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NextIO - I/O Virtualisation NextIO was founded based upon the vision of creating shared server I/O resource pools. Today, NextIO simplifies complex server I/O and enables any-to-any connectivity among a wide variety of data center resources. With the NextIO architecture server I/O is consolidated at the top of the rack, may be shared and dynamically allocated across servers within the rack. NextIO currently offers a complete portfolio of I/O consolidation and I/ O virtualization products that are easily managed, highly flexible, and provide customers with greater operational efficiencies that reduce CapEx and OpEx costs, and deliver the utmost in data center flexibility and business agility, which drives productivity and economic efficiencies.

As data center server administrators seek to deploy more virtual servers and HPC GPU systems, they will encounter new server I/O resource challenges. Administrators who deploy NextIO rack level I/O architecture will find these solutions to be simultaneously low cost, flexible, and offer high performance. A technology solution that allows independent choices for the server and I/O platforms will yield optimum results in cost, management, and upgradeability.

NextIO provides solutions that:

*  Optimize rack server and I/O density

*  Significantly reduce Opex and CapEx by lowering acquisition costs and management overhead

*  Provides customer choice in server configurations without vendor lock-in

*  Reduce complexity in multi-fabric data centers

*  Increases I/O flexibility in VMware environments by providing on-demand I/O resources

NextIO is delivering on the vision of shared I/O resource pooling for the server rack. The vision of any-to-any connectivity is realized through the three NextIO v-series solutions: vNET I/O consolidation and virtualization appliances, vCORE GPU consolidation products, and vSTOR I/O acceleration appliances.

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vNET NextIO's vNET I/O Maestro Simplifies Complex Server I/O Today's data centers are extremely complex environments to manage. Multiple networks like LAN and SAN require multiple fabrics such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and SAS. Typically, the networks and their associated devices are managed by different groups. Adding to the complexity are deployments of new technologies such as 10GbE, FCoE, server blades, virtualization, and cloud computing. In addition, there are more demanding SLA's, QoS agreements, and drastically reduced budgets to consider. vNET Delivers Value Quickly *  Less cables, adapters and leaf switches makes I/O infrastructure management easier. *  Reducing components and touch points makes routine data center management tasks less time consuming. *  Built-in scalability lets you add I/O resource modules and additional bandwidth as needed. *  Set QoS parameters for guaranteed levels of bandwidth to applications. *  CapEx costs may be reduced up to 40% as a result of less components *  OpEx costs may be lowered by 60% as a result of centralized remote management. Eliminating I/O devices, cables and leaf switches reduces energy consumption and costs. vCORE GPU Supercomputing at a Significantly Lower Acquisition Cost NextIO vCORE products bring datacenter capabilities to GPU computing by delivering GPU virtualization, serviceability, manageability, and flexibility to today's GPU clusters. vCORE increases uptime and reduce over-provisioning to deliver on the promises of GPU computing. Only NextIO vCORE products allow GPUs to be added "On-Demand" to increase the GPU compute needed for an individual job or server. NextIO vCORE Express and vCORE Extreme products deliver from 1 to 16 TeraFLOPS of GPU computing power depending on application needs. They are suited for any HPC environment including: *  Oil and Gas Exploration *  Medical Imaging *  Financial Modeling *  HPC clusters *  Automotive and CAD vSTOR High IOPS Performance for Tier 0 Storage NextIO vSTOR? S200, the first SSD array designed to consolidate and dynamically reallocate Tier 0 storage across servers. Utilizing ioMemory technology from industry leading Fusion-io, the vSTOR S200 achieves a capacity of 19 Terabytes (TB) and over 4.2M IOPS performance, delivering the industry's best SSD I/O performance. Accelerate Your Applications Today *  Database applications ? vSTOR S200 considerably improves application performance for rack and blade servers running the most common database and email applications. *  High Performance Computing (HPC) applications ? Runtimes for HPC SSD cluster applications are highly dependent on the performance of storage array that they attach to. vSTOR's low-latency, high-IOPS and high bandwidth allows these applications to achieve optimum performance. *  Microsoft Exchange ? It has always been possible to improve the performance of Microsoft Exchange IO performance by using solid state technology. The NextIO vSTOR? S200 now makes it economical to do so, and simplifies storage allocation across a cluster of Exchange servers. *  Game hosting and video on demand ? By nearly eliminating storage latency, vSTOR S200 improves customer experience while reducing power, equipment and management costs. nCONTROL Intelligent Management of Shared IO Resources The nControl I/O management software provides a web GUI, and command line interface as well as SNMP support to configure and monitor products enabled with NextIO vConnect I/O virtualization switching technology. To simplify switch administration, nControl includes a configuration wizard to streamline deployment and interface with 3rd party management tools. nCONTROL means that:- *  Using the route management capability of nControl, systems administrators can easily re-assign non-shared I/O devices or shared I/O resources to different servers. *  Using the bandwidth monitoring capabilities, additional I/O devices may be brought online remotely and assigned to the effected server. *  nControl software provides out-of-band communication to shared I/O devices independent of server power status. This allows administrators or management policies to initialize and configure I/O devices prior to server power. This capability provides the flexibility to coordinate fabric management one time and not each time a new server and I/O device is brought into production. *  To help safeguard critical information and manage switch resources, administrators may control data access to users through nControl's access control lists.