NextIO: Leading Provider of Next Generation I/O Solutions

Today's data center managers are faced with increasing challenges in managing cost and complexity. While hardware costs for servers have remained flat, interconnect and management costs have skyrocketed. This is largely due to the increase in the requisite number of servers, resulting in both physical and virtual sever sprawl. The growing infrastructure further impacts the complexity of the data center, as well as, the costs of management, administration, and I/O connectivity. These costs outpace the cost of adding new server hardware by as much as five to one. An emerging paradigm addresses this issue. That paradigm is Virtualization.

For controlling data center management and connectivity complexity, Virtualization is the technology solution of choice. Virtualization lowers overall costs and provides a way to deploy, provision and manage data centers with capabilities yet unrealized. The fundamental value of virtualization is the removal of physical ties to a specific hardware platform. Users can then connect and manage many types of hardware through one abstracted or "virtualized" solution. The concepts of virtualization have been evolving from the Network and Storage markets to new capabilities in Server Virtualization. An emerging component of the virtualization puzzle is I/O Virtualization on standard, commodity platforms.

With the introduction of PCI Express, there is now a server port that offers more than enough bandwidth for any I/O end-point technology offered today. Furthermore, this high bandwidth I/O port is free requiring no changes or additions to existing servers. NextIO's patented technology takes advantage of this free, high bandwidth port by virtualizing PCI Express in the server, thereby removing the constraint of having a single I/O option slot in a server. Now there is a pool of I/O slots that offer the ability to expand and virtualize ALL I/O options.

NextIO: Leading Provider of Next Generation I/O Solutions

Founded in 2003, NextIO, Inc. has pioneered the next-generation I/O virtualization solutions for enterprise class servers. Leveraging PCI Express, NextIO offers true virtualization for ANY end-point technology.