Surgient CTO Dave Malcolm to Discuss How Private Clouds and Other Approaches Help Manage Virtual Sprawl at Interop Las Vegas 2009

LAS VEGAS--(Business Wire)--
Surgient, the leading provider of IT service delivery optimization and
virtualization automation, today announced that Chief Technology Officer Dave
Malcolm will present at Interop Las Vegas 2009. Malcolm brings to the show years
of experience with companies deploying virtual environments that include various
hypervisor technologies. Surgient`s software enables private, or internal,
clouds and creates a self-service, virtual infrastructure to assist with the
delivery of IT services.

Malcolm is a participant in the panel discussion, "Controlling Virtual Server
Sprawl," where he will discuss the need for heterogeneous virtualization
management to control virtual server sprawl and ensure efficient use of
computing resources.

Virtualization has enabled IT teams to more quickly and cost-effectively
provision computing resources on demand. However, the rapid provisioning of
virtual servers has generated sprawl and management concerns. In this session,
Malcolm will join a panel of industry experts to discuss best practices and
management solutions to alleviate these issues.

What: Panel Discussion on "Controlling Virtual Server Sprawl"
Who: Dave Malcolm, CTO, Surgient
When: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PT
Where: Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nev.

About the Speaker

Malcolm is responsible for product management, software development and
datacenter operations for Surgient`s products and hosted solutions. Prior to
Surgient, he was the vice president of product group at Motive where he built
the software development organization from its early beginnings and was
responsible for product marketing and development of the entire Motive product
line that grew from $2 million to more than $65 million in annual revenue during
his tenure. Prior to Motive, Malcolm was the vice president and general manager
of the Internet Business Unit at Tivoli Systems. He graduated from the
University of Oklahoma with a bachelor`s degree in computer science.

About Surgient

Surgient is the leading provider of IT service delivery optimization and
virtualization automation. The Surgient Virtual Automation Platform is a
powerful, flexible and mature solution that enables enterprise IT organizations
to effectively manage diverse virtual resources and eliminate physical server
and VM sprawl, while delivering Policy-Driven Self-Service computing resources
to users. With policy-driven automation and a robust, guaranteed reservation
system, users have on-demand access to their resources, and IT is freed up from
manual administrative tasks to work on mission-critical projects. Using Surgient
Virtual Automation Platform, world-class companies including Merck, Raymond
James, HP, Halliburton, EMC, CA, Iron Mountain, IBM, GE, SAP, Microsoft and
Intuit are accelerating their growth and profitability by automating virtual
infrastructure in support of their business initiatives. Surgient is a private,
venture-backed company based in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit
www.surgient.com.

Surgient is a registered trademark of Surgient, Inc. in the United States and
foreign countries. Surgient Virtual Automation Platform and Policy-Driven
Self-Service are trademarks of Surgient, Inc. All other products and company
names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.

Schwartz Communications for Surgient
Keith Giannini or Lisa Mokaba, 781-684-0770
surgient@schwartz-pr.com

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