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Virtual Iron to Showcase Advanced Virtualization Platform at Intel Developer Forum; Executive to Lead Three Presentations

Company to Demonstrate Enterprise-Class Architecture Innovations in Virtualization and the Power That Its Relationship with Intel Brings to Customers

LOWELL, MA –
Virtual Iron Software(www.virtualiron.com), a provider of software solutions for creating and managing virtual infrastructure in the data center, will demonstrate key features of its advanced virtualization and policy-based management platform at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Fall 2006. Virtual Iron offers the first and only software solution to take full advantage of new hardware-assisted virtualization from Intel.

IDF is taking place September 26-28 in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center.

Virtual Iron’s Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Grandinetti, will also lead a tutorial session which will examine the latest virtualization techniques, 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: Thurs. Sept. 28
Time: 8:00 a.m. PST
Location: Moscone Center West, Room 2011


Grandinetti will also lead two roundtable discussions around the business-level benefits and market direction for virtualization as part of Intel’s CXO Roundtable series:

Roundtable 1
Date:
Tues. Sept. 26
Time: 12:30 -1:45 p.m. PST
Location: Moscone Center West, Room 3018

Roundtable 2
Date:
Tues. Sept. 26
Time: 1:45 – 3 p.m. PST
Location: Moscone Center West, Room 3018


Virtual Iron’s demonstrations will be part of the IDF Virtualization Community at the show. The demonstrations will highlight key features of its platform which combines advanced virtualization and management capabilities with the open source hypervisor derived from the Xen project. Virtual Iron’s solutions take full advantage of new Intel® VT Virtualization Technology to deliver a cost-effective alternative to VMware’s proprietary virtualization offering for unmodified Linux and Windows operating systems. Enterprise organizations use Virtual Iron’s software to address a number of data center initiatives including:

  • Server Consolidation – increase hardware utilization while reducing capital expenditures
  • Rapid Provisioning – minimize operational expenditures High Availability - recover from failures, quickly, reliably and cost-effectively
  • Capacity Management – for Operational efficiency
  • Policy-Based Automation – reduce manual intervention, human errors and time and labor costs while automating data center operations using LiveMigrate™

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 (96GB). 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.


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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