• Native virtualization is a new approach to virtualization that improves upon the efficiency of previous approaches and delivers higher performance at a lower cost.
• New solutions based on a hypervisor derived from the Xen open source project increase customer choice and minimize the risk of proprietary lock up.
• Virtualization assistance, now available in hardware, specifically in the new processors from AMD and Intel, further improves efficiency and performance.
• Lastly, advances in virtual infrastructure management tools will improve the manageability of virtual environments and reduce operational costs related to maintaining them.

Virtual Iron is focused on delivering advanced virtualization and management capabilities that leverage these new technologies to dramatically change the economics of virtualization. Organizations are using Virtual Iron's software for consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, capacity management and policy-based automation to deliver dramatic improvements in utilization, manageability and agility. The company works with IT organizations to transform the data center into a dynamic, efficient, pool of shared computing resources that are configured and managed via software. Virtual Iron delivers an open and economically attractive alternative to proprietary virtualization solutions by leveraging an open source hypervisor and supporting virtualization of enterprise-class applications without modification.

Now is the time to start creating a virtual data center and a "dynamic infrastructure" that will improve the operational efficiency, utilization and agility of the data center. IT organizations should look for solutions like Virtual Iron that leverage the advances and new technologies described in this paper to further improve upon the ROI of their virtualization initiatives.