NextIO Announces ExpressConnect Family of ioGatewar Products for Virtualization Market By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, May 13 2008
Market's first products to enable seamless IO Virtualization to all standard endpoint devices with industry-standard drivers.
Tucson, Ariz. - May 13, 2008
- NextIO, a leader in the I/O Virtualization marketplace, today
announced the ExpressConnect family of products at the Blade Systems
Insight summit in Tucson, Ariz. ExpressConnect is the first family of
ioGateway products for the virtualization market. The ExpressConnect
are end-to-end connectivity solutions that leverage industry standard
PCI Express (PCIe) technology. As an event sponsor, NextIO will be
demonstrating both the N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module and the
N28000-ICA I/O Consolidation Appliance in Booth 412 at the summit.
These
are the first in NextIO's ioGateway products. The ioGateway segment of
the virtualization market is defined as products enabling seamless IO
Virtualization (IOV) to all standard industry endpoints (or devices)
using industry-standard drivers residing in either rack or blade form
factors. The segment encompasses both expansion and sharing
opportunities.
The
N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module enables blade servers to expand
their PCIe signals outside of the chassis. It delivers a combined
35Gbps of I/O throughput external to the chassis for connectivity to
standard PCI Express devices. The N2800-ICA enables flexible
configuration of standard PCI Express devices for I/O expansion,
partitioning, and virtualization. It offers up to 14 full-length,
full-power PCI Express devices to be connected to and partitioned among
multiple blade or rack servers.
"These
ExpressConnect products directly address the manageability and
flexibility demands of any number of solutions in dense computing
applications," said David Hill, Principal of the Mesabi Group. "These
include applications such as high-bandwidth HD video processing, vector
processing and financial modeling, Web2.0 datacenter virtualization,
and many others. NextIO provides seamless connectivity to any industry
standard endpoint or device using standard drivers. This any-to-any
connectivity, in effect, heralds the obsolescence of fixed I/O
infrastructures."
NextIO's
ExpressConnect products provide an optimal platform using PCI Express,
and since no new software or protocols are required, they readily
complement any high-bandwidth solution that requires flexibility,
manageability, and scalability. For example, NextIO recently
demonstrated end-to-end HD video streaming using the IBM BladeCenter H.
That was an industry first, where customers could pair the advantages
of full-density blade solutions with standard PCIe I/O cards in order
to produce streaming live, uncompressed HD video.
"We
are gratified by the huge customer demand we have received for our new
ExpressConnect products. These are the first in a series of
breakthrough solutions to be shipped into the multi-billion dollar
ioGateway virtualization marketplace," noted K.C. Murphy, CEO and
co-founder of NextIO. "For the first time, these products will enable
data centers and other dense computing environments will receive
immediate benefit from the expansion, manageability and flexibility
opportunities that have not previously been available."
For pricing and specifications of NextIO products, contact Chris Pettey at 512.439.5356 or
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About NextIO
NextIO,
Inc. is the premier provider of I/O virtualization solutions for the
data center and other dense computing environments. Led by a team of
industry veterans, NextIO is based in Austin, Texas. NextIO recently
closed an $18.8 million Series C funding round led by Adams Capital
Management and Crescendo Ventures. The company website can be found at www.nextio.com .
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