Xsigo Systems, Inc., the leader in I/O virtualization, today announced key company milestones in 2010. Over the past 12 months Xsigo launched two important virtual I/O products; experienced significant growth from customers, partners and investors; and achieved record revenue growth.
2010 Highlights
“Xsigo has paved the way for companies to build data centers that are ultra-efficient, simple to manage and offer the flexibility needed to support fast-changing business requirements,” said Ray Lane, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Xsigo investor. “The rapid increase in the demand for Xsigo’s virtual I/O technologies will only accelerate when, as Gartner predicts, enterprise customers triple their use of virtualization technologies over the next four years.”
Xsigo now has over 100 customer deployments around the world including leading service providers, telcos, global financial firms, entertainment companies, government agencies, universities, online auction sites, and more. Watch videos of Xsigo customers VMware, salesforce.com, Avaya, Newedge, New England Biolabs, Wholesale Electric.
At a 2010 VMworld press event hosted by Xsigo, executives from Dell, salesforce.com, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers supported Xsigo’s newest product – the world’s first Ethernet-attached virtual I/O. This launch marked a significant milestone in the transformation of the data center and in making cloud computing a reality on a global scale. Event speaker, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers eloquently summarized the significance of the new product and supported Xsigo in taking a stand against vendor lock-in from companies like Cisco. Watch video of John Doerr. Xsigo’s bold marketing strategy placed Xsigo on Cisco’s competitive radar and encouraged Network World blogger, Jim Duffy to write The Cisco Connection: Cisco's 800 pound data center gorilla: Xsigo .
“Data center managers must have virtual I/O technologies such as Xsigo’s as they virtualize more applications, and as they increasingly virtualize their most I/O-intensive applications such as Oracle, SQL, and Microsoft Exchange,” said Lloyd Carney, CEO of Xsigo Systems. “Only Xsigo delivers 4X the performance of Cisco, eliminates Cisco’s solution lock-in, and simplifies management with a single-screen view of data center I/O – the attributes that drove our success in 2010 and will continue to drive growth in 2011.”
Awards and Accolades
Xsigo has won a number of awards 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".
Additional Resources
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Virtual I/O is one of the four ingredients required for cloud computing, according to CIO Magazine. Read the article
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