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	Cloud Computing Shopping List: 4 Key Ingredients June 7, 2010 When you're preparing your IT budget for use of private or public cloud services, what should be at the top of your shopping list? Here are four key categories -- including virtual I/O. An IT manager at a large digital mapping firm reports,"Moving to virtual I/O is a concept shift... you're moving stuff across a high-bandwidth backplane and you can reconfigure the SAN connections or the LANs without having to change cables."
	IT architects ponder converged infrastructure "pods" May 27, 2010 No one likes to reinvent the wheel, especially not infrastructure architects whose "wheel" is a complex mix of data center infrastructure, including servers, storage, networks and virtualization. Some forward-looking types want to minimize the amount of up-front work it takes to stand up new systems by designing self-contained compute "pods" that contain everything necessary to run a system.
	Xsigo I/O Virtualization Offers Instant Savings May 26, 2010 Xsigo has hit three hot buttons with I/O virtualization, cloud computing and VMware. Citing the new VP560 I/O Director's 2U size, affordability, interoperability and open systems architecture, the company says the new product creates a modular building block based on standardized, rack-based computing architectures it calls "pods" that enable the efficient delivery of scalable compute resources.
	Xsigo cuts Director Down to Size: The Rise of the Pod May 14, 2010 I/O virtualisation specialist Xsigo Systems has scaled down its I/O Director product to meet the demand for a rack-based product. The VP560 I/O Director, has been designed specifically for private cloud infrastructures.
	Xsigo Follows Southwest's Route May 10, 2010 Xsigo Systems Inc. announced a smaller version of its I/O Director today, targeting the way data centers are starting to model Southwest Airlines. No, it doesn't have anything to do with limiting in-flight food to small bags of peanuts (although that's more food than you get on many flights these days). It has to do with the cookie-cutter approach some companies are taking toward their data centers.
	Xsigo scales down server I/O virtualizer: Attack of the pod people May 11, 2010 The rack is becoming the new chassis for IT infrastructure, despite the best efforts of the major blade server providers to have their own blade enclosures (incompatible with others' tools and form factors) become the unit of control for a bunch of servers and their switches. Which is why upstart server I/O virtualizer Xsigo Systems is cutting back its I/O Director to deliver an entry box that is suitable for a single rack.
	Xsigo intros virtual I/O director; Dell to resell May 11, 2010 Xsigo Systems Inc. is introducing a smaller version of its virtual I/O appliance that takes up half the space in a rack and is intended to help users more easily build smaller, modular "pods" of standardized virtualized computing devices on a single rack, rather than having storage all on one rack and servers all on another rack."We're very excited because of the smaller footprint," says Mornay Van Der Walt, VMware's director of technical marketing, whose team is responsible for hosting equipment that services labs at events such as VMWorld."
	Xsigo In-Rack Virtual IO Reduced Rack Space May 11, 2010 Xsigo Systems Inc. is introducing a smaller version of its virtual I/O appliance that takes up half the space in a rack and is intended to help users more easily build smaller, modular "pods" of standardized virtualized computing devices on a single rack, rather than having storage all on one rack and servers all on another rack."We're very excited because of the smaller footprint," says Mornay Van Der Walt, VMware's director of technical marketing, whose team is responsible for hosting equipment that services labs at events such as VMWorld."
	The Growing Pool of I/O Virtualization Technology Options March 23, 2010 David Zacharias, service delivery manager at Xsigo-customer HiFX comments, "It's a huge benefit for us not to have to physically provision servers or manage cabling, not to mention the time saved [not] traveling to data centers. There's also been savings on physical equipment like cards and Fibre, but the big one is the ability to provision virtual servers and set up I/O remotely. I can't imagine doing without it now."
	I/O-strapped VMware shop chooses Xsigo over Cisco for converged network March 22, 2010 Facing network performance problems in its virtualized VMware environment, this firm evaluated converged networking options from Cisco and Xsigo. They found that Xsigo Systems Inc.'s offering cost about half as much as Cisco Systems Inc.'s while also providing cabling and availability benefits compared with maintaining separate Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks.
	Xsigo virtual I/0 Director saves money on Fibre Channel, Ethernet switches March 22, 2010 Xsigo named as a "top tool for the data center." "The Xsigo Systems virtual I/O Director saves us a lot of money on individual parts and pieces, and by that I mean the Fibre Channel switches, redundant Ethernet switches for iSCSI and all these different cards in the servers."
	Four trends shape the New Data Center March 22, 2010 Four trends identified as shaping today's data center, three of which involve virtual I/O. Thanks to x86 server virtualization and its follow-on technologies, the state-of-the-art enterprise data center looks vastly different than it did even a year ago.
	Xsigo's I/O virtualization approach: Software virtualization via I/O Director January 19, 2010 "The main benefits of Xsigo's model are reduced physical infrastructure and flexibility. Only one card and one cable are required for any server connection to the I/O Director (two are standard for redundancy), instead of at least one cable per I/O interface. That's a lot fewer cards and a lot less cabling, especially when you have to add or replace cards, not to mention less power and cooling."
	Case Study: The Value of Virtual I/O, New England Biolabs December 23, 2009 Xsigo virtual I/O saved this customer $30,000 per IBM blade chassis by enabling scalable I/O with far less hardware. Plus, it gave them the ability to modify I/O on the fly in response to changing application requirements.
	Virtual I/O takes off in 2010 December 10, 2009 "The principles in use to configure server and storage infrastructure will change drastically starting in 2010.Virtual I/O provides a more flexible environment for connecting IO networks to servers, simplifies cabling, reduces IO port counts, reduces power consumption and heat density, and improve the overall management of servers racks and the IO infrastructure."
	Raising the I/O virtualization bar with Xsigo Systems' VP780 IO Director December 6, 2009 "If you haven't heard of I/O virtualization by now, rest assured. Once you understand how I/O virtualization with tools such as Xsigo Systems Inc.'s I/O director reduces cabling and eases virtualization infrastructure expansion, you (like me) will be sold on virtual I/O. Xsigo Systems VP780 IO Director sets the standard for this emerging technology."
	Six Virtualization Predictions for 2010 December 3, 2009 "Virtualization technology is truly a game-changer for the IT world, as evidenced by VMworld 2009 where we saw an exceptionally dynamic environment, both in the technology and the market conditions. Enthusiasm at the event reflected an eagerness to put virtualization technology to work, setting the stage for 2010."
	Top 10 Emerging Enterprise Technologies for 2009 November 16, 2009 "I/O virtualization addresses an issue that plagues servers running virtualization software such as VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V. When a large number of virtual machines runs on a single server, I/O becomes a critical bottleneck, both for VM communication with the network and for connecting VMs to storage on the back end. I/O virtualization not only makes it easier to allocate bandwidth across multiple VMs on a single server, it paves the way to dynamically managing the connections between pools of physical servers and pools of storage."
	Hiding the I/O Bottleneck October 23, 2009 “IT organizations that take the time to start with a fresh piece of paper are going to have a significant advantage over rivals that are going to increasingly spend their days trying to track down performance anomalies created by intermittent I/O issues that are never the same twice, but never really go away.”
	Compellent & Xsigo Team Up To Meet Electrical Supply Company’s Storage Needs October 23, 2009 "Xsigo’s virtual I/O provided me a path where I could have two cards in each server and run all Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Ethernet traffic,” says Fife. Xsigo’s capabilities mean that Fife can use a 1U server rather than a 2U or 4U one.
	Virtual I/O: Bringing Data Center Connectivity Into the Virtualization Era October 8, 2009 "While server virtualization has significantly improved datacenter economics by driving higher server utilization, it has also driven server I/O to its breaking point. Virtualized servers demand more connections to networks and storage, and require more I/O bandwidth to optimize utilization, making server connectivity in today’s data center more complex and costly than ever."
	Not Your Father's Virtual Machine October 6, 2009 "The move to virtualization is occurring on so many fronts that some companies are introducing hardware specially designed for virtualization scenarios. One example is Xsigo Systems of San Jose, Calif., which makes a box that virtualizes the input and output functions of a server, which are the way it talks to, say, storage products."
	I/O Virtualization Shines at VMworld 2009 September 22, 2009 "It started with virtual memory, then virtual machines (CPUs), then virtual storage, and now I/O virtualization (IOV) – where the I/O path from the server to the peripheral is itself virtualized. Traditionally, I/O devices connect to the server with some sort Interface or adapter, e.g., NIC – Network Interface Card, HBA – Host Bus adapter, etc., which are located inside the physical server."
	InfiniBand and the Cloud September 18, 2009 "Ethernet is the networking protocol of choice in the enterprise, a fact that is not likely to change any time soon. And yet, some are wondering whether the rise of cloud computing might lead many large enterprises to consider deploying an even faster solution -- say, InfiniBand. If the decision were based on I/O performance alone, InfiniBand would already be the hands-down winner."
	Strategies to Optimize Virtual Machine Connectivity with Xsigo Virtual I/O September, 2009 "Increased resource utilization is the primary objective of enterprise consolidation initiatives—and typically the greatest single benefit of server virtualization. But IT managers are now finding that deploying virtualization with a traditional server I/O architecture introduces its own problems that can prevent consolidation projects from reaching their full potential, including I/O bottlenecks, limited flexibility, and complex management as the number of network and storage ports increase."
	Getting Ready For Virtualization September 11, 2009 "Server virtualization has been the big buzz in data center operations for only about four years. But today, virtualization is going beyond servers. Remember that virtualization requires lots of connectivity, which could translate into additional costs."
	Storage, I/O and server virtualization turn on the juice for electrical distributor September 11, 2009 When Houston-based electrical equipment distributor Wholesale Electric Supply Co. decided to centralize management of server resources by virtualizing with VMware, it also needed to install a storage-area network (SAN) and I/O virtualization switch to keep infrastructure costs from spiraling.
	Xsigo Deployed in VMware Demos at VMworld August 31, 2009 Xsigo Systems' virtualization gear is being used in the VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) booth at this week's VMworld tradeshow. Which seems like a nice bit of startup bragging rights, considering VMware is the star of VMworld, which is being held in San Francisco.
	Overcoming the Storage I/O Limitations of Virtual Servers August 3, 2009 One the biggest limitations of a virtual server environment is the amount of I/O that can actually be delivered to any application stack that shares access to physical storage resources over a common network. Xsigo makes a strong case for a new virtual approach to I/O that not only boosts I/O performance, but also reduces the physical amount of infrastructure that needs to be managed by about 50 percent.
	Virtualized I/O Takes Cloud Computing to the Next Level July 20, 2009 PrimaCloud has installed boxes from Xsigo Systems that sit between the servers and switches and create a cloud through which the network traffic from the virtual machines loaded on the servers is routed. The network can handle traffic destined for other servers or for the storage network without requiring separate cables.
	Cloud Computing Provider Deploys Xsigo July 20, 2009 PrimaCloud explains that only Xsigo virtual I/O allowed them to achieved their objectives. "We can connect anything to anything to create a standalone virtual datacenter, and then re-configure those resources at a moment's notice. It literally lets us put the 'virtual' in the virtual private datacenter," says CEO David Durkee
	Video Site Virtualizes I/O, Servers July 13, 2009 Pixorial's overall goal is to enable consumers to do more with their personal video than they thought possible. "We wanted to be sure to adopt the technology that could mitigate the pain of growing quickly. I don't think we would have been able to deal with this much bandwidth without Xsigo," said Terry.
	Pixorial's video-sharing website virtualizes network resources with Xsigo I/O Director June 23, 2009 Pixorial Inc., an online video-sharing website, turned to Xsigo Systems Inc.'s I/O virtualization director switch, Xsigo I/O Director, to build an infrastructure that will allow for quick scaling of storage and network bandwidth.
	Seven Ways to Tackle Unexpected Server I/O Costs May 27, 2009 "Why is server I/O shaping up to be the next major revolution in the data center? Two primary reasons: unexpected costs and the promise of a solution. The total spending for server I/O can often total well over $10,000 per server -- sometimes more than the cost of the server itself. At the same time, new technologies, such as virtual I/O, have the promise to slash expenses -- both capital and operational -- and to deliver economic benefit similar to what we’ve achieved with server virtualization."
	Companies Push the Limits of Virtualization May 2, 2009 "When it comes to virtualizing servers, few companies can match Accenture's outsourcing arm. The unit hosts customers such as the airline reservation site Navitaire.com, as well as several high-volume trading and insurance systems. While most other companies find their servers are maxed out at 10 or 12 virtual machines per server, he's designed ones that run 30 VMs each. [They've] bought specialized I/O hardware from Xsigo, which early on saw I/O as a potential bottleneck in virtualization."
	Vendor Agnostic on the Unified Fabric April 20, 2009 "There are multiple approaches to this unified infrastructure. Cisco is talking about unification, but what they really mean is to unify everything under their brand. For most IT managers, that is not realistic. Most data centers include equipment from numerous vendors across multiple platforms, and they need to fully utilize that equipment for the rest of its useful life. That’s what Xsigo enables."
	A Five Billion Dollar Data Center Bailout Strategy April 14, 2009 "Last week's bright spot was a conversation I had with a little-known Silicon Valley upstart called Xsigo Systems. Jon Toor, who directs marketing for the San Jose firm, intrigued me by promising that he could save my enterprise data center over $5 billion dollars with his wares. While not as much as a government bailout, $5 billion is nothing to sneeze at, so I heard him out. You should, too."
	Dell to resell Xsigo's virtual I/O products February 3, 2009 "Where Xsigo's technology adds value is by allowing users to scale their environments without increasing port counts," says Anthony Dina, director of strategy at Dell. "Since quality of service [QoS] is inherent to the Xsigo Director and it supports connectivity between all of Dell's servers, blades and storage product lines, customers can scale IT while freeing users from the physical binds that are associated with the ways servers are connected to LANs and SANs."
	Dell and Others Put Memory, I/O in Spotlight February 3, 2009 "Memory and I/O issues are among the bigger technical issues many organizations face. The reasons for this are multiple, but for the most part they boil down to the pipes not being wide enough to handle everything coming through, no matter how much processing power is thrown at it."
	Five virtualization trends to watch February 3, 2009 "In the ‘Why didn't I think of that?’ category. Xsigo Systems virtualizes server I/O to keep systems administrators from going crazy trying to keep track of all the interconnects that quickly overrun most server rooms."
	Dell pairs with Xsigo on virtual I/O February 3, 2009 "Dell needs what Xsigo has on the I/O virtualization front"
	Filling the Virtualization Void - Dell Blog February 3, 2009 "With the addition of the Xsigo virtual I/O product family, we can help our customers manage I/O resources across multiple vendor platforms from a single console – reducing both the operational and capital costs associated with server I/O."
	Dell adds Xsigo I/O virtualization to servers February 3, 2009
	Baker Business Systems - profile of Xsigo Systems customer January 14, 2009
	Fantasy sports website turns to Xsigo I/O switches for 100% uptime November 26, 2008
	OPEN Sports relies on VMware and Xsigo for server and I/O virtualization November 19, 2008
	Xsigo Wins Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award September 29, 2008
	Maximizing I/O Virtualization July 30, 2008
	Top Five Innovative Virtualization Vendors June 9, 2008
	Video: Khosla Talks Green Data Centers and Investment Tactics June 6, 2008
	Product Review: Xsigo's Breakthrough - I/O Virtualization May 23, 2008
	LAN and SAN Unite May 16, 2008
	Virtualization's Promises and Problems May 16, 2008
	Easing Network Congestion Caused by Virtual Servers May 9, 2008
	Benefitting From I/O Virtualization April 21, 2008
	New Notable Startups to Watch February 21, 2008
	Xsigo Receives Top Honor for Product of the Year February 5, 2008
	Server Virtualization and the Business of I/O Solutions (Podcast) January 30, 2008
	Xsigo, VMware Partner on Network Virtualization January 29, 2008
	Xsigo Nominated for Virtualization Journal's "Readers' Choice Awards" January 29, 2008
	VMware Integrates Virtual HBAs January 28, 2008
	Xsigo the New Darling of Virtualization January 28, 2008
	Avoiding the I/O Connectivity Meltdown January 24, 2008
	Seven Tips to Leverage Virtual I/O for Greener Data Centres January 24, 2008
	Finalists 2007 Storage Products of the Year January 20, 2008
	Going Green Challenges and Awards January 18, 2008
	Xsigo Named Top 10 Storage Technology of 2007 December 20, 2007
	20 Vendors You Should Know for 2008 December 19, 2007
	How to Support Your Virtual I/O December 13, 2007
	I/O Bottlenecks Exist within Server Virtualization December 8, 2007
	Xsigo Named Top Ten New Disruptive Storage Technology December 7, 2007
	Infoplex Remotely Manages Operations Across Two Continents with Xsigo November 27, 2007
	Start-Up Virtualizes I/O Connectivity October 2007
	"Virtualizing I/O makes a heck of a lot of sense" October 15, 2007
	I/O Virtualization "Saving a Bundle" for Hosting Provider October 1, 2007
	Xsigo Systems -- The Next New Data Center Star? September 13, 2007
	Meet Xsigo and I/O Virtualization September 12, 2007
	Xsigo Launches I/O Virtualization Product September 10, 2007
	Xsigo Virtualizes I/O, Running Ethernet and Fibre Channel Over Infiniband September 10, 2007
	Xsigo Gets Real, Gets Virtual September 10, 2007
	Virtualize Your I/O September 10, 2007