Today Virtual Iron is announcing Virtual Iron version 4. John Thibault, President and CEO, and my old friend Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer, took time out of their very busy schedules to chat with me about the new release. I've always been impressed with the innovative thinking shown by the folks over at Virtual Iron and this conversation reinforced that feeling. Here's a quick description in of their announcement: Version 4 offers easy-to-use tools for creating, provisioning and managing the complete lifecycle of virtual machines across large numbers of physical servers. Virtual Iron states that "The new release continues to close the feature gap with VMware′s most comprehensive offering and is available at just a fraction of the cost." Version...