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MANCHESTER, England & BEAVERTON, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VirtenSysâ„¢, Ltd., announced it has delivered pre-production units of its I/O Virtualization (IOV) Switch to leading server and storage customers. VirtenSys IOV systems dramatically reduce data center operational expense and complexity by virtualizing all the I/O resources used to connect servers and storage platforms to the networks. This results in reducing rack and blade server management costs by more than 60 percent, power and cooling costs by up to 30 percent and equipment costs by as much as 50 percent. VirtenSys is the first-to-market with IOV products that use the native PCI Express® bus available in every server. The VirtenSys solutions enable the best price/performance and non-disruptive deployment of server I/O connectivity in the data center.

I/O Virtualization Switches drive the evolution of server and storage platforms into more efficient IT infrastructures where all the resources are virtualized, dynamically allocated on demand, independently scaled and optimally utilized. Data center configuration and management becomes a remote, automated process that eliminates physical re-configuration or human intervention. I/O Virtualization also enables the rapid adoption of new usage models and IT services such as green IT, cloud computing and software-as-a-service.

We need to continue the innovation of the IT platform, reduce the barriers to success and ‘add value’ if you like to the end user community, the business so to speak. Using virtualization technologies we can empower a more flexible infrastructure, a more on demand IT. It will be a a two way thing, we need to virtualize the application and the infrastructure. In the infrastructure we should be looking at:

• Server virtualization – commoditize the server, consolidate do more with less
• Storage virtualization – be able to allocate storage more on demand using whatever storage we have and present it where we need it
• Network virtualization – to be able to plug the server in and put it on whatever network we need without having to change the physical patch (as much as possible)
• I/O virtualization – provide the network and the storage down the one pipe, one pipe, one team doing the patching and port allocations – anything we can do to end those delays, sorry we’re waiting on storage/networks allocating the ports…

On the application side we need to be doing everything we can to abstract our application from the infrastructure, the IP, the server using effective coding and appropriate technologies like:

• Citrix/application virtualization
• HPC/Grid technologies
• Web technologies

Removing or reducing the client role in the application, the user simply clicks a url, or double clicks an icon, a thing which runs the application within an exe. Reduce the amount of client pc configuration/support.

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