VKernel Partners with Lighthouse Virtualization Group

New Gold Partner adds VKernel’s Suite of Virtual Appliances to its virtualization service offering and "Green IT" initiative

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., June 17, 2008 – VKernel Corporation, a provider of easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy virtual appliances for managing virtual server environments, today announced a partnership with Lighthouse Virtualization Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Lighthouse Computer Services, Inc, based in Lincoln R.I. Under the agreement, Lighthouse becomes a VKernel Gold Partner that will resell VKernel’s Suite of Virtual Appliances for analyzing and monitoring capacity, implementing chargeback, and gaining cost visibility in VMware ESX environments and build services to support its "Green IT" initiative.

"As Organizations continue to virtualize their data centers, they need visibility into resource utilization to properly plan their virtual infrastructures, ensure optimal performance, and enable IT to have an accurate cost of each virtual machine," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. "Our solutions are a great fit for Lighthouse as they rapidly address critical issues within the virtual data center to deliver instantaneous value and benefits to Lighthouse and its customer base."

The VKernel Virtual Appliance Suite for Systems Management is a set of "plug-and-play" virtual appliances designed to quickly address real world systems management challenges as organizations migrate to VMware virtual environments. VKernel products enable IT groups to immediately solve today’s critical pain points by providing visibility into the capacity and resource consumption of each virtual machine. VKernel is currently offering a Chargeback Virtual Appliance for gaining cost visibility and implementing chargeback, and a Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer Virtual Appliance for identifying and eliminating capacity bottlenecks.

"Lighthouse differentiates itself by understanding the impact that virtualization has on an organization’s entire environment. By not addressing the organization as a whole, the cost savings inherent to a virtualization strategy will not be recognized. Operational readiness which encompasses the processes and procedures that a company needs to address prior to virtualizing needs to be considered," said Peter Heigis, managing partner for the Lighthouse Virtualization Group. "VKernel completes the Virtualization Methodology Lifecycle and enables companies to proactively address the management challenges to ensure that capacity planning in the virtual world does not meet the same fate as seen in the physical world of over procurement and underutilization."

Virtual Infrastructure provides business benefits such as server consolidation, creating significant up-front and on-going savings, potentially eliminating the need to buy additional server hardware as well as costly add-ons such as SAN connections and air conditioning units. Lighthouse can assist organizations to significantly reduce the number of servers which has a powerful, positive impact on electricity costs, and minimize the data center space needed to house servers.

In addressing the business challenges associated with such issues as limited server space or capacity for power and cooling, Lighthouse Virtualization Group can assist an enterprise’s efforts to increase IT infrastructure resource utilization through virtualization technologies. By leveraging virtualization management technologies, such as VKernel, Lighthouse can also enable the roll-out of new virtual machines with less risk, lower costs, and efficiently allocate shared resource capacity to maximize the performance of VMware ESX servers.

About VKernel Corporation
Based in Portsmouth, NH, VKernel is dedicated to developing best-of-breed virtual appliances that enhance performance, lower costs, and simplify management of virtual environments of all sizes. As a member of VMware’s Technology Alliance Program, VKernel offers the industry’s only VMware certified virtual appliances for analyzing capacity, chargeback, and cost visibility. For more information, visit www.vkernel.com.

About Lighthouse Computer Services
Lighthouse Computer Services is a trusted IT advisor to leading companies throughout the Northeast. The company was founded over 12 years ago with the goal of building productive, long-term technology partnerships with its customers. Today, Lighthouse offers consulting, integration and maintenance services on the latest hardware and software technologies available, including those from IBM, VMware, NetApp, Microsoft, Tivoli, Symantec, STORServer, Lotus, Acopia, Enterasys, APC, and VKernel. Lighthouse placed number 249 in VARBusiness 2008 ranking of the top 500 IT solution provider firms in the U.S. Lighthouse is also winner of IBM’s 2008 Business Partner Excellence Award (North America); IBM’s 2007 Award for Best Compliance Solution, and IBM's 2006 Beacon Award for Overall Technical Excellence in a Business Partner. For more information, please visit www.LighthouseCS.com.

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