citrix, IBM, NetApp, HP, Dell, and Cisco to be seamlessly integrated into a private cloud built using GaleForce software, the company's flagship product. These adapters add to an already extensive library of over 150 resource adapters that manage and provision thousands of compute, network, security, and storage devices. Gale as well announced a brand new product, Cloud Scheduler, that optimizes scheduling and deployment of virtual machines in dynamic virtual environments.

Accelerating its sales momentum, Gale Technologies has signed multiple new clients, effectively doubling its deployment of GaleForce Software in 2011. Customer wins include new enterprise clients, a growing market segment for Gale, as so then as growth within the government sector. Gale Technologies as well experienced expansion within our tradition innovation vendor and service provider markets.

Sign of its growing position within the cloud

As a sign of its growing position within the cloud, Gale Technologies was a winner of the 2011 Network Products Guide 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Award in the Hot Companies category and was named a finalist in the SIIA CODiE Awards as best cloud infrastructure application, and a finalist in the TiE50 Awards for its technical research. Gale placed third as best private cloud vendor in CloudCamp's Cloudy awards, at the 2011 SXSW Interactive festival. Gale was spotlighted as one of the Top 6 Innovators at VMworld 2011 by Virtualization Review. Just in case, Garima Thockchom, Gale's vice president of marketing, was recognized as one of Silicon Valley's 2011 Women of Influence by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, and as a finalist in the Stevie Awards for Best Executive in a Computer Software company with up to 100 employees.

With over 100 live deployments powered by its products, Gale Technologies is a trusted provider of advanced IT automation software - allowing organizations to accelerate and streamline the delivery of infrastructure as a service and cloud computing environments. As a pioneer of innovative solutions for end-to-end resource provisioning, scheduling, and automation across networking, server, storage, and virtualization technologies, Gale allows thousands of users to schedule and execute workloads on a shared, heterogeneous, dynamic environment with unprecedented flexibility. Gale's clients report CAPEX and OPEX savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars per site from converting legacy silos of IT environments into fully automated and shared dynamic environments that can be securely accessed 24/7 from anywhere in the world. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Gale serves a global customer base with offices in North America and Asia. For more information, visit www.galetechnologies.com.