SWsoft Announces Industry's First Combined Operating System-Level And Hardware-level Virtualizat
Thursday, 17 August 2006 by Michel Roth
SWsoft today announced its strategic vision to provide IT organizations with the tools to manage other virtualized computer resources from additional vendors.

All future releases of SWsoft's Virtuozzo management tools will include support for other vendors' virtualization solutions, including VMware virtual servers – giving data center managers unprecedented control of virtualized resources and enabling them to use various virtualization technologies without being tied to a single vendor's management tools.

SWsoft will introduce its first wave of support of another technology later this year with VMware virtual machine management. Xen and other technologies will soon follow.

Virtualization technology has the ability to increase data center density many times. By consolidating tens, or hundreds of virtual environments on one physical server, IT managers can reduce hardware costs, while increasing utilization. The ability to effectively manage and automate a growing catalog of virtual assets ensures that complexity is reduced and that virtualization delivers cost savings.

With Virtuozzo operating system (OS)-level server virtualization technology, a single Linux or Windows OS instance can be dynamically partitioned into multiple, highly-efficient virtual environments. The low overhead of Virtuozzo allows for demanding workloads such as database and application servers to run inside virtual environments with near-native performance and scalability.

Also, Virtuozzo is the first and only virtualization technology that addresses the challenge faced by today’s datacenters of operating systems sprawl where a number of different operating systems require support, maintenance and updating. Overall, Virtuozzo provides efficiency and manageability that result in the lowest total cost-of-ownership and fastest ROI for customers.

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