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		<title>&#8220;Size [and speed] does matter&#8221; according to Bil Simser, Microsoft MVP from Alberta</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Size [and speed] does matter" according to Bil Simser, Microsoft MVP from Alberta]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=27</link>
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		<title>A Microsoft MVP is &#8220;Jumping on the Invirtus bandwagon&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Recently, Robert McLaws, Microsoft MVP and a dotnet heavy weight, tried and bought VM Optimzer. Later he blogged about the reason why he gains value from the product. To read his blog here.
	Another great blog about the goodness of VM Optimizer. Keep &#8216;em coming.

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		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=26</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Invirtus VM Optimizer Rules!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Invirtus VM Optimizer Rules! I reduced the image from 2.56 GB down to 1.52 GB.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Microsoft MVP Reviews VM Optimizer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 8 VMs, a 64.4% average reduction.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Recent blog by Geert Baeke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Recently, Geert Baeke downloaded the trial version of VM Optimizer and afterwards blogged about this experience. His VM went from 4.5GB to 1.4GB and he finished his entry by saying &#8220;This tool is really a great way to optimize the size of your virtual disks. To me, it works way better than the native shrink [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Recipe for smaller VMs at VMware&#8217;s VMTN references VM Optimizer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we talked with a user of VM Optimizer who told us he learned about the product from <a href="http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/blog/2005/12/#reducing_vm_size">VMware's VMTN blog.</a> This blog from VMTN linked to another <a href="http://daemonb.blogspot.com/2005/11/reducing-size-of-vms-for-portability.html">blog
</a> which also recommends VM Optimizer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Review by JCooney - &#8220;VM Optimizer - great&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overall a very nice and easy-to-use product, that makes backing up, moving around and sharing virtual machines very easy.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=20</link>
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		<title>A review by a Microsoft MVP, Laurent Kempé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your tool is awesome and really easy to use!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Amazing Review by a Microsoft MVP</title>
		<description><![CDATA["The results are clear... I really like this software" says Lorenzo Barbieri on his <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/lbarbieri/archive/2005/10/06/426821.aspx">most recent Blog</a>.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=17</link>
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		<title>A Blog about VM Optimizer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lorenzo Barbieri, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT, MCSD.NET, MCDBA) in Italy, today has <a href="http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/lbarbieri/articles/InvirtusVMOptimizer2Review.aspx">written an article </a>about his pre-release experience and success with VM Optimizer. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=16</link>
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		<title>Pre-release Review by J.W.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dear J.W.
Question 1.	Describe the improvements you experienced using VM Optimizer to create a smaller VM compared to &#8220;off-the-shelf&#8221; compaction. 
	Your Answer:	&#8220;Off-the-shelf&#8221; compaction 2,638,503 KB compared to Invirtus of 1,483,149 KB
	
Question 2.	Describe/explain the time, cost and/or convenience you are able to recover in transmitting, backing-up or sharing the VM compared to whatever previous process you may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Pre-release Review by T.C.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dear T.C.
Question 1.	Describe the improvements you experienced using VM Optimizer to create a smaller VM compared to &#8220;off-the-shelf&#8221; compaction. 
	Your Answer:	It works as stated. This tool rocks! Others don&#8217;t have the results that make compacting worth while.
	
Question 2.	Describe/explain the time, cost and/or convenience you are able to recover in transmitting, backing-up or sharing the VM [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Pre-release Review by L.B.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dear L.B.
Question 1.	Describe the improvements you experienced using VM Optimizer to create a smaller VM compared to &#8220;off-the-shelf&#8221; compaction. 
	Your Answer:	It&#8217;s really easy, you start the program, it prepares everything for the compaction, then you start the Virtual Disk Wizard and do the final step. It&#8217;s much better than finding the right files to delete, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=11</link>
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		<title>Want a differencing disk strategy that will save you time and money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Differencing disks are wonderful tools for extending virtual machines, but are terribly inefficient in disk space concerns. If you'd like to reduce...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=8</link>
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		<title>Pre-release Review by B.M.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dear B.M.
Question 1.	Describe the improvements you experienced using VM Optimizer to create a smaller VM compared to &#8220;off-the-shelf&#8221; compaction. 
	Your Answer:	I am consistently seeing 40% reductions in the size of vhd files.
	Question 2.	Describe/explain the time, cost and/or convenience you are able to recover in transmitting, backing-up or sharing the VM compared to whatever previous process [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Using Microsoft® Differencing Disks and Baffled By Their Size?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Differencing disks are a terrific way of implementing changeable machine state configurations without touching the parent 'gold' image but...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=7</link>
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		<title>Knowledge Transfer Important to Your Organization?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Virtual machines are self-contained files and can easily be shared among groups and peers. But, file size will limit the amount of sharing...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=6</link>
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		<title>Can ISVs Get More From Their VM Investment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reducing virtual disk size, on a holistic level, jump started a whole new level of productivity for this ISVs sales force. Can doing the same help...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=5</link>
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		<title>Are Smaller Virtual Machines Better Virtual Machines?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Size does matter with virtual machines (VM). Virtual machine platform technology is a great advance in computing, but among users...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=4</link>
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		<title>How Invirtus VM Optimizer Contributes To Your Bottom Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learn how Invirtus Corporation's VM Optimizer 2.0 can reduce costs significantly, increase your capacity and save employees time...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=3</link>
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		<title>Read the VM Optimizer 2.0 &#8220;One Pager&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether software development/testing, technical support, training, software demonstrations, hands-on labs, solution prototyping, personal learning...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.invirtus.com/blog/?p=2</link>
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