Virtual Iron provides cost-effective, production-ready server virtualization software for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The solutions deliver comparable capabilities to VMware without the cost and complexity. Virtual Iron leverages the latest advances in hardware-assisted virtualization and open source to optimize performance and reduce virtualization overhead. Users deploy Virtual Iron's solutions to address a variety of data center issues including server consolidation, development & test optimization, high availability and disaster recovery, dynamic capacity management and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) enablement.
What Is Virtualization?
Server virtualization is transforming today's data center into a flexible, highly utilized set of virtual resources. By allowing multiple applications and operating systems to co-exist and share resources on a single physical server, virtualization is dramatically increasing server utilization rates while reducing power, cooling and space requirements. Read More
Small And Medium Enterprises
As your small or medium enterprise grows, server virtualization solutions can help you maintain service levels and IT efficiency while reducing infrastructure and management costs. By taking full advantage of industry standards and open source economics, Virtual Iron dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of virtualization, making server virtualization accessible to businesses of any size. Read More
“Small and medium-sized organizations looking
at virtualization should not feel that they have to
sacrifice advanced features for the sake of cost.”
Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
Server Consolidation
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. Read More
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.
Reduction in physical servers
Fewer physical servers to manage
More floor space availability
Less power and cooling consumption
Acceleration in application implementation
