Back in November, we talked about how the image conversion race added a new player - Invirtus. The company had announced a new beta product, their Enterprise VM Converter product which transforms physical machines into virtual machines.

Invirtus Enterprise VM Converter is the second virtualization product to be introduced by Invirtus. Their award-winning VM Optimizer product was introduced in November 2005, and according to Invirtus, it is currently being used by thousands of companies worldwide to create smaller, faster VMs.

When talking about their latest image conversion tool, Tom Edwards, Invirtus Founder and CEO, says "We have received an abundance of positive feedback regarding the speed, quality and the intuitive nature of Invirtus Enterprise VM Converter." He continued, "We combined customer feedback with our proprietary optimization technology to enable customers to convert physical systems into VMs faster than other conversion products. Our customers tell us this will result in significant time and money savings."

Customers like Shawn Partridge, Director of Information Services at Cascade Die Casting Group, Inc., are excited about the ability to automatically transform many remote servers at once: "Not only is the tool incredibly easy to use, with no setup or hardware requirements, but also the remote conversions take place directly, making it perfect for satellite offices. I can connect at home and initiate the conversion directly from host server to destination server with no traffic over my VPN, just install and run!"

Using the product to convert production Microsoft Exchange and GIS database servers with excellent results, Randy Cress, Network Administrator of Rowan County, North Carolina says, "The drag-and-drop interface is extremely easy to use and the conversions happen very quickly." He also finds the ability to switch HAL types and the ability to select the drop-off network location without mapping drives very beneficial.

Recently named by Gartner as one of the ten "Cool Vendors for 2006", Invirtus is trying to continue that trend next year. The company claims to be developing a series of additional virtualization products for release during the first quarter of 2007.

Posted by David Marshall on December 29, 2006 02:35 PM