Company Overview

Background: I/O Consolidation and I/O Virtualization

NextIO was founded based upon the vision of creating shared server I/O resource pools. Today, NextIO simplifies complex server I/O and enables any-to-any connectivity among a wide variety of data center resources. With the NextIO architecture server I/O is consolidated at the top of the rack, may be shared and dynamically allocated across servers within the rack. NextIO currently offers a complete portfolio of I/O consolidation and I/ O virtualization products that are easily managed, highly flexible, and provide customers with greater operational efficiencies that reduce CapEx and OpEx costs, and deliver the utmost in data center flexibility and business agility, which drives productivity and economic efficiencies.

Delivering the Top of Rack Server IO Resource Solution

What's going on at the Top of the Rack (ToR)? Put simply, the NextIO ToR solution provides data center managers with the most flexible connectivity options available today. NextIO delivers the industry's most cost-effective, open architecture solutions that are interoperable with all server I/O requirements. Designed to provide complete connectivity for all servers, data center managers can connect any server to any server I/O, OS, hypervisor, network or fabric with NextIO solutions. Our customers quickly achieve the flexibility and agility needed to respond to the ever-changing business demands in today's dynamic data center environment.

Pooling Virtual IO Resources Through Industry Standard Technology

The NextIO IOV architecture is based upon PCI Express (PCIe) switching technology and serves as the basis for the PCI-SIG SR-IOV and MR-IOV standards.

NextIO separates networking and storage I/O from the compute nodes within the rack and creates pools of virtual I/O resources that may be shared by multiple servers and dynamically allocated among the servers in the rack. Instead of over-provisioned, fixed and underutilized resources per server, the NextIO architecture allows for resources such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Flash SSD and GPU accelerators, to be fully utilized and provisioned based on application needs. By basing the solution on industry standard PCIe, NextIO delivers a simple, low cost ToR architecture that can be utilized by every server and I/O device.