Virtualization software vendors are continuing to work with hardware vendors in the effort of gaining virtualization market share and additional marketing traction within the industry. With approximately 94% of servers still without server virtualization technology on them, partnerships with these hardware vendors will go a long way. Virtual Iron Software recently announced that it has achieved advanced partner Virtualization software vendors are continuing to work with hardware vendors in the effort of gaining virtualization market share and additional marketing traction within the industry. With approximately 94% of servers still without server virtualization technology on them, partnerships with these hardware vendors will go a long way.Virtual Iron Software recently announced that it has achieved advanced partner status within IBM’s PartnerWorld program. Doing so will give Virtual Iron enhanced levels of marketing, sales, technical enablement and skill development support from IBM. The advanced partnership status will also give Virtual Iron access to more comprehensive technical, business and marketing services from IBM to help further accelerate the development and support of Virtual Iron’s solutions across IBM’s computing platforms.Additionally, Virtual Iron achieved two new certifications on IBM platforms. These include IBM “Ready for Grid” (certifying Virtual Iron’s interoperability with IBM’s standards-based, flexible and scalable suite of software and hardware products for Grid Computing) and IBM “Ready for DB2” (validating its software for compatibility with IBM DB2). If you still haven’t tried Virtual Iron, the company is offering a free version of Virtual Iron 4.2 for download. And you can get it, here. Software Development