Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com),today announced higher education institutions such as Jefferson DavisCommunity College and the University of Pennsylvania have successfullydeployed the company's virtualization software to address operational,academic and research computing requirements. By leveragingenterprise-class server virtualization and management capabilities, VirtualIron's higher education customers can quickly streamline their ITinfrastructure, reduce power and cooling costs and support businesscontinuity and green computing efforts at a fraction of the cost ofcomparable offerings.

"Our team needed to control IT infrastructure expenses while ensuring keyapplications remained available and effective for our user base of humanresources employees," said Chris Blickley, Manager of InformationTechnology for UPenn Human Resources. "With Virtual Iron we have been ableto consolidate servers to not only save money on physical space, but alsoprovide better system responsiveness and uptime. We are currentlyprojecting a 37 percent savings on maintenance and upgrade costs alone."

Jefferson Davis Community College is another higher education customer thathas reaped the benefits of virtualization. With a hybrid environment ofMicrosoft and open source software, the school needed a virtualizationsolution that could support both operating systems. By implementing VirtualIron, Director of Technology and IS, Anthony Hardy was able to streamlinesupport for the server environment and significantly increase usage at onethird the cost of comparable offerings.

Additional customer success stories can be found atwww.virtualiron.com/about-us/customers/.

"When cost is the enemy, as it is for the average IT department in thehigher education market right now, server virtualization is one technologythat allows them to serve their organizations more flexibly while reducingcosts," said Ed Walsh, President and CEO of Virtual Iron. "By providingeasy-to-use and easy-to-afford server virtualization solutions, VirtualIron enables organizations to become more strategic in how they maximize ITresources and ensure business continuity."