Xsigo Systems, Inc., the technology leader in data center I/O virtualization, today announced it raised a new round of funding by investors, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners to support the growing market demand for its award-winning virtual I/O technology.
Additionally, the company reported 25% quarter over quarter growth and experienced record customer deployments. Currently Xsigo provides its virtual I/O solution to over 35 customers around the globe, many of them Fortune 500 companies in business-critical markets including telecommunications, healthcare, education, financial services, government, managed service providers, and technology.
Virtual I/O is gaining increasing importance as IT managers seek new answers to data center connectivity challenges. Gartner recently issued a report titled, "Case Study: Cloud Provider Achieves Ten Times Lower Total Cost of Ownership Over FCoE With Input/Output Virtualization". The report details how "a global online transaction service provider leveraged server virtualization and external input/output (I/O) virtualization in its collocated data centers to reduce server provisioning time from weeks to hours and to reduce on-site support expertise requirements to 'night watchman' levels."
In the report, Gartner recommends, "When deploying server virtualization, companies should consider I/O virtualization choices, particularly external I/O virtualization, as ways to significantly reduce costs, and improve agility and performance." The report concludes, “External I/O virtualization can significantly reduce TCO, from initial provisioning through ongoing operations. When I/O virtualization is combined with server virtualization, server provisioning times can be reduced by 99% and network capital costs can be reduced by 50% or more.” Click to read full Gartner report, compliments of Xsigo.
Jeff McCarthy, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners, commented, “We believe Xsigo’s brand of I/O virtualization reinvents infrastructure provisioning – a data center operation that has not been updated for over 20 years. We continue to invest in Xsigo because they represent the data center of the future, not just a technology trend that will be gone tomorrow.”
In a recent coup for Xsigo Systems, the company received and announced Microsoft’s WHQL certification – the industry’s first and only such certification to date for a dedicated I/O virtualization solution. The WHQL qualification indicates that the Xsigo I/O Director has met the standards of Microsoft and that the product has been designed to work with the Windows operating system.
Xsigo has won a number of awards and achievements over the past 12 months including: The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Network / Internet Technologies category; being named Storage Magazine’s "Product of the Year" in the networking equipment category; being indentified by Byte and Switch as a "Top 10 Storage Startup to Watch"; being named by Virtualization Review Magazine as "Take Five: Innovative Vendor"; and being identified by eWeek as a "Top 10 Disruptive New Storage Technology".