Virtual Iron Releases Version 3.1
Virtual Iron Releases Version 3.1
By Brian Ducharme
published: Monday, December 11 2006

VSM speaks with Mike Grandinetti, Chief Marketing Officer for Virtual Iron Software about the GA release of version 3.1 with Support for Windows, Two customer stories, and a Free Enterprise-Ready alternative to VMware
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Podcast Summary:
Length: 18:37

  1. Introduction
  2. General Availability of version 3.1
  3. First Commercial Alternative to VMware
  4. Support for 32 & 64 bit Windows
  5. Up to 96 GB of Memory
  6. VMware is too expensive
  7. Full Enterprise edition at $499 per socket
  8. 20% less than VMware
  9. Free Enterprise class virtualization
  10. Mobius Management Systems
  11. The Charlotte Observer
  12. Support for 32 processors in Enterprise Edition
  13. Free product supports up to 16 processors
  14. VMware VAR’s under contract with Virtual Iron
  15. Virtual Iron can save you money
  16. Download two free versions
  17. Closing


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Virtual Iron Releases Version 3.1 with Windows Support and Delivers Free Enterprise-Ready Alternative to VMware


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Mike Grandinetti
Chief Marketing Officer
Grandinetti has spent 15 years as a senior executive at five venture- backed technology companies. He helped lead the first four to successful exits for their investors. He co-led Raptor through a successful IPO and its designation as the Fastest Growing Software Company in the US, contributed to Viewlogic’s IPO, and was part of the senior executive team that recently merged Yantra with AT&T. He is now a key member of the executive team at Virtual Iron. He has been instrumental in not only launching and rapidly growing several emerging technology companies but also in identifying and establishing new market and product categories, successfully launching multiple new product lines and in creating important strategic partnerships. In addition to his role at Virtual Iron, Grandinetti holds a faculty appointment as Senior Lecturer in the Practice of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is a long serving judge in the MIT $100K Global Entrepreneurship Competition. He sits on the Advisory Board of Flagship Ventures (Cambridge, MA), Echelon Ventures (Boston, MA) and SEED Capital (Denmark). Early in his career, he served as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company. Grandinetti received his BS in Engineering, magna cum laude, from Rutgers, where he was named to the National Engineering Honor Society, and his MBA from Yale, where he was named the Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar and was the recipient of the Procter and Gamble Marketing Leadership Award as well as a Yale Teaching Fellowship.

About Virtual Iron Software, Inc.
Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software solutions for creating and managing virtual infrastructure. Its software enables companies to dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of managing and operating their enterprise data center. Virtual Iron delivers advanced virtualization capabilities that exploit industry standards, open source economics and built-in hardware-assisted acceleration. Organizations use Virtual Iron’s software for consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, capacity management and policy-based automation to deliver significant improvements in utilization, manageability and agility. Virtual Iron is privately held and based in Lowell, Massachusetts. For more information, visit http://www.virtualiron.com or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
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