Comments on: Xsigo Raises Money for Virtual I/O http://gigaom.com/2009/06/03/xsigo-raises-money-for-virtual-io/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Virtualized I/O Takes Cloud Computing to the Next Level http://gigaom.com/2009/06/03/xsigo-raises-money-for-virtual-io/#comment-212829 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:53:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=52699#comment-212829 [...] spend 50 percent less to deliver its high reliability cloud. The company has installed boxes from Xsigo Systems that sit between the servers and switches and create a cloud through which the network traffic from [...]

]]> By: bob napaa http://gigaom.com/2009/06/03/xsigo-raises-money-for-virtual-io/#comment-212828 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:44:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=52699#comment-212828 We totally agree that I/O Virtualization is the best way to deploy network and storage connectivity to servers. I/O Virtualization results in major savings in TCO, power consumption and management costs.

However, using IB as the underlying connectivity to the server is not the best approach as it is costly and not transparent to the existing server infrastructure. An alternate approach is to use PCI Express like the VirtenSys I/O Switches (www.virtensys.com). The VirtenSys solution offers the lowest cost and most energy efficient model for deploying network and storage connectivity to a rack of servers. Further, the VirtenSys switches are totally transparent to the existing server infrastrucure, requiring no changes to the servers, OS, I/O device drivers and don’t introduce any new I/O device driver in the server

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