Virtual Iron Broadens Offering with Version 2.0; Latest Release Adds Support for the AMD Opteron(TM) Processor and IBM BladeCenter Servers and Extends Policy-Based Management Capabilities.LOWELL, Mass. -- Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of data center 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, today announced general availability of Version 2.0 of its software platform. The new release responds to growing market demand for Virtual Iron's software by adding support for the 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 and IBM BladeCenter The IBM BladeCenter is IBM's blade server architecture. History Originally introduced in 2002, based on engineering work started in 1999, the IBM BladeCenter was a relative late comer to the blade market. servers. It also expands Virtual Iron's policy-based resource and workload management capabilities to further streamline data center operations. Virtual Iron offers enterprise-class virtualization and management at the data center level. While first generation technologies are limited to working on single-machines, or with small clusters of machines, Virtual Iron manages the aggregation and sharing of a large number of server, storage and network elements. This automates many time-intensive manual tasks such as provisioning new servers, moving capacity to handle dynamic workloads, and responding to ongoing availability issues. The resulting benefits include reduced data center complexity, increased agility and resource utilization, and dramatically reduced capital and operating expenses Operating expenses The amount paid for asset maintenance or the cost of doing business, excluding depreciation. Earnings are distributed after operating expenses are deducted. . Version 2.0 responds to increasing market demand for the Virtual Iron solution running on the AMD Opteron, the world's first x86 processor for both 32-bit and 64-bit computing. Enterprises can now use Virtual Iron with both single and Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors, giving customers a choice of industry-standard processors to help drive price performance and improve data center manageability. "We see a number of enterprises looking to leverage Virtual Iron on the AMD Opteron processor in their data centers," said Joe Menard, corporate vice president, Software Strategy for AMD. "Virtual Iron's support for the AMD Opteron processor, combined with the throughput and performance advantages of AMD's Direct Connect Architecture technology, help provide customers the flexibility and efficiency of a virtualized environment, and at the same time reduce total cost of ownership." Version 2.0 also extends Virtual Iron's support for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) servers to include BladeCenter. With integrated 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 interconnects, networking and built-in redundancy, IBM BladeCenter provides a flexible, high performance foundation for utility computing (1) Pay-per-usage processing provided by a service organization that uses its own computers and facilities. Customers access the computers via a private network or over the Internet and are charged according to how much computing time they use, such as CPU seconds, minutes or hours. initiatives. Virtual Iron's latest release virtualizes all BladeCenter components, including processors, memory, storage and networking, to speed deployments and migrations, while also providing outstanding scalability. Virtual Iron's policy-based management See policy management. also makes use of health status information from BladeCenter components to allow automated actions in the event of failures. Virtual Iron is also delivering new levels of flexibility and operational efficiency for managing complex, enterprise-level workloads such as J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. servers with Version 2.0. The software demonstrated excellent performance in a recent benchmark test, SPECjAppServer2004(R), which measures commercial J2EE application servers. The benchmark was created by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit organization that aims to produce "fair, impartial and meaningful benchmarks for computers." SPEC was founded in 1988 and their goal is to ensure that the marketplace has a fair and useful set of metrics to (SPEC). "The enhancements we've delivered in Version 2.0 are a natural extension of our core capabilities and a direct response to customer demand," said Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer at Virtual Iron. "These enterprises are moving beyond single-server partitioning and leveraging the full power of data center virtualization and the dramatic gains it offers in agility, performance and operating cost. " About Virtual Iron Software, Inc. Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class, data center virtualization and management software solutions that enable companies to dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of managing and operating their data centers. The company serves large organizations in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , manufacturing, healthcare, government, retail and hosted services industries. Virtual Iron is privately held and based in Lowell, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.virtualiron.com or email info@virtualiron.com. AMD and AMD Opteron are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. IBM and BladeCenter are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. |
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