VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced that its Cloud Operations Manager has won the Bronze Award in SearchServerVirtualization.com’s 2011 Products of the Year awards. The Cloud Operations Manager was honored in the Virtualization Management category for exhibiting innovation, performance, functionality, value, manageability and ease of integration.

Announced this week, 2011 award winners were selected by the editors of TechTarget’s Data Center and Virtualization Media Group. The award recognizes companies that stand apart from the pack and provide exceptional benefits for IT shops of all sizes.

“VMTurbo deserves recognition for Cloud Operations Manager’s innovation, ease of implementation and excellent value. Their product deploys as a virtual appliance and offers completely real-time data, which assists in capacity planning and dynamic workload orchestration. It also supports multiple hypervisors and multiple tenets,” according to SearchServerVirtualization.com 2011 Products of the Year judges.

The VMTurbo platform first launched in August 2010 and since that time more than 4,000 cloud service providers and enterprises worldwide – including British Telecom, Omnicare and L-3 Communications – have deployed the platform to gain greater control, prevent performance issues and optimize utilization across their virtual infrastructure.

"We are honored that our product was recognized by SearchServerVirtualization.com as one of 2011's most exceptional products," said Derek Slayton, vice president of marketing at VMTurbo. "This award and our tremendous customer traction in 2011 is testament to the innovativeness of our platform. We look forward to continuing to enable our customers to be more successful in their existing virtualized environments and confident in adopting cloud infrastructure as we head into 2012."

For more information about the SearchServerVirtualization.com 2011 Product of the Year Awards and to view the complete list of winners visit http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/guides/Products-of-the-Year-2011.