Virtensys News

EqualLogic Co-Founder joins Virtensys Board of Directors

Tuesday, 10 August 2010

    MANCHESTER, England, and BEAVERTON, Ore. – Aug 10, 2010 — Virtensys™, Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions for data centers, today announced that Peter Hayden has joined its board of directors. Hayden co-founded EqualLogic in 2001 and served as its first CEO. He was with the company until its acquisition by Dell in 2008. Previously, Hayden was with Adaptec and held several engineering and management positions at Bell Labs and Digital Equipment Corporation.

    “Virtensys’ momentum in the market has been tremendous, with strong customer and OEM tractions,” said Peter Hayden. “Their innovative I/O virtualization appliances remove the I/O bottleneck and complexity that result from increasing server density and utilization. Consolidating and virtualizing I/O resources increase flexibility and lowers management complexity while reducing power consumption and costs. I am very pleased to be part of the company’s next growth phase.”

    “I am happy to announce the addition of Peter Hayden, an industry veteran and successful entrepreneur, to our board of directors,” said John Nicholson, chairman of the board at Virtensys. “His decision to join Virtensys is another proof of the market opportunity and the success we are having today with OEMs and end-users across a variety of vertical market segments.”

    About Virtensys Ltd

    Virtensys develops industry-leading, patented PCI Express®-based I/O virtualization systems for servers and storage platforms, revolutionizing the way I/O infrastructures are deployed and used in data centers, and delivering significant improvements in I/O utilization, cost, performance, power consumption, and management. The deployment of the IOV appliances is totally non-disruptive and dramatically reduces IT complexity and expenses. The company was founded in December 2005 by leading technologists in the fields of high-performance switching, networking, and systems design, and is backed by several premier technology venture capital firms. For more information, visit www.virtensys.com