The Virtual Iron platform consists of three components: 1. Virtual Iron's Virtualization Manager provides a central place to control and automate virtual resources. It streamlines tasks that are normally highly manual and time-intensive and significantly reduce data center costs and complexity. 2. Virtual Iron's Virtualization Services are deployed automatically on bare-metal, industry-standard servers without requiring software installation or management. These features streamline data center management and reduce operational costs. 3. Open Source Virtualization, based on an open source hypervisor derived from the open source community project, is the first software loaded when the physical server boots. The hypervisor manages all hardware resources and leverages the hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities built into Intel and AMD processors to create an abstraction layer between physical hardware and virtual resources.
Kelly Hair on 17 Apr 10"If Gartner's (News - Alert) most-recent survey of enterprise CIOs is correct, there has been a fairly significant shift of priorities from 2009. Where the top priority in 2009 was business process improvement, the top 2010 priority is "virtualization." Where the number-two priority in 2009 was "reducing cost," the number-two priority for 2010 is "cloud computing.""