3Leaf Systems™ (www.3leafsystems.com), a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, announced the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O server, was named a Best of VMworld Award Winner at VMworld 2007, held last week in San Francisco. Winners were selected by an independent team of judges who reviewed and evaluated over 120 products for their innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

“We are honored to be recognized again by the industry for providing an innovative and reliable solution that brings real value to the enterprise data center,” said Sash Sunkara, chief business officer at 3Leaf Systems. “Being recognized as a Best of VMworld Award finalist provides further validation for the 3Leaf V-8000 and its ability to deliver mainframe-class availability and reliability for commodity servers while optimizing data center resources and reducing costs.”

The 3Leaf V-8000’s rich feature set maximizes server resource utilization and scalability, speeds up the deployment and provisioning of new servers, and provides high availability and centralized management. Significant capital costs savings from deploying the V-8000 can exceed 50 percent, and operations savings can be close to 60 percent.