A leading provider of IT resource management software solutions, Tek-Tools Software, announced today that its growth continues with 40 new customers and several existing customers expanding installations of Profiler Suite in the first quarter of 2008. To manage virtualized and physical IT assets, increasingly, new and existing customers are demanding capabilities in their IT infrastructure management software solution.

When it brought to market Profiler for VMware, a software solution for managing virtualized environments from the same Profiler console already so well known for its capabilities for managing physical IT assets, Tek-Tools answered that call in mid-February. The new virtualization module, at the close of the first quarter, had generated 40 percent of all licenses sold to new and existing Tek-Tools customers.

Tek-Tools also announced, later in Q1, an alliance with 3PAR®, whereby a high-performance, Web-based storage management solution, Tek-Tools’ Storage Profiler™, adds support for a category of highly virtualized tiered-storage arrays built for utility computing, 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers.

President and CEO of Tek-Tools, Ken Barth, commented: “In anticipation of the impact virtualization would have on managing the IT environment, we started developing solutions to manage virtualized assets alongside the physical”. “The efficiency benefits of virtualization are tremendous, but it does not render physical assets obsolete and without a clear and comprehensive view of the virtual and physical IT infrastructure the benefits are immediately outweighed by the loss of control. We will continue to innovate to support our customers and help them to avoid this trap.”