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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.

Organizations ranging from small to medium-size businesses to large enterprises have deployed server virtualization solutions to consolidate the large number of single purpose, single application x 86 servers. Many of these same organizations are also turning to server virtualization to accelerate the development and testing of applications so that new applications can be deployed and provisioned rapidly with a high degree of confidence.

With today's powerful and energy efficient dual core and quad core x86 server platforms, IT users are able to run dozens of virtual machines on a single physical server. The leading candidates for virtualization include:

Workloads consuming a small server footprint Infrastructure(Web, DHCP, firewall, file print servers) Messaging, small or partitionable databases

Servers with high rates of reconfiguration Development and testing servers Staging and proof of concept servers

Workloads with high uptime requirements Share redundant elements across many workloads

With consolidation efforts underway, many IT users are looking to leverage server virtualization solutions for more advanced use cases such as capacity management and workload balancing, business continuity and utility computing.

IT industry research firm Gartner, Inc. named Virtualization a “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008” and defines the next generation of Virtualization solutions as Virtualization 2.0: “With the addition of automation technologies – with service-level, policy-based active management – resource efficiency can improve dramatically, flexibility can become automatic based on requirements, and services can be managed holistically, ensuring high levels of resiliency.”

Virtual Iron has been delivering policy-based active management since 2006 based on our LiveMigration™ technology including dynamic capacity load balancing, automated high availability and disaster recovery.