Virtual Iron to Lead Industry Panel at LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit in New York
Company Hosting Panel on Virtualization and the Next Generation Data Center with IBM, Intel and VMware
Lowell, MA, February 13, 2007 – Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software solutions will lead an interactive panel titled “Virtualization and the Next Generation Data Center” at the LinuxWorld OpenSolution Summit taking place in New York this week. The panel will feature virtualization thought leaders from Cambridge Computer, IBM, Intel Corporation, Virtual Iron Software and VMware. Participants will discuss the latest virtualization technologies, including open source and hardware assist, and how they are changing the economics of virtualization.
Date: Wednesday, February 14
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST
Location: Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City
Panelists:
- Jacob Farmer, Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer
- Kevin J. Leahy, Director, Virtualization Solutions and Strategy, IBM
- Jake Smith, Advanced Server Technologies, Intel Corporation
- Eric Horschman, Marketing Director, VMware
- Chris Barclay, Director of Product Management, Virtual Iron Software
Moderator:
- Mike Grandinetti, Senior Lecturer in the Practice of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management and Chief Marketing Officer, Virtual Iron Software
Virtual Iron is leading a panel discussion for the third straight LinuxWorld event. Past panel sessions have been among the most popular and well-attended sessions at the conference. Virtual Iron will also be a featured solution provider in the Solution Showcase with AMD at Booth #46. Here it will demo the latest version of its enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management platform including advanced capabilities such as LiveMigrate, LiveRecovery and LiveMaintenance. Virtual Iron is one of only two vendors in the industry to offer these capabilities.
About Virtual Iron Software, Inc.
Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software for creating and managing virtual infrastructure at 1/5th the cost of comparable alternatives. Its solutions enable companies to dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of managing and operating their data center. Virtual Iron is available for free download at http://www.virtualiron.com/Free. The software delivers advanced virtualization capabilities that exploit industry standards, open source economics and built-in hardware-assisted acceleration. Organizations use Virtual Iron for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, capacity management and policy-based automation to deliver significant improvements in utilization, manageability and agility. The company 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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