MANCHESTER, England, and BEAVERTON, Ore. — March 10, 2010 — Virtensys™, Ltd, a leader in next-generation I/O solutions for data centers, today announced that Network Products Guide has named the Virtensys VIO-4000 series I/O virtualization switch a winner of the 2010 Product Innovation Awards in the Virtualization (Hardware) category. This award recognizes and honors vendors, large and small, from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.
"Innovation is not just about new products alone," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Guide. "To succeed, companies need to see innovation not as a one-time errand but as something that has to be continuously evolved and improved upon over and over again. This requires putting greater focus on customer needs and making innovation the center of company's way of developing better solutions. Innovative products such as the Virtensys VIO-4000 switch are bringing improvements in the way virtualization is being deployed today in data centers all over the world."
"We are extremely pleased to be among the award winners recognized by Network Products Guide," said Ahmet Houssein, president and CEO at Virtensys. "Customers can deploy our I/O virtualization switches immediately and in a non-disruptive way, allowing them to tackle I/O problems in their data centers and dramatically reduce costs, power consumption and management complexity. We announced the general availability of our switches a few months ago, and we are in an excellent position to continue building on the strong demand from OEM customers and end-users. This award comes on the heels of our recent announcement revealing our channel expansion in the U.S. and EMEA."
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About Virtensys Ltd
Virtensys develops industry-leading, patented PCI Express®-based I/O virtualization technologies 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 switches 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
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