Virtual Iron announced that it has certified LeftHand Networks' open iSCSI storage area network software. Virtual Iron said combining the two products delivers enterprise-class server and storage virtualization capabilities to the mainstream market and enables more users to take advantage of the significant benefits of virtual infrastructure management. "Together, Virtual Iron and LeftHand Networks deliver affor Virtual Iron announced that it has certified LeftHand Networks’ open iSCSI storage area network software. Virtual Iron said combining the two products delivers enterprise-class server and storage virtualization capabilities to the mainstream market and enables more users to take advantage of the significant benefits of virtual infrastructure management.“Together, Virtual Iron and LeftHand Networks deliver affordable, production-ready virtualization and management solutions to the mainstream market,” said Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer at Virtual Iron Software. “The flexible and open architecture of SAN/iQ combined with Virtual Iron’s advanced virtual infrastructure management and live workload migration capabilities, enable users of all sizes to leverage the full power and ROI of virtual infrastructure management.” The combined products can offer the following capabilities: Virtual Iron enables the provisioning of new virtual machines to meet increasing application demands in the data center or to create new environments for software development and testing. SAN/iQ supports these capabilities by allowing users to clone storage volumes almost instantaneously and with minimal additional use of storage. This enables users to automatically allocate server and storage capacity to workloads as needed, without administrative intervention. Virtual Iron Live Migrate migrates running virtual machines with their operating systems and applications from one physical server to another with zero downtime and without complicated clustering environments. This allows users to balance workloads and perform server maintenance without affecting service levels. SAN/iQ offers similar storage functionality, allowing volumes to be moved from one storage system to another with zero downtime and without modifying the virtual environment. Virtual Iron LiveRecovery provides business continuity for all applications by automatically re-starting virtual machines affected by server failure without any downtime and without complicated clustering software. SAN/iQ architecture allows organizations to distribute their storage networks so that access to the virtual machines’ storage volumes can continue uninterrupted even through the loss of an entire data center. Software Development