Xcedex (www.xcedex.com), the premier provider of virtualization planning software and solutions for managing virtual infrastructure in the data center today announced that its virtualization solutions have surpassed over 1,000 engagements. This milestone, obtained in the third quarter of 2008, was driven by the explosive growth of virtualization in the market over the last 4 years.

Xcedex experienced strong growth across all industry verticals with increased business in Banking, Education, Insurance, Transportation, and Manufacturing. Xcedex was engaged to assist these clients in areas centered around reduction and containment of costs, optimization of their Information Technology infrastructure, and solutions that address business mobility and agility.

"The success Xcedex has achieved over the last six years stems from our unique approach with our X-Factor Planning and Design Software that doesn't simply stop with the analysis or assessment," says Chris Taylor, Executive Vice President/Co-Founder, Xcedex. It generates specific recommendations on which servers and storage devices to virtualize and it even predicts the performance characteristics of the resulting virtual servers and storage devices along with providing a holistic view of virtualization. This enables organizations to proactively plan and design virtualization solutions that achieve the promise of operational benefits and cost savings of virtualization.

"The algorithms and analytics behind X-Factor are the culmination of 6 years of work and countless successful virtualization engagements at some of America's best known companies," states David Payne, Chief Technology Office/Founder, Xcedex. As one Xcedex partner described it, X-Factor is the "easy-button" for quickly generating a reliable, actionable set of recommendations and a roadmap regarding virtualization of server and storage environments."