InfoWorld Reviews Comprehensive Capabilities of Virtual Iron 3.1

Leading Industry Publication Considers Virtual Iron’s Latest Offering as a Viable Alternative to VMware

Lowell, MA, December 13, 2006 – Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of enterprise-class software solutions for server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management, today announced that InfoWorld has published a comprehensive review of the company’s Virtual Iron 3.1 Beta product’s performance and capabilities in its December 11, 2006 issue. As one of the most highly regarded publications within the IT community, InfoWorld’s review of the Virtual Iron Version 3.1 product provides its readers with the independent technical validation that reinforces what many of them have determined based on their own assessments.

Offering its readers the most up-to-date information on the industry’s new and upcoming enterprise products and services, InfoWorld captured in the review the industry’s growing need to find an alternative to VMware’s, and has reviewed Virtual Iron’s Version 3.1 as a key contender at a fraction of the price.

According to the review, the release of Virtual iron 3.1 “showcases that VMWare’s competition is not terribly far behind. In some ways, {Virtual Iron} is actually ahead. Virtual iron 3.1 supports as many as 16 CPUs and 96GB of RAM per virtual machine, compared with VMware’s current limits of four CPUs and 8GB of RAM. Moreover, Virtual Iron extends {the open source hypervisor} by enhancing memory management to allow 32 and 64 bit guests to run side-by side, full virtualization to allow guest OSes to run completely unmodified and significant work to increase I/O performance.[1]” The review concludes by stating, “it certainly seems that Virtual Iron is well on its way to becoming a true competitor in the virtualization world…a full Virtual Iron 3.1 license costs a fraction of the comparable VMware license.[2]”

“We are very pleased the highly technical Product Review Lab team at InfoWorld arrived at their conclusions and we are honored to be seen as an up and coming competitor in the rapidly growing virtualization market,” said Mike Grandinetti, Chief Marketing Officer at Virtual Iron. “Releasing a commercial alternative to VMware, has been our focus from the inception of the company. InfoWorld’s finding is consistent with the opinion of our customers, technology partners, resellers and industry analysts, and serves to reinforce the considerable progress that we have made to date.”

The review coincided with the news of the general availability of the product, announcing the company’s enterprise-class virtualization platform providing full support for both unmodified Windows and Linux. The release of Version 3.1 brings to the industry the first commercial alternative to VMware and targets mainstream user adoption for both enterprise and small to medium business users. The company also announced pricing at $499 per socket for its multi-server Enterprise Edition, which is less than 20% of the cost of VMware’s comparable offering. In addition, the company announced the immediate availability of a single server Enterprise Edition production-ready offering of the software via download for free on a perpetual license basis. This is the first time that a true enterprise–class virtualization solution with advanced management capabilities has been made available for free.

About Virtual Iron Software, Inc.
Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software solutions for creating and managing virtual infrastructure. Its software enables companies to dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of managing and operating their enterprise data center. Virtual Iron delivers advanced virtualization capabilities that exploit industry standards, open source economics and built-in hardware-assisted acceleration. Organizations use Virtual Iron’s software for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, capacity management and policy-based automation to deliver significant improvements in utilization, manageability and agility. Virtual Iron is privately held and based in Lowell, Massachusetts. For more information, visit http://www.virtualiron.com or email info@virtualiron.com.

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[1] InfoWorld, December 11, 2006 Edition, from the article entitled, “Virtual Enlightenment Through Xen.”
[2] InfoWorld, December 11, 2006 Edition, from the article entitled, “Virtual Enlightenment Through Xen.”