Virtual Iron Software, Inc. provides enterprise-class software solutions for server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management. The company’s platform is used for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, workload management, and policy-based automations. Its virtual iron platform consists of virtualization manager that provides a central place to control and automate virtual resources; and virtualization services, which are deployed automatically on bare-metal and industry-standard servers without requiring software installation or management. The virtual iron platform also includes open source virtualization, which is based on an open source hypervisor derived from the open source community project. Its solutions are used for capacity management, virtual infrastructure management, and development and testing. Virtual Iron Software, Inc. was formerly known as Katana Technology, Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Lowell, Massachusetts.