Tokyo, JAPAN - June 1st, 2010 - VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. (VA Linux) today announced that "VA Quest" failure analysis solution service support is available for KVM. The company also announced that it is ready to offer new professional services; "KVM Quest" and "Quest Starter".

The adoption of virtualization technologies is growing steadily from testing and development to production use because of reduced costs, and improved availability, environmental impact and easy of provisioning. Additionally, virtualization is now an essential technology for building cloud computing infrastructure. So the adoption of virtualization technology for mission-critical applications will further accelerate.

However, the adoption of virtualization has some issues such as the operational burden caused by the increase in complexity and availability during unexpected system failures. VA Linux has been constantly receiving requests from our customers asking for a support service for operational system control of open-source virtualization technologies.

Our new service, "KVM Quest" is a KVM-compliant failure and performance analysis service. "KVM Quest" offers failure analysis, root cause analysis and solutions to avoid future occurrences through source-code analysis.

"VA Quest" is a failure analysis solution service which provides reliable, from-the-source professional support for the Linux Kernel. By extending "VA Quest" to KVM, VA Linux is now able to cover the major open-source virtualization technologies - Xen and KVM.

VA Linux has also released a trial service, "Quest Starter" for new customers who want to try our solution service at the low monthly charge 800,000 yen for a three-month period. "Quest Starter" provides failure analysis of the Linux Kernel, KVM and Xen which makes full use of the power of VA Linux's Linux Kernel experts.

Adding these products to our business, we will offer a wide choice of professional services and efficient support for service providers and, SI and data center vendors.

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