Background - Mobius Management Systems (NASDAQ: MOBI) is a leading provider of comprehensive software solutions for enterprise archiving and records management. Their products are used by 1,500 organizations, including more than 60% of the Fortune 100. Mobius was looking for a lower cost alternative to VMware's virtualization solution. Specifically, tey were looking for cost-effective and enterprise-class capabilities to deploy virtualization in mission-critical software development, testing and staging processes.

Solution - Mobius turned to Virtual Iron for price and feature benefits. Initially, Mobius used Virtual Iron for development, testing and QA initially, but realized that Virtual Iron provides the flexibility to virtualize all areas of their infrastructure. Mobius is now looking to deploy Virtual Iron to support their global sales force.

Impact - Mobius Management Systems reduced their virtualization costs by switching to Virtual Iron and has realized additional virtualization benefits now that the pricing barrier has been removed.

Quote - "Application development and testing is one of our most important business processes," said Mitchell Gross, president and CEO of Mobius Management Systems, Inc., a global provider of enterprice-archiving and records management software. "We must continually innovate to maintain our world-class capabilities. After a rigorous review of alternative offerings, we have chosen Virtual Iron to replace VMware for optimizing our software development, testing and staging processes. Virtual Iron's advanced capabilities and attractive price/value proposition will enable us to reduce server procurement costs and related power and cooling expenses while improving our team's productivity."

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