Fabric7 and Virtual Iron Sign OEM Agreement to Deliver Enterprise-Class Virtualization and Management to Customers.Combined Offering Optimizes Physical and Virtual Infrastructure to Reduce Data Center Cost and Complexity MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LOWELL, Mass. -- Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com) and Fabric7 Systems (www.fabric7.com) today announced a new business agreement and partnership that will help joint customers maximize the capabilities of Fabric7's new family of enterprise servers with Virtual Iron's virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. and management software solutions. Under the agreement, Fabric7 will bundle Virtual Iron's virtual infrastructure management software with its high-performance, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Opteron[TM] processor-based servers, to provide customers with maximum flexibility and reliability when deploying and managing enterprise-class applications in a virtual environment. The companies have also agreed to develop joint product offerings for users and to collaborate on marketing and sales. Both Fabric7 and Virtual Iron focus on providing customers with flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity in managing their IT environments. The new joint solution enables companies to take advantage of these benefits in both their physical and virtual environments. As a result, users will be able to roll out server consolidation projects more easily and quickly realize substantial return on investment. The partnership leverages the companies' common focus on enterprise and line-of-business (LOB) workloads in the rapidly expanding x86-64 server marketplace. The joint solution also takes advantage of native support for AMD's hardware-assisted virtualization (AMD-V[TM]) to achieve higher levels of efficiency and utilization. "Because it delivers concrete cost savings and dramatic manageability improvements, virtualization is a strategic technology for enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. ," said Jonathan Eunice, Principal IT Advisor for Illuminata. "Both Fabric7 and Virtual Iron are innovators innovators people who will try new things. early innovators important figures in the farming or client community because they are the leaders in the introduction of new techniques and management systems. in system infrastructure; combining forces to offer an integrated server virtualization (1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions within a single server. The "virtual machine" method can run different operating systems simultaneously, whereas the "OS virtualization" method runs applications for only one operating system (see virtual machine and OS solution makes impeccable sense." "Virtual Iron is committed to delivering enterprise-class performance and reliability to its customers," said John C. Thibault, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Virtual Iron Software. "Our joint solution with Fabric7 enables customers to virtualize To cause a virtual technique to be performed. See virtualization. mission-critical applications and workloads with confidence and dramatically improve data center efficiency and productivity. The cost savings and operational benefits are dramatic and immediate." Fabric7's enterprise servers leverage a unique architecture, called fabric computing, to combine processing and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output resources into a flexible and highly efficient network fabric that increases flexibility and utilization within both individual servers and across multiple machines in the data center. With Virtual Iron, Fabric7 will be able to further extend the value of its solutions by enabling customers to maximize the utilization of the company's hardware-partitionable processor and memory complexes with a highly advanced and flexible virtualization and management suite. "As the cost and complexity of managing an IT infrastructure continues to grow, customers are in need of ever greater flexibility and precision in managing their computing resources," said Dr. Sharad Mehrotra, CEO of Fabric7. "The fabric computing architecture delivers a new standard of price/performance for x86 servers, and Virtual Iron's enterprise-class virtualization and management solutions will further enable our systems to redefine Verb 1. redefine - give a new or different definition to; "She redefined his duties" define, delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify - determine the essential quality of 2. the economics of enterprise computing to our customers' benefit." "The combined solution offered by Fabric7 and Virtual Iron, powered by AMD Virtualization See AMD-V. [TM] technology - should prove invaluable to users deploying enterprise-class applications," said Randy Allen James Randall (Randy) Allen (born January 26, 1965 in Milton, Florida) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'8" forward from Florida State University, Allen was never drafted by an NBA team but did manage to play two years in the NBA form 1988 to 1990 for the , corporate vice president, server & workstation division, AMD (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AMD). "AMD has made significant strides in advancing performance-per-watt and x86 virtualization x86 virtualization is the method by which x86-based "guest" operating systems are run under another "host" x86 operating system, with little or no modification of the guest OS. The x86 processor architecture did not originally meet the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements. leadership with the AMD Opteron processor featuring AMD Virtualization, which greatly enhances the flexibility, scalability and compelling economics of enterprise computing. We look forward to extending these benefits to users through our partnership with both Fabric7 and Virtual Iron." About Fabric7 Systems Fabric7 Systems designs and builds enterprise servers that integrate compute and networking technologies into a dynamic fabric of IT resources. Fabric7 delivers a fundamental breakthrough in server design that provides its customers the flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity required to meet their changing business needs. Fabric7 is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, visit the company's website at www.fabric7.com or call +1 (650) 210-0100. About Virtual Iron Software, Inc. Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software solutions for creating and managing virtual infrastructure. Its software enables companies to dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of managing and operating their enterprise data center. Virtual Iron delivers advanced virtualization capabilities that exploit industry standards, open source economics and built-in hardware-assisted acceleration. Organizations use Virtual Iron's software for consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, workload management and policy-based automation to deliver significant improvements in utilization, manageability and agility. Virtual Iron is privately held and based in Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 105,167. It is the fourth largest city in the state. It and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County. . For more information, visit www.virtualiron.com or email info@virtualiron.com. Fabric7, Fabric7 Q160, Fabric7 Q80, Q-par, Q-Visor and the Fabric7 logo are trademarks of Fabric7 Systems, Inc. Other names used are for informational purposes only and are trademarks of their respective owners. AMD, the AMD arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof, and AMD Virtualization are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
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