COMPANY PROFILE

VirtenSys develops, manufactures, and markets I/O virtualization systems. The company’s differentiated silicon and software uniquely use the industry-standard PCI Express I/O to enable a new solution for optimum data center performance and costs.

VirtenSys was founded in December 2005, and has headquarters in Manchester, England and Beaverton, Oregon. To-date, VirtenSys has raised $24,000,000 in funding from leading venture capital firms.

The State of Corporate Data Centers

Now more than ever, organizations need new ways to increase data center utilization while reducing capital expenditures and the total cost of ownership (TCO), including costs for floor space, power consumption, thermal management, and system maintenance.

The workloads on data centers are increasing exponentially, often in excess of the budgets to support them. Even more important, the dynamics of the IT workload are also changing. These dynamics call for greater corporate agility in response to changing business conditions, and requires an IT infrastructure that can adapt equally fast. These issues and the emergence of new business models have led analysts to predict that, by 2010, 25% of all IT services will be supplied through utility computing models, requiring even greater dynamism in IT workload management. However, even with all of these changes, corporations still expect to maintain their past investments in hardware and software, and will not accept so-called 'fork lift' upgrades of their data centers.

The VirtenSys Solution for Higher Utilization, Lower Cost Data Centers

VirtenSys technology and products will deliver dramatic improvements in the value and effectiveness of newly installed IT data centers. They will also improve the ability of data centers in multi-billion-dollar and start-up businesses to adapt to dynamic workloads.

The unique VirtenSys technology is I/O Virtualization based on the PCI Express industry standard. Through this technology, VirtenSys solutions enable the building of data centers that can adapt instantaneously to any workload; can self-configure and self-heal in the event of failures; and, can operate at significantly higher utilizations than today's systems. I/O Virtualization from VirtenSys will enable the creation of I/O resource pools from which storage, inter-processor communication, and network I/O capacity can be dynamically allocated to servers based on the instantaneous workload profiles.

VirtenSys upcoming products will be sold to tier-1 OEMs and system integrators as either silicon and software building blocks or as fully integrated systems. These products target standards-based servers, storage, and telecoms systems, and can immediately deliver a 30% capital cost reduction and reduce by 50% the TCO across a range of system configurations.

The VirtenSys product roadmap protects IT investments with a standards-compliant migration path for servers to virtualized I/O resources. VirtenSys products provide 100% compatibility with existing commodity servers, I/O cards, operating systems, drivers, and applications.