Surgient Inc. has announced its Virtual QA/Test Management System (VQMS), a packaged test-lab management application that enables companies to centrally manage and automate the deployment of software test labs.

VQMS leverages virtualization infrastructure from Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) or VMware (Profile, Products, Articles) to treat lab resources as a centralized pool of dedicated computing capacity that can be deployed on-demand. VQMS helps optimize limited resources, reduce testing cycles, and accelerate time-to-delivery. Workgroup pricing for Surgient"s Virtual QA/Test Management System starts at $75,000.