Virtual Iron Online Demo Product Data Sheet

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

For most of the Virtual Iron customers we've found that the real value of server virtualization is with managing the infrastructure - both physical and virtual.

The power of virtualization is it enables the management of your systems independent of the physical infrastructure. As a result new applications can be brought online in minutes. Moving applications to new physical servers can be done instantly without causing any disruption to your business. Virtual servers can easily be copied for rapid recovery - if ever required. Upgrades, bring new applications online, performance management and business continuance are greatly simplified with server virtualization.

Upgrades don't happen every day but when they do occur it is a high priority project. In many cases, IT departments will delay for years the acquisition of new physical servers because of the cumbersome and often error-prone upgrade process. However, Virtual Iron customers have eliminated these challenges altogether. Server virtualization makes upgrading to new physical servers extremely easy and fast. This is because you can move virtual servers to any new physical server without having to worry about physical system incompatibilities. The process literally takes seconds and requires no downtime.

Bringing new applications online is a more common activity; however, it can also be an arduous and time consuming process in the past. However, server virtualization greatly simplifies application deployment. Virtual Iron customers bring up new applications onto existing or new physical servers easily. Virtual Iron customers have told us that this has opened a whole new way of doing business - since in the past they were cautious about bringing new applications online because of the time it would consume. With Virtual Iron, they can bring on new applications quickly and non-disruptively. As a result, they bring a great deal more value to the business. And that is what IT is all about.

Performance management is one of those unspoken issues that nearly everyone has to deal with. The challenge is that most businesses are not static but dynamic and changing unpredictably. IT can implement systems that could potentially be obsolete based on the ever-changing needs of the business. Virtual Iron customers leverage our virtual server management tools to address performance issues. As users and applications demand more performance from the physical servers, Virtual Iron provides the tools to analyze this and to move virtual servers to other physical systems. It's easy.

Business continuance is the name of the game. Running the business is the main objective of IT. In fact, in many ways IT is the business. Consider if your email system is down. You can't communicate with your customers - sales, operations, finance, marketing, etc - are all impacted. Virtual Iron customers leverage our software to keep their IT applications up and running so that the business continues even if disasters occur. If physical servers go down - virtual servers can be rapidly brought back online - without having to have expensive and complex solutions.

Virtual Iron customers have seen significant acceleration and improvement in the day-to-day management of their server infrastructure. The process has been compared to using an elevator versus having to use the stairs to get to the 20th floor.

The following are some of the key Virtual Iron Management capabilities: