VKernel Corporation, a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable virtualization management and optimization software, today announced that the company has moved its headquarters from Portsmouth, N.H. to Andover, Mass. Having recently completed its second round of financing from Longworth Venture Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and Polaris Venture Partners, the company chose to move to Massachusetts for partnership and recruiting opportunities.

"We anticipate a continued recruitment drive over the foreseeable future. By moving to Massachusetts, we gain access to a much larger base of experienced, high technology personnel," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. "Having recently completed our second round of funding and experiencing a huge increase in product demand based on our new Optimization Pack, our timing couldn't be better."

VKernel virtualization management and optimization tools solve a number of critical data center challenges impacting IT staffs today. Delivered as a VMA (Virtual Management Appliance), VKernel software helps VMware users quickly optimize their virtual environments by increasing VM densities, improving the utilization of expensive resources, and managing VM sprawl.

VKernel currently supports VMware ESX and vSphere, with plans underway to support Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XEN. The company's current products include:

• Capacity Analyzer - proactively and predicatively monitor shared capacity resources to prevent current and future problems and optimize the environment
• Optimization Pack - collection of management and optimization applets to help users quickly reclaim unused server and storage resources -        delivering an instant ROI
• Chargeback - provide instant cost visibility and implement a chargeback processes