Since its founding in 2003, Virtual Iron has consistently been recognized by leading analysts, press, industry organizations and technology companies in the market. Below is a sampling of industry awards and recognition.
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| “The industry needs an alternative to proprietary and expensive virtualization solutions,” said Eric Bogatie, President of NI Solutions, a managed web service provider. “We want to leverage open source economics to consolidate our multi-OS data centers, but we require proven reliability, scalability and manageability to ensure we deliver on our service level agreements. With this new release, Virtual Iron is offering an enterprise-class solution based on open, industry-standards. We like the direction they are taking.”
NI Solutions Group
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| "[The] Xen [product] uses an open-source distribution model. This, together with Xen’s gathering vendor support and the increasingly urgent need to solve the problems of ‘server sprawl’ – sets the stage for a potentially dramatic industry shift,” said Tom Bittman, VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner.
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| “By leveraging Intel Virtualization Technology and open source standards, Virtual Iron continues to increase flexibility and reduce total cost of ownership for enterprise customers,” said Diane Bryant, Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Server Platforms Group. “This innovation on top of Intel’s industry-leading Xeon platforms enables Virtual Iron to efficiently create new and better software capabilities for users.”
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| “Virtual Iron’s support for industry standards brings users a new level of choice and flexibility in the enterprise data center,” said Juhi Jotwani, director of BladeCenter Solutions, IBM Systems and Technology Group. “IBM BladeCenter customers are increasingly exploiting virtualization as a means to reduce TCO while capitalizing on production-class performance.”
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| "Novell and Virtual Iron are focused on delivering enterprise-class virtual infrastructure management solutions for the data center based upon open standards such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and the Xen hypervisor" said Roger Levy, vice president and general manager of Open Platform Solutions for Novell. "This partnership is an important part of our continued commitment to offer customers their choice of industry-leading virtualization solutions."
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| "Akibia is working with a number of Fortune 1000 companies to help them lower total cost of ownership in the data center by migrating to industry standard infrastructure like x86 servers and Linux." said Ken Mclaurin, Senior Open Source Marketing Manager at Akibia. "By combining the Xen hypervisor with its own advanced virtualization capabilities, Virtual Iron has the ability to deliver the enterprise-class performance these customers are accustomed to receiving on proprietary Unix platforms."
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