VKernel 2009 Growth Exceeds 160% and User Base Grows to Over 10,000

Growth reflects demand for capacity management in virtualized data centers

Andover, MA (PRWEB) January 28, 2010

VKernel, award winning provider of virtualization management tools for VMware and Microsoft virtualized environments, today announced record customer and revenue growth in 2009. Total bookings for 2009 more than doubled over 2008 and the number of users more than tripled. VKernel attributed the growth to rapid market adoption of its Capacity Analyzer, Optmization Pack and Chargeback solutions.

Other VKernel 2009 highlights include:

• Launched the award winning Optimization Pack.
• Announced Capacity Analyzer support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V.
• Expanded to over 10,000 VMware Administrator users.
• Doubled the number of sales and marketing employees.
• Moved its headquarters to Andover, MA
• Won SearchServerVirtualization Silver Award for 2009 Product of the Year and Virtualization Review Readers Choice Awards for Virtualization Management categories.

“We attribute our success in 2009 to our ability to execute against a compelling vision – providing virtual server administrators and their managers with high value management tools that are extremely easy to deploy and use at a very compelling price.”, said Alex Bakman, CEO. “Users love the fact that they get actionable answers from our products without the ‘bloat ware’ of functionality they will never use that traditionally comes from systems management solutions.”

About VKernel
VKernel develops virtualization management tools specifically designed for systems administrators and their managers. Delivered as virtual appliances, VKernel products are extremely easy to deploy and use, immediately provide actionable answers, and are offered a fraction of the price of traditional systems management solutions. Over 10,000 systems administrators and their managers use VKernel products to manage the balance between capacity utilization and performance in their VMware and Microsoft virtual server environments. VKernel customers are quickly able to reclaim wasted server and storage capacity, increase utilization rates and performance, and significantly reduce their requirement for additional hardware.

Media Contact:
Evan Karp
ekarp(at)vkernel(dot)com
+1 978 289 6308

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