Selected for reader's choice recognition for Virtual Management and Optimization solutions

ANDOVER, Mass., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- VKernel Corporation, a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable virtualization management and optimization software, today announced that its Capacity Analyzer software was chosen by the readers of Virtualization Review as a Preferred Product in the Virtual Management and Optimization category for the publication's Reader's Choice Awards.

"The fact that Virtualization Review readers chose our Capacity Analyzer is a testament to how the product is helping our customer manage and optimize their VMware infrastructures," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. "As virtual environments continue to grow and become more complex, the need to get control of server and storage sprawl and optimize existing resources to lower costs is now crucial to the success of all virtualization projects."

With 27 products nominated in the Virtual Management and Optimization category, VKernel Capacity Analyzer was chosen as a Preferred Product. This was the most crowded field of vendor nominated products and VKernel stood out from the rest among readers.

In its first Reader's Choice Awards survey, which will be conducted annually, Virtualization Review asked its readers to vote for the best of the best in the world of virtualization. The voting process included decisions on more than 125 products in 11 categories, ranging from application virtualization to virtualization security, plus standards and training.

VKernel Virtualization Management and Optimization Products
VKernel virtualization management and optimization tools solve a number of critical data center challenges impacting IT staffs today. Delivered as a VMA (Virtual Management Appliance), VKernel software helps VMware users quickly optimize their virtual environments by increasing VM densities, improving the utilization of expensive resources, and managing VM sprawl.

VKernel currently supports VMware ESX and vSphere, with plans underway to support Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XEN. The company's current products include:

• Capacity Analyzer - proactively and predicatively monitor shared capacity resources to prevent current and future problems and optimize the environment
• Optimization Pack - collection of management and optimization applets to help users quickly reclaim unused server and storage resources - delivering an instant ROI
• Chargeback - provide instant cost visibility and implement a chargeback process
• Modeler - interactive capacity planning and "what if" change modeling

About VKernel Corporation
Based in Andover, Mass., VKernel Corporation provides an innovative, award-winning approach to optimizing and managing dynamic virtualized data centers. VKernel's "plug-and-play" virtual appliances are task-focused, affordable, quickly deployed, and easy-to-use. VKernel's solutions deliver an instant ROI by helping IT managers safely increase VM density, optimize resource utilization, and reduce VM sprawl. For more information, visit www.vkernel.com.

About Virtualization Review
1105 Enterprise Computing Group's Virtualization Review is the independent guide to the products, vendors, issues and technologies transforming IT through virtualization. Virtualization Review is the only print publication specifically targeting those IT professionals on the leading edge of this revolution. For more information, visit http://virtualizationreview.com.