Virtensys I/O Virtualization Appliance Wins in the Virtualization Category

MANCHESTER, England and BEAVERTON, Ore. – May 25, 2011 – Virtensys™, Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named the Virtensys VIO-4000 series I/O virtualization appliance a winner of the 6th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the Virtualization category.

The Virtensys I/O virtualization appliances reduce the typical repetitive and manual operations required to setup, maintain, change and manage I/O connectivity for a group of physical servers. Servers can be simply wired once and then reconfigured at will to support different applications without the need for any additional physical changes.

An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the annual Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, support and customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology.

“This industry and peer award recognition of Virtensys’ I/O virtualization solutions by Network Products Guide is a great honor,” said Stephen Spellicy, director of marketing at Virtensys. “It further validates our position as a technology company that is successfully solving the complex I/O bottlenecks faced by organizations today, which inhibit data center scale.”

About Virtensys

The award-winning Virtensys VIO-4000 series I/O virtualization appliances are changing the way IT managers manage and deploy I/O resources to standard rackmount-based servers, enabling a more agile, scalable and dynamic data center. Built upon Virtensys’ patented PCIe I/O virtualization technology, the VIO-4000 product line consolidates and virtualizes traditional server network and storage I/O connectivity for both physical and virtualized server environments. Server administrators can now simply “wire-once” and then remotely manage and provision their I/O resources as needed.

MANCHESTER, England and BEAVERTON, Ore. – March 22, 2011 – Virtensys™, Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions, announced today a joint webinar with Virtual Instruments, the leader in SAN and Virtual Infrastructure Optimization. Titled “Your Fibre Channel SAN: Are you making the most of it?” the webinar will disprove the myth that Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Networks (SANs) are expensive and challenging to manage. Stephen Spellicy, director of marketing for Virtensys, and Archie Hendryx, solutions consultant with Virtual Instruments, will talk about new ways to optimize and consolidate FC connectivity while maintaining the superior reliability and performance of Fibre Channel.

The webcast will take place on March 30, 2011, at 9 a.m. PT / 12 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. GMT; to register, go to http://bit.ly/grin09. The webcast will also teach attendees how to:

• Reduce the amount of HBAs, FC cables, SAN ports and storage ports while concurrently improving application response time and overall availability
  
• Simplify server FC I/O provisioning, enabling a more agile and scalable deployment model
• Learn how to drive substantially higher utilization of existing assets
• Identify FC SAN storage-related problems before they affect users
• Reduce the time it takes for troubleshooting a FC SAN storage environment from days to minutes
• Reduce the OPEX and CAPEX of existent FC SAN storage infrastructures by 50 percent or more, and still maintain performance and availability SLAs

MANCHESTER, England and BEAVERTON, Ore. – November 29, 2010 — Virtensys™, Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions, today announced that Robert Napaa, Virtensys vice president of business development, will be a speaker in the I/O Virtualization track at the Server Design Summit, taking place on December 1 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Napaa will talk about redefining the server I/O boundary in today’s data centers.

The two-hour track (2:15-4:15 p.m.) will bring together industry experts and vendors to discuss the challenges presented by virtualization in multi-core servers used in data centers and cloud computing environments. Such servers need fast access to high-performance I/O and storage, requiring the implementation of virtualized intelligent I/O sharing. The session will present approaches to server I/O virtualization, inter-VM switching, and testing within a virtual environment.

Company Taps Into Established Channels and Expertise

MANCHESTER, England and BEAVERTON, Ore. – November 17, 2010 — Virtensys^™, Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions, today announced a strategic agreement with Keating Technologies. Under this agreement, Keating will help drive Virtensys’ channel expansion in the Canadian market and build on the company’s strong growth across various vertical markets in the U.S.  As the Canadian Virtensys representative, Keating will deliver integrated sales and marketing solutions to its vast network of Canadian value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators who are bringing the Virtensys I/O virtualization solutions to their end users.

I/O Virtualization Systems Enable True Stateless Computing Based on Industry-Standard Solutions

MANCHESTER, England and BEAVERTON, Ore. — Aug 30, 2010 — Virtensys™, Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions, today expanded its product offerings with the introduction of the VIO-4004, a high-performance I/O virtualization system that consolidates and virtualizes network connectivity to a rack of servers and provides up to 80 Gbps of sustained Ethernet bandwidth per server. The VIO-4004 increases the performance of virtualized environments to unprecedented levels by providing servers and Virtual Machines (VM) with the highest connectivity bandwidth while minimizing the server I/O processing overhead. With this new announcement, Virtensys raises the bar and enables traditional as well as "hard-to-virtualize" applications to run much more efficiently in virtualized environments while reducing the I/O costs and power consumption by more than 50 percent compared to traditional I/O deployments. Virtensys will demonstrate the VIO-4004 incorporating the Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520 family at VMworld 2010, booth #1431, in San Francisco, Calif.