the first product of its kind, VMware Stage Manager 1.0 Beta, addresses the needs of the IT and application administrators responsible for rolling new and updated IT services into production. Stage Manager enables the streamlined and accelerated transition of complex, multi-tier IT services through the pre-production stages such as integration, testing, staging, user acceptance testing into production. VMware Stage Manager reduces the risks associated with change requests to production systems by enabling application administrators to easily clone system configurations and maintain consistent virtual machine images throughout the release process as needed, enabling organizations to respond to changing business conditions more quickly