Virtual Iron is Featured Solution Provider at LinuxWorld 2006 San Francisco
Company Hosting Panel on the Next Generation Data Center with IBM, Intel and Microsoft; Version 3.0 Selected as Finalist for Virtualization Product Excellence Award
Lowell MA, August 14, 2006 – Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of software solutions for creating and managing virtual infrastructure in the data center, announced that it will host an interactive panel titled “Virtualization and the Next Generation Data Center” at LinuxWorld 2006 in San Francisco this week. The panel will feature virtualization thought leaders from IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Virtual Iron and discuss the latest standards-based and open source technologies and how they are changing the economics of virtualization. The session will also look at the impact of new hardware-assisted virtualization technologies and how virtualization is being used to create more flexible infrastructure and deliver computing capacity on demand.
Date: Wednesday, August 16
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PDT
Location: Moscone Center, Room 303
Panelists:
- Jim Fister, Lead Technology Strategist, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel
- Kevin J. Leahy, Director, Virtualization Solutions and Strategy, IBM
- Mike Neil, Product Unit Manager for Windows Virtualization, Microsoft
- Alex Vasilevsky, Founder and CTO, Virtual Iron Software
Moderator:
- Mike Grandinetti, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management and Chief Marketing Officer, Virtual Iron Software
Virtual Iron also announced that its Xen-based virtualization platform, Version 3.0, has been named a finalist for the Linux Journal Product Excellence Awards being selected at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. The company is competing in the Best Virtualization Solution category.
“Virtual Iron is the first company to bring a comprehensive, Xen–based, virtualization and management solution to the market that is truly enterprise-ready,“ said Mike Grandinetti, Chief Marketing Officer for Virtual Iron. “We are gratified to be recognized once again by the Linux community for our pioneering efforts in building a complete virtualization solution, including sophisticated, policy-based virtual infrastructure management, on top of the Xen hypervisor."
Version 3.0 combines Virtual Iron’s advanced virtualization and policy-based management capabilities with the open source Xen hypervisor. It is the first and only software solution to take full advantage of new hardware-assisted virtualization from Intel and AMD. The software provides support for unmodified 32- and 64 - bit Linux and Windows operating systems and applications, as well as support for SMP and very large memory (128GB). It is purpose-built for production-class workloads and supports hundreds of physical servers and thousands of virtual servers. The software automates many time-intensive manual tasks such as provisioning new servers and moving capacity to handle dynamic workloads. It also monitors physical systems and automatically responds to availability issues. These capabilities enable users to streamline data center management while dramatically reducing capital and operating expenses.
The Linux Journal Product Excellence Awards distinguish product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors and are divided into 13 categories, including an overall “Best of Show” award. Judged by a group of respected industry experts, award winners will be announced during a ceremony on Wednesday, August 16.
Virtual Iron will also be exhibiting at the Linux World Expo with both AMD (Booth #916) and Intel (Booth #1102). The company will be presenting demos of Version 3.0, and making theater presentations at both locations.
About Virtual Iron Software, Inc.
Virtual Iron provides 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. The company delivers advanced capabilities that exploit industry standards, open source economics and processors with virtualization technology built-in. Organizations use Virtual Iron’s software for consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, disaster recovery, 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 www.virtualiron.com or email info@virtualiron.com.
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