CiRBA enables organizations to analyze and visually map the safest path to an optimally consolidated and virtualized data center.

CiRBA brings innovative and differentiated analytics to the world of virtualization.  Through its use of deep and detailed auditing, multi-dimensional analysis and color-coded correlation grids, CiRBA maps virtualization opportunities in the data center in ways never before possible.

CiRBA’s Transformational Analytics provides sophisticated multi-dimensional analysis that considers all of the critical business, configuration and workload constraints required to analyze complex environments for virtualization. By looking beyond workloads, organizations are empowered to prevent over-provisioning and truly optimize virtualized infrastructure by determining the best initial placements of virtual machines that respect regulatory requirements, security zones, maintenance windows, deep configuration settings and other considerations. CiRBA’s workload analysis is also unmatched providing advanced benchmarking, workload contention probability analysis and inter-platform analysis, including examining which workloads can be consolidated on to a mainframe.  Whether analyzing for VMware, MS Hyper-V, Xen or UNIX-based virtualization, CiRBA quickly finds the lowest risk, maximum impact transformation. 

Achieving a good initial placement for virtual machines is critical, but so is maintaining the order of the environment. CiRBA’s Operational Analytics enable organizations to govern and manage virtualized infrastructure through rules-based analysis. This analysis enables organizations to embrace “new school capacity planning and management” including controlling the motioning of VM’s to balance workloads and optimize utilization, while still respecting non-technical constraints that dictate what should or should not go together. CiRBA’s analysis also enables organizations to establish new business processes surrounding virtual machine creation and hardware procurement, curbing both virtual and physical sprawl.

SYS-CON’s Virtualization Journal’s “Readers’ Choice Awards”
SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today its first annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry" has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's virtualization awards will be given in 17 categories and award-winning products and services will be selected by Virtualization Journal readers.

Virtualization takes the cost and complexity out of IT, and can even help us reduce the CO2 footprint. IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to be on everyone's mind.

In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.

The tipping point, though - as anticipated by industry experts already back in 2005 - seems to be coming in 2008.

2008 will be the year of Virtualization with many companies offering their products and services, including: 3 Leaf, Acronis, Agilysys, Akorri, AMD, APC, Appistry, AppStream, Attune Systems, Avanade, BEA Systems, Blue Lane, Brocade, CA, Cassatt, Certeon, CiRBA, Citrix, ClearCube, Coraid, Crosswalk, DataDirect, DataSynapse, Digipede Technologies, Double-Take Software, Dynamic Network Factory, Ecora Software, Egenera, Embotics, EMC, Enigmatic, Enomaly, EqualLogic, Evault, eXludus Technologies, F5Networks, FalconStor, FastScale Technology, Fortisphere, GlobalFluency, Grid Dynamics, Hitachi, HP, IBM, InovaWave, Intel, KACE, Kidaro, Layeredtech, LeftHand Networks, Leostream, Mainline, ManageIQ, Marathon Technologies, Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, Mid-Atlantic Computers, Mindbridge Software, Ncomputing, NeoPath Networks, Neoware, Network Appliance, Neverfail, Novell, Opalis Software, OPNET Technologies, Opsware / HP, Oracle, Panologic, Parallels, PlateSpin, Platform Computing, PolyServe, Provision Networks, Raxco Software, Red Hat, Reflex Security, rPath, Sagent Solutions, SAP, Scalent Systems, ScienceLogic, Seanodes, Splunk, Stoneware, StorageNetworking.org, Supermicro Computer, Surgient, SWsoft, Symantec, Tangosol, Thinstall, Tideway Systems, TOA Solutions, TRANGO Virtual Processors, Trigence, United Devices, VeeAm Software, Virtual Iron, VirtualLogix, Virtugo Software, Vizioncore, VMLogix, vmSight, VMware, vThere – Sentillion, Wyse Technology, XDS, XenSource, Xsigo Systems, and ZenithOptimedia.