Hoping to appeal to the small and medium sized organizations looking to deploy operating system virtualization, SWsoft just announced a turn-key offering of software and support for businesses for a price below the $1200 mark. And they are appropriately calling this new package the Virtuozzo Starter Pack. The Virtuozzo Enterprise Starter Pack, priced at $1,198, enables new users to try out OS virtualization tech Hoping to appeal to the small and medium sized organizations looking to deploy operating system virtualization, SWsoft just announced a turn-key offering of software and support for businesses for a price below the $1200 mark. And they are appropriately calling this new package the Virtuozzo Starter Pack.The Virtuozzo Enterprise Starter Pack, priced at $1,198, enables new users to try out OS virtualization technology and it is perfect for a small server consolidation project or pilot deployment. The company claims that the software can be downloaded, installed and up and running in just minutes. The Virtuozzo Starter Pack for either Windows or Linux allows up to four virtual environments and includes: a single or dual CPU server license full management toolset for the starter pack server one year of Silver level support and maintenance “We’re offering a friction-less way for organizations to discover OS virtualization and Virtuozzo for the first time,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO, SWsoft. “The starter pack has the full range of capabilities and tools of the full Virtuozzo product at an attractive price point. Users can get comfortable with the technology, gain experience its advantages and see how it complements their consolidation projects.” The Virtuozzo Enterprise Starter Pack comes with full capabilities, including the company’s VZP2V (physical to virtual) tool that is intended to assist IT administrators with migrating their dedicated physical servers to a Virtuozzo virtual server environment. The bundle also includes a management toolset to help easily and completely manage the Starter Pack server including the ability to provision, monitor, and perform backup and recovery operations. To make things easier, the starter pack also provides an upgrade path so that an administrator can ultimately migrate to the full Virtuozzo product if needed. In a virtualization market that is expected to grow to $15 billion worldwide by 2009, SWsoft has been cited as growing faster than any other vendor in the overall market. Last year, SWsoft grew revenues from its Virtuozzo and Parallels virtualization product lines by a remarkable 734 percent. With this current announcement, it seems as though the company may not be completely satisfied with those statistics. Opening up the product in this way may very well make the solution even more attractive to the SMB market, and ultimately, give SWsoft an even bigger slice of that $15 billion pie. Available immediately, you can go here to find out more or purchase the product. Software Development