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Founded in 2003, NextIO, Inc. is the leader in next-generation
I/O virtualization solutions for today's dynamic data center in a variety of
industries including enterprise, telecommunications, digital media and financial
services. With its innovative Adaptive Connect™ platform, NextIO offers the
unique ability to virtualize I/O technology on any server, operating system,
hypervisor and storage architecture. Leveraging
PCI Express, NextIO
offers true I/O virtualization for any end-point technology. Adaptive Connect
delivers unprecedented rack-level scalability, with I/O and server resources
that can be scaled independently for 50-70% savings in capital, power, and
cooling. NextIO's any-to-any I/O connectivity boosts performance and reliability
while streamlining IT deployment, simplifying administration and reducing costs.
For more information visit www.nextio.com.
see also:-
NextIO
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- in June 2009 -
NextIO announced it
would demonstrate a 12 slot
PCIe flash SSD system,
designed in collaboration with
Marvell later this
month. Each slot would be capable of over 200,000 IOPs and offer 400GB
capacity.
There are nearly as many companies making
PCIe SSDs today - as
there are making 2.5"
SSDs. And it wouldn't surprise me to see the PCIe SSD oem count to become
the larger of the two.
With the growing number of
SSD controller and IP
companies in the market it's getting
easier to design
SSDs.
An electronics college graduate could probably build a
passable demonstration product as a summer project. But it's another matter
entirely - how well such a college demo unit would work in a variety of
applications and OS platforms. There's no shortcut to market experience. Users
will have to judge how much it's worth becoming beta sites for the mass of new
SSD companies flooding into the market.
NextIO is better
funded than most
students. The most recent
$15
million funding round announced earlier this month took the total to over
$55 million.
In September 2009 -
NextIO named DaWane
Wanek as vice president of world wide sales. Prior to joining NextIO, Wanek
served as a member of the executive team at
Dell, where he was a
director of the Advanced Systems Group, a division responsible for technical
sales.
In November 2009 -
NextIO entered the
mult-million IOPS rackmount
SSD market via an oem agreement which leverages multiple
225GB / 450GB PCIe SLC
SSDs made by Texas
Memory Systems.
Available immediately, the
14 slot NextIO
application acceleration appliance can be configured and reconfigured with
any mix of servers and TMS SSD cards depending on system demands. Pricing for a
basic configuration starts at $19,500, which includes implementation, training
and onsite application or database tuning assistance.
Editor's
comments:- in a little over 2 years the
PCIe SSD market first
captured the imagination of server architects worldwide and then moved off the
page into the datacenter overtaking
2.5" SSDs in
blueprints for future enterprise class servers.
This announcement is
significant. You may ask why? Haven't all the elements in this product mix been
available for some while? In some ways that's true:- rackmount PCIe
connected SSDs have been shipping since
August 2007 (Violin Memory) and very
fast PCIe SSDs cards for adding into server slots since March 2008 (Fusion-io), and
rackmount SSDs based on multiple PCIe cards since
March 2009 (Dolphin). But to my
knowledge Dolphin's solution is not available as an unbundled card.
The
new thing about This announcement is it's the 1st time that an already market proven PCIe SSD card
from one oem has also been offered in a supported (Dolphin style) rack product
from another. That considerably reduces the risk for users - and provides an
incremental upgrade path for users who aren't yet in a position to commit to
multi-terabyte proprietary rackmount SSDs. For more discussion about open vs
proprietary rackmount SSDs see -
Market Trends in
the Rackmount SSD Market |
