Surgient announced version 5.0 of its Virtual Lab Management Applications. The new version supports heterogeneous enterprise environments and has advanced management capabilities and tools. It also has increased scalability for large deployments. Surgient has a partnership with Mercury to integrate their test management systems with Surgient's virtual lab management for automated testing. Upcoming announcements will provide more details on the products and partnerships.

1. Surgient Virtual Lab Management Applications v5.0 Erik Josowitz, VP Marketing August 2006

4. Surgient Customers

12. Surgient Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System (VQMS) Surgient VQMS Server Surgient VQMS Library Server VQMS MANAGED VM HOSTS Complete Multi-server Test Configurations Surgient VQMS Portal Test Team Request Configuration Reserve Capacity Provision Test Configuration VMs Isolate Network Access Configuration VIRTUAL MACHINE POOLS Pool - A Pool - B

13. Who Is Testing What? Operational (G2K) Development (ISV) extensive (H/W, OS, 3 rd -party S/W) limited (mostly desktop) Configuration Testing saved software configs mostly desktop Post-Production Config major OS patch, 3 rd -party upgrade, ISV upgrade change mgmt driven mostly desktop, SMS Regression Testing less automation (high S/W volatility) more automation (low S/W volatility) Functional Testing 50/50 (QA / Test vs. IT) managed by IT Ops Infrastructure

15. Integrating Test Management POOL OF SHARED LAB MACHINES SURGIENT CONFIGURATION LIBRARY CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT TOOLS SCM VQMS TEST LAB MGMT SOL’N Complete Multi-Server Test Configurations Provision Resources Virtual Test Configuration 1. PROVISION BASE TEST CONFIGURATION 4. SAVE TEST RESULTS/ SNAPSHOT ON DEFECT 5. RETURN RESOURCES TO POOL Automated Tests per Configuration 3. RUN TEST SCRIPTS 2. LOAD APPLICATION & TEST DATA   Quality Center

17. Patch Regression Testing Shared pool of managed servers Configuration Library with 200 Standard Configs Provision Resources Virtual Test Configuration Patch Deployment Server SMS Virtual Lab Automation Solution Patch Deployment Regression Test Scripts per Configuration ASQ ASQ Test Automation Scripts 1. CREATE 20 TEST CONFIGURATIONS 3. DEPLOY PATCH TO TEST CONFIGS. REBOOT 4. RUN REGRESSION TESTS FOR CONFIG 2. NOTIFY CONTROL SERVER 5. LOAD NEXT CONFIGURATION UNTIL ALL 200 COMPLETE

23. Questions and feedback

24. Managing Servers Dynamic Pools Managed Servers

25. Managing Configurations Heterogeneous Lab Configs Configuration Details

26. Scheduling

27. Managing Usage Policies Roles and Privileges Members and Policies

28. Quality Center – VQMS Test Set (existing) Schedule Execution

29. VQMS Add-In v5.x Test Set : Flight Application

31. Product Roadmap 2006 2007 2008 5.0 Heterogeneous virtual environments, integration with test management systems 5.5 Mixed virtual and physical test labs, integration with CMDB and provisioning 6.X Metered enterprise provisioning, integration with IT service management