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Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP: I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...; Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Virtual Iron Chimes In: As I mentioned in the post, Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing, a number of companies contacted me in the hopes of presenting their view of Microsoft's Hyper-V announcement. This is the first of several posts on what they had to say. My friends at Virtual Iron; Tony...; Tags: Marketing, Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Virtual Iron partners with FalconStor: Virtual Iron partners with FalconStorWhats the big deal?Virtual Iron did the same thing with DataCore a few months back and they have even sold a number of customers together. Frankly, with the new Datacore and Virtual Iron packages, you get more for the money. This really isn't major news but...; Tags: Business structures, VI3, Virtual Iron, FalconStor, Virtual Iron partner, DataCore, partnership; Discussion threads 2008-01-12
Virtual Iron partners with FalconStor: In the not to distant past, I posted The dynamic duo of virtual storage and virtual processing that commented on a piece written by Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron. It's now clear that the paper was foreshadowing a partnership with FalconStor and, perhaps, other companies that focus on storage...; Tags: Storage Virtualization, Partnership, FalconStor, Virtual Iron, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-01-11
Virtual Iron 4.2 - Increased Support for Production Environments: The folks at Virtual Iron have just announced that they've added some important new features to an already very powerful virtualization environment. In addition to their previous focus on consolidation, agility, optimization and availability, Virtual Iron 4.2 adds features designed to improve network performance, increase platform support and expand the...; Tags: Environment, Virtual Server, Server, Virtual Machine, Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Open Source, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-12-11

The dynamic duo of virtual storage and virtual processing: I just read something published by my friends at Virtual Iron. Their new CEO, Ed Walsh, formally of EMC, presented at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco. It struck me as quite insightful. Here's a segment of what he had to say: The benefits of server virtualization...; Tags: Server, Virtual Iron, Functionality, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Virtual Iron offers "Once and Done" virtual server environment: Virtual Iron offers "Once and Done" virtual server environmentYou bet it would...... but unnecessarily on only HP and IBM...It's a startIt's only a start to be sure. It's a good idea that I hope will eventually extend to encompass the majority of system suppliers.; Tags: Server virtualization, Virtualization, virtual server environment, Virtual Iron, virtual server; Discussion threads 2007-10-17
Virtual Machine Benchmarks: A press release crossed my desk on September 6, 2007 from Virtual Iron concerning some very strong benchmark results. Here's a segment of their release.Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software, today announced its support for the latest Quad-Core IntelÂ® XeonÂ® Processor...; Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Processors, virtual machine, Dan Kusnetzky, Virtual Iron, Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300, virtualization performance, virtualization, quad-core; Blog posts 2007-09-10
A Quick Look at Virtual Iron V 4: Today Virtual Iron is announcing Virtual Iron version 4. John Thibault, President and CEO, and my old friend Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer, took time out of their very busy schedules to chat with me about the new release. I've always been impressed with the innovative thinking shown by...; Tags: Virtualization, Virtual Iron, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-09-05
Hobson's EMT saves time and money with Virtual Iron: I had an opportunity to ask Patrick McFadin,Â Director of Engineering,Â Hobsons EMT, a few questions about how his organization is using tools from Virtual Iron. A highly edited, slightly sanitized version of our conversation follows.Please tell me who you are and a bit about your organization?Patrick is the Director of Engineering...; Tags: 64-bit, Dan Kusnetzky, Virtual Iron, Hobson, EMT; Blog posts 2007-08-10
Virtual Iron (iso): Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software for server virtualization & virtual infrastructure management. The product offers comparable capabilities and performance to established proprietary offerings, for just one-fifth of the cost. Ideal for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, disaster recovery, and capacity management. Version 3.7 includes support for virtual disks and iSCSI support....; Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Consolidation, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Modems, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Management, Components; Software downloads 2007-06-15
Virtual Iron Update: Virtual Iron VI has released version 3.6 of their product, which is cleverly named "Virtual Iron" by the way. Ive been in communication with these folks for years and have always thought that the technology theyre offering is both powerful and innovative. Whats mew? Version 3.6...; Tags: Managing virtualized environments, virtual machine software, virtualization; Blog posts 2007-05-14
Virtual Iron 3.1 Enterprise Edition Data Center Virtualization Software - For HP ProLiant Blade Servers: Virtual Iron 3.1 Enterprise Edition, when installed on the HP BladeSystem with an HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000), creates a virtualized data center model supporting both Linux and Microsoft Windows guest operating systems and enables live migration of executing operating systems between physical server nodes. Virtual Iron 3.1...; Tags: Blade Server, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtual Iron, HP Compaq ProLiant, Data Centers, Servers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-03-01
The Charlotte Observer Looks to Make Headlines With Intel Multi-Core Processors and Virtual Iron: The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina's largest daily circulation newspaper, needed to reduce data center costs while improving the overall responsiveness of mission-critical applications. Legacy systems running on expensive, proprietary hardware were no longer meeting their needs in terms of cost and performance. The Charlotte Observer put both Intel and Virtual...; Tags: Multi-core Processor, Performance, Virtual Iron, Intel Corp., Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Case studies 2006-12-12
Virtual Iron expands management to others' turf: Virtual Iron expands management to others' turfI still hate ironing .; Tags: Virtual Iron; Discussion threads 2005-08-20
Virtual Iron's software hits the market: Virtual Iron's software hits the marketHuh!I hate ironing.; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Virtual Iron, software; Discussion threads 2005-08-12
Virtualize Your Data Center With IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux and Virtual Iron's VFe: Flexibility and Efficient Resource Utilization Through Hardware Resource Virtualization: Virtual Iron's VFe product provides an enterprise-class virtualization solution that enables DB2 customers to achieve the highest levels of datacenter utilization and flexibility. VFe accomplishes this by providing a dynamic infrastructure that enables customers to transform their existing server hardware infrastructure into a single, sharable computing resource. This dynamic infrastructure...; Tags: Data Center, Server, IBM DB2 Universal Database, IBM DB2, Virtual Iron, IBM Corp., VFe, Data Centers, Virtualization, Linux, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2005-05-01
Virtual iron comes to the rescue: At Demo and LinuxWorld, the well endowed ($20 million is VC funding) Virtual Iron formerly Katana rolled out its Virtual Iron VFe, a virtualization platform for x86 processors, memory and storage systems running Linux from Red Hat and Novell SuSE Linux. Virtual Iron VFe taps into what I believe is the most significant...; Tags: Virtual Iron; Blog posts 2005-02-16

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Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux: Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...; Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users: Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...; Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-07-25