Founded in 2003, 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. The company is led by an experienced management team and backed by top-tier investors including Highland Capital, Matrix Partners, Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and SAP Ventures.

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.

The server virtualization market is experiencing rapid growth today, but current market penetration of the market is still less than 10 percent. The three biggest obstacles to adoption are complexity, cost, and installation difficulty according to industry analysts. Virtual Iron addresses this gap by providing users with all the benefits of production-class server virtualization without the cost and complexity. Companies of all sizes, and especially small and medium size enterprises (SME), now have an honest choice for production-class server virtualization and are turning to Virtual Iron because its easier to use and easier to afford.

In many cases, virtualization is deployed as part of a larger initiative that may involve a data center assessment, a hardware refresh, physical to virtual migration, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, capacity planning, and policy-based automation. Because of this, Virtual Iron has adopted a 100% channel distribution strategy for its business. This approach makes it easier for our customers to buy complete solutions from our value-added channel partners. These may include servers, storage area networks, storage software and professional services as part of their server virtualization initiative. The company is also well recognized by the industry and partners with most of the major processor, hardware, operating system and other infrastructure vendors, including AMD, Compellent, Dell, EqualLogic, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Novell, PlateSpin and Sun.