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Virtensys

MANCHESTER, U.K. – February 3rd, 2010 — Virtensys™, Ltd, a leader in next-generation I/O solutions for datacentres, today announced it is expanding its network of channel partners in EMEA in response to the strong demand for its VIO 4000 I/O virtualisation switches from organisations of all sizes across the region.

The award-winning VIO 4000 switches consolidate, virtualise and share the server networking and storage connectivity, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI and SAS/SATA without requiring any changes be made to the servers or networks. The switches deliver the full connectivity bandwidth to servers and significantly reduce I/O power consumption, equipment costs and server management complexity and expenses by more than 60 percent. This results in providing servers with the industry’s best I/O price/performance and lowest energy consumption for accessing the networks and storage infrastructures.

Virtensys has established strategic partnership agreements with specialist resellers in the UK, including Nviron, COAL, Virso, SGI and ADA Computer Systems. With this announcement, Virtensys is also revealing details of its channel partner programme. Through this programme, the company offers its channel partners strong margins, financial incentives, lead generation, and extensive technical training and sales support.

I met with the guys from Virtensys, they do I/O virtualization solutions and it was great talking with them about their solution and the topic of convergence of network and storage down the one interface, about how they could help with the typical issues that we face in the operational world.  The more barriers we can remove to delivery, deployments and support, whether they are process, people or technical, the more we can be seen to deliver value to the business which has to be a good thing.

I/O virtualization going forward is going to become increasingly popular as we struggle with the requirements of reducing the complexity of the systems management, improving the efficiency of the infrastructure and removing the barriers to success, that Fred has to be called to change the physical patch cable from one switch port to another switch port and everything that involves.  The interesting thing around the whole space is that we need not fear such change or innovation, the more we abstract and resolve the nuts and bolts activities, the more I can have my team add real business value and concentrate on the strategy on the continuing service improvement, put another way I can either be pressing respond on your help desk interface as a networks guy, responding to port allocations, or I can be identifying bottlenecks, looking at your traffic patterns and establish going forward how we can make small changes for greater service improvement.

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