The explosion of business services and applications is driving data center complexity and costs. This trend requires a data center infrastructure that quickly responds to dynamic workloads while reducing expenses and energy consumption. Several new technologies such as server virtualization, storage virtualization and blade servers have been introduced to optimize the operations of data centers. These efficiency improvements, however, are limited by the existing I/O infrastructure. Although the I/O adapters' performance, complexity, capabilities and cost have grown, the I/O infrastructure deployment model has not changed, remains complex and hinders data center agility. Each server typically still contains several dedicated internal I/O adapters (1 and 10 Gbps Ethernet NICs, Fibre Channel HBAs, SAS/SATA RAID, graphics, etc), which on average are utilized at less than 15% of their available I/O bandwidth and capability. In addition, each server still connects to network and storage aggregation switches using multiple network and storage cables per server before reaching the corporate networks. This I/O deployment model wastes power, increases cooling requirements and makes the I/O infrastructure inflexible, expensive and costly to manage and maintain.

Virtensys' vision is that data center servers and storage systems will no longer physically contain complex high-speed I/O adapters. Instead, corporate network connectivity is provided through the native PCI Express interface to an external pool of virtualized, shared and highly utilized, standard I/O resources. Further, network and storage aggregation switches are eliminated and all the network cables connected to each server are replaced with a single PCI Express cable.

Virtensys I/O Virtualization appliances are industry-leading, cost-effective solutions that deliver all the benefits of I/O Virtualization without performance degradation or disruption to existing data center infrastructures and processes. The company's products can be deployed in data centers of large and small enterprises in conjunction with new installations of rack-mounted or blade servers and storage systems, which are growing at a CAGR of 9.9%. Similarly, the products can also be deployed with the existing installed base of server and storage systems, which are growing at a CAGR of 16%. Virtensys sells its products through the major server and storage Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and System Integrators (SI).

The company has formed an active end-user IT Advisory Council that consists of IT executives from a wide range of organizations and industries. The Advisory Council provides vital insight into the real-life, daily issues faced by IT managers, as well as information about their IT requirements, usage models and deployment schemes.