LivePower is among the many enterprise level features offered in Virtual Iron Version 4.4. LivePower optimises power consumption by monitoring resource utilisation in the virtual data center. When there is excess CPU capacity, LivePower consolidates virtual machines onto fewer physical servers and shuts down the remaining devices based on pre-defined policies. When the virtual machine load increases beyond pre-defined thresholds, LivePower turns physical servers back on and live migrates virtual machines to rebalance the virtual data center to ensure resource requirements and service levels are met.

 

Zycko's Group Sales Director, David Galton-Fenzi, said: "LivePower technology is a significant development in virtualisation software and will greatly reduce electrical power consumption, with energy savings passed along to users. This feature will be of great interest to the EMEA markets as businesses continue to pursue green initiatives.

 

"It is these impressive energy savings that will set Virtual Iron apart from its competitors in the virtualisation market and we are looking forward to working with Virtual Iron to deliver the savings on to new customers."

 

Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales for Virtual Iron, Bill Simpson, stated: "LivePower provides additional capabilities for small and medium sized enterprises to go green, save money and exemplifies the functional depth and overall value of the Virtual Iron solution.

 

"In the current global economy, a low cost solution coupled with the LivePower features enables customers to do more with less. We look forward to working closely with Zycko to provide the EMEA market with more choices in best in class virtualisation solutions," continued Simpson.