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Virtual Iron has enabled thousands of IT organizations to achieve significant ROI via server consolidations, development & test automation, simple virtual infrastructure management, business continuity, reductions in power, cooling and floor space and flexible virtual desktop infrastructure. Learn more here

Virtual Iron’s enterprise-class virtualization solutions provide centralized, policy-based virtualization management for a shared pool of dynamic server, storage and network resources. The software delivers a unique set of advanced virtualization capabilities that set Virtual Iron apart from other offerings in the market:

Native Virtualization
Virtual Iron’s approach to virtualization is efficient, easy to manage and based on open source virtualization. The software dramatically streamlines virtual infrastructure management and reduces operational costs by:

• Leveraging hardware assisted virtualization capabilities from Intel and AMD for optimal virtualization efficiency
• Allowing 32- and 64-bit x86 operating systems to run unmodified and concurrently on a partitioned server
• Requiring no installation or management of the virtualization layer
• Virtualizing all data center resources including servers, networks, and storage

Policy-Driven Management
Virtual Iron's unique, policy-driven automation simplifies the management of computing resources and enables rapid provisioning and deployment without increased administrative overhead. Features like LiveMigrate™, LiveCapacity™, LiveMaintenance™, LiveRecovery™ and LiveSnapshot™ enable automated and dynamic resource management.

Price/Performance Leadership
Open source economics and efficient use of physical resources provide dramatic cost reductions. Hardware-assisted virtualization minimizes overhead to provide virtualization benefits to the broadest range of applications.
These capabilities allow users to optimize physical and people resources by transforming the data center into an efficient pool of shared computing resources that are dynamically configured and managed via software; the ability to run any application, anywhere, any time.

Organizations must align computing resources with their business initiatives to deliver the response and agility required to succeed. This requires a dynamic infrastructure that allows technology to dynamically adapt by matching IT supply with business application demand. Specific issues and challenges include:

• Computing resources trapped in over-provisioned application silos.
• Poor service levels because of workloads that cannot tap additional capacity when needed.
• Major revenue losses as a result of application outages due to capacity constraints or system failures.
• High administration costs of reconfiguring capacity due to complex data center environments.

Virtual Iron offers a virtual infrastructure management platform developed specifically to combat the inefficiencies and inflexibilities of today’s data centers. The software optimally matches available capacity of data center resources to workload demands. Leveraging this solution, companies are able to:

• Combine the resources of many servers into a single, seamless, sharable, infrastructure-wide pool.
• Make data center resources rapidly available to any application without incurring provisioning costs and without disruption.
• Deliver on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) more consistently and cost effectively.
• Use LiveMigrate to move workloads and LiveCapacity to add resources on the fly without any downtime.
• Share resources across applications, using computing resources where they are needed most and avoid the risk of running out of capacity.
• Build virtual servers of virtually any size to scale up or down on an incremental basis as required - utilizing anywhere from a fraction of a processor to 32 processors. Optimize equipment for efficiency and avoid overbuying capacity (CPU, memory, I/O) for peak workloads.
• Provision any server in seconds, without downtime. With a few clicks of a mouse increase any virtual servers processors, memory, I/O, storage or simply move an application from one virtual server to another.
• Automate provisioning and reconfiguration by setting policies to automatically manage performance and availability based on certain times, workloads or events.