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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 customers are leveraging the power of server virtualization through the consolidation of physical servers. Our customers tell us that server consolidation is one of the few "no-brainer" initiatives in IT today.

The key enabler to server virtualization has been the continuous increase in x86 processing power. IT departments have found that less than 10-30% of their server processing power was being utilized even at peak times. However, applications have been developed to expect a dedicated server - therefore running multiple applications on a shared physical server causes more problems than it solves. This is where server virtualization comes in.

Server virtualization enables IT to take advantage of excess processing power and present a dedicated virtual server to applications. Virtual Iron makes this process easy and transparent.

Virtual Iron customers have reaped the rewards of server consolidation including:

• Reduction in physical servers
• Fewer physical servers to manage
• More floor space availability
• Less power and cooling consumption
• Acceleration in application implementation

The Virtual Iron platform allows a physical server to be partitioned into multiple virtual servers that work identically to a physical server. Each virtual server can expand as demand dictates by allocating CPU-capacity that is available on the physical server. With this capability, Virtual Iron delivers a robust server consolidation solution with includes:

• A virtual computing platform that supports multiple virtual servers and multiple workloads per physical server; and adapts in real-time by delivering CPU-capacity based on the resource demands of the applications.
• Efficient server virtualization with minimal performance overhead; optimized to take full advantage of hardware-assisted virtualization built into today's processors from AMD and Intel.
• Support for running unmodified 32- and 64-bit x86 guest operating systems including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5, SLES 9 and SLES 10.
• Comprehensive policy-based management of virtual infrastructure capable of handling a wide range of applications and workloads.
• Reduced risk of performance drag due to intelligent CPU-capacity management.
• Up to 10X improvement in resource utilization.