Virtual Iron Software and Fabric7 Systems announced a new business agreement and partnership that should help joint customers maximize the capabilities of Fabric7's enterprise servers with Virtual Iron's virtualization and management software solutions.

Under the agreement, Fabric7 will bundle Virtual Iron's virtual infrastructure management software with its high-performance, AMD Opteron processor-based servers, to provide customers with maximum flexibility and reliability when deploying and managing enterprise-class applications in a virtual environment. The companies have also agreed to develop joint product offerings for users and to collaborate on marketing and sales.

According to both companies, they focus on providing customers with flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity in managing their IT environments. And the new joint solution should enable companies to take advantage of these benefits in both their physical and virtual environments. The goal is to allow users to be able to roll out server consolidation projects more easily as well as quickly realize substantial return on investment. The partnership leverages the companies' common focus on enterprise and line-of-business (LOB) workloads in the rapidly expanding x86-64 server marketplace. The joint solution also takes advantage of native support for AMD's hardware-assisted virtualization (AMD-V) to achieve higher levels of efficiency and utilization.

Fabric7's enterprise servers leverage a unique architecture, called fabric computing, to combine processing and I/O resources into a flexible and highly efficient network fabric that increases flexibility and utilization within both individual servers and across multiple machines in the data center. With Virtual Iron, Fabric7 will be able to further extend the value of its solutions by enabling customers to maximize the utilization of the company's hardware-partitionable processor and memory complexes with a highly advanced and flexible virtualization and management suite.

According to Virtual Iron's CEO, John C. Thibault, "Virtual Iron is committed to delivering enterprise-class performance and reliability to its customers." He continued, "Our joint solution with Fabric7 enables customers to virtualize mission-critical applications and workloads with confidence and dramatically improve data center efficiency and productivity. The cost savings and operational benefits are dramatic and immediate."

Posted by David Marshall on December 24, 2006 07:53 PM