New features make life even easier for virtualized systems administrators and their managers. Includes new applet that summarizes environment and shows how it compares to industry averages

ANDOVER, Mass., January 20, 2010 — VKernel proudly announces our latest version of Optimization Pack. This new version contains features that make it even easier to manage VM sprawl, re-size VMs to improve performance and increase the number of VMs on existing hardware and reclaim storage wasted on abandoned VMs, templates and snapshots.

Optimization Pack 1.2 includes our new VM Stats applet, which:

• Provides key summary statistics for your VMware environment
• Benchmarks your virtualization efficiency against industry averages
• Highlights savings achievable by correctly sizing VMs and eliminating wasted storage

Additional new features include:

• Ability to add tags to any and all VMs for better sorting, ownership assignment, reporting, scheduled deletion, etc.;
• Monetary value of resources that can be recovered by correctly sizing your VMs and eliminating storage waste;
• Ability to provide all analysis from VMware level 2; and the

Addition of a datastore folder in the navigation tree that allows a storage centric view of the environment

“Users love Optimization Pack because we try hard to deliver features that make their lives easier and that they can leverage quickly and painlessly,” said Alex Bakman, VKernel’s CEO, “For instance, this new release has an Update button. Push it and our virtual appliance updates itself in 5 minutes.”

VKernel provides systems administrators and their managers with easy to use, virtual appliance based solutions to improve capacity utilization and optimize their VMware or Microsoft virtualized environments.

Learn more about Optimization Pack and download a free trial at vkernel.com

About VKernel Corporation
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.