The release of a June 2008 report titled Tech Horizons: Evaluating StackSafe's Test Center Risk Reduction Solution that rates StackSafe™ Test Center as "on fire" has been announced by a provider of pre-production staging and testing solutions for IT operations teams, StackSafe, Inc. The report suggests that Test Center is "one to watch both as a competitor and a potential partner."

VP and principal analyst with Forrester, Jean-Pierre Garbani, stated: "StackSafe's solution is a direct complement to change control, as it provides much-needed validation before entering an application into production." "There are certainly other means of reducing deployment risks, but they are clearly more time-and resource-intensive, which explains their limited use in enterprises."

When deciding the potential for market adoption, Forrester Tech Horizons reports look at four fundamental criteria: the technology must present an economic advantage for the client of the new technology, it must present a technical advantage over existing technologies, it must satisfy the vested interests in the technology that will be replaced, and it must show these advantages in the shortest possible time frame, .

The fact that 42,011 North American companies, ranging from small enterprises to the Global 2000, will engage in disaster recovery, upgrades, application changes, or outsourcing applications. This could be used as a guide to evaluate the market potential in the US, has been found by The Forrester analysis.

In order to conduct comprehensive staging, analysis, testing and reporting, StackSafe Test Center enables users to import production systems into a testing "sandbox". The imported system copies, using virtualization technology, are networked into a working software infrastructure stack that closely represents the actual production configuration. IT Operations teams can then execute Test Center's pre-packaged and customized tests to understand the impact of changes before they touch the live environment.