Webcast: Streamlining Software Deployments Using Virtual Appliances - Panel Discussion Featureing the Burton Group, rPath and Virtual Iron

Lowell, MA, February 20, 2007 –   Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com) will host a free Webcast on Wednesday, February 21st entitled: Streamlining Software Deployments Using Virtual Appliances:

Date: Wednesday, February 21

Time: 11:00am - Noon EST

Presenters: Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group; Marty Wesley, Director of Product Marketing, rPath; Chris Barclay, Director Product Management, Virtual Iron Software. Moderator: Mike Grandinetti, Senior Lecturer in the Practice of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Chief Marketing Officer, Virtual Iron Software

Link: Streamlining Software Deployments Using Virtual Appliances

Virtual appliances represent a new opportunity to streamline and simplify software distribution for virtual environments. With a virtual appliance, software vendors can ship thoroughly tested, standard configurations that require minimal installation effort. Users are spared the complication of installing multiple supporting systems, since everything is contained in the virtual appliance package — the operating system, services and applications. This dramatically decreases potential support issues related to incorrectly configured software or hardware. Users can simply download the virtual appliance and run it with virtualization software.

In this online panel discussion, industry experts from the Burton Group, rPath and Virtual Iron will discuss best practices in virtualization and the use of virtual appliances. Attendees will learn:

- Best uses and deployment of virtual appliances

- Leveraging ready-to-run virtual appliances that you can take advantage of today

- Using virtual appliances to enable maximum operational efficiency and the smallest hardware footprint possible

For more information, or to register, click here.

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.

Contact:
Tim Walsh
Virtual Iron Software
(978) 849-1247
twalsh@virtualiron.com