Quoting Virtual Iron's Blog

When evaluating partitioning options, most companies tend to choose either hardware or software partitioning (software partitioning = server virtualization). At Virtual Iron, we think you should have the option of both hardware and software partitioning in one fairly inexpensive system. Of course, hardware with "sort-of" software partitioning has been an expensive undertaking for most companies. Not anymore.

Earlier this month, we announced Virtual Iron 3.1 - at a fraction of the cost (1/5 to be more precise, that engineer in me always comes out) of VMware with comparable features. Just this morning, we announced a partnership with Fabric7, who designs and builds really cool enterprise-class servers with hardware partitioning. Our combined offering optimizes both your physical and virtual infrastructure, reducing your data center costs and complexity. Now, you can have both enterprise-class hardware and enterprise-class virtualization at a fraction of what you would expect to pay.

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