Easily accessible from Virtual Iron's website and at the training webpage(http://www.virtualiron.com/training), the vignettes consist of nearlytwenty videos ranging from product demonstrations to detailed virtualinfrastructure configuration for Virtual Iron's VI-Center and beyond. Thevignettes, emphasizing step-by-step procedures while providing underlyingconcepts, offer instruction on iSCSI basics, VLANs, PlateSpin P2Vconversion, deployment strategies for high availability, along with othercomplex topics.

"Like many IT professionals, I have a finite amount of time I can devote tostudying best practices among the range of technologies deployed in my ITenvironment," said Anthony Hardy, director of technology and IS atJefferson Davis Community College. "With the vignettes from Virtual Iron Ican watch the tutorials at anytime and quickly get the information I needwithout spending hours in scheduled training seminars or pouring overproduct documentation."

Virtual Iron's training tools further differentiate the company from itscompetitors who neither provide equivalent training for their coreproducts, much less the detailed demonstrations for supportingcomplementary technologies such as iSCSI or PlateSpin. The vignettes areso intuitive that often customers will blur the line between evaluation andproduction, integrating some of their production servers during theevaluation period or immediately after purchase, thereby speeding the ROI.

"Today IT department budgets are being stretched to unprecedented limitswith no dollars being allocated for training," said Chris Buzzy, principaltrainer at Virtual Iron Software. "Especially with our SME customers,we're finding not only do they not have budget for travel and training, butheavier workloads resulting from slimmer staffs have left them with littletime for support calls. These customers need self-starting tools that areavailable when and where they need them."

For resellers, Virtual Iron's virtual vignettes significantly acceleratethe sales process. Prospects with an interest in virtualization can bepointed to the training site to learn about the core feature set and beguided through the configuration of their own Virtual Iron environment.Further, prospects and customers that view the vignettes are far lesslikely to need initial support, and when they do, the questions andproblems are generally limited to advanced topics and not simple deploymentissues.

About Virtual Iron Software, Inc. - True Server Virtualization for Everyone

Virtual Iron provides server virtualization software that reduces the costand complexity of operating and managing IT infrastructure fororganizations of all sizes. Leveraging industry standards, open source, andbuilt-in hardware-assisted acceleration, Virtual Iron provides a completeand cost-effective solution including VI-Center, an intelligent virtualinfrastructure management platform. Over 2,000 customer organizationsworldwide leverage Virtual Iron today to support a broad range of datacenter initiatives including server consolidation, virtual servermanagement, dev/test optimization, business continuity and virtual desktopinfrastructure (VDI) enablement. The software is available exclusivelythrough Virtual Iron's Channel One partner network. Trial versions of thesoftware are also available for free download at www.virtualiron.com/free.For more information, visit www.virtualiron.com or e-mailinfo@virtualiron.com.

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