Talking about Xsigo and the green data center

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SUNNYVALE, CA, October 22, 2007 – As companies realize that greening the data center is an ideal way to reduce electricity use and minimize environmental impact, they are quickly embracing server virtualization and VM machines to help reach this goal. The growth of virtualization, however, gives rise to a new problem – server connectivity and I/O infrastructure bottlenecks. Xsigo Systems, Inc., the technology leader in data center I/O virtualization, today issued a list of seven tips to help IT communities leverage virtualization, while removing known risks and barriers.
“As more servers become virtualized, it only makes sense to virtualize the supporting I/O infrastructure,” said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and investor in companies that contribute to green computing, including Xsigo Systems. “Newer virtualization technologies such as virtual I/O, combined with ‘green’ best practices and management, will absolutely allow data center energy consumption growth to slow over the next few years.”

To help IT managers leverage I/O virtualization for greener data centers, Xsigo published the following tips.

I was doing some reading up on Xsigo, (Chris has been asking my views about it, and I met one of their guys a few months back). Check out this article which highlights some great comments in terms of the green data center, an interesting read.

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