Founded in 2003, Virtual Iron provides cost-effective, production-ready server virtualization software for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The solutions deliver comparable capabilities to VMware without the cost and complexity. The company is led by an experienced management team and backed by top-tier investors including Highland Capital, Matrix Partners, Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and SAP Ventures. Virtual Iron leverages the latest advances in hardware-assisted virtualization and open source to optimize performance and reduce virtualization overhead. Users deploy Virtual Iron’s solutions to address a variety of data center issues including server consolidation, development & test optimization, high availability and disaster recovery, dynamic capacity management and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) enablement.