Best Practices for Datacenter I/O Infrastructure

Current I/O infrastructures rely on multiple costly fabrics, server adapter, and leaf switches to provide data and storage networks. Server consolidation and virtualization exacerbates these costs by driving more I/O through each server. New products such as NextIO’s vNET can significantly reduce these costs, while providing increased capabilities and throughput.

Today’s IT professionals are confronted with a variety of challenges regarding server I/O and networking. Server virtualization, the rise of the cloud, and the need for multiple fabrics (whether Fibre Channel and Ethernet, or multiple Ethernet networks) are all increasing the cost of I/O networks relative to other parts of the datacenter. The result has been a slowdown in the adoption of server virtualization, and limited use of “secondary” fabrics such as Fibre Channel in the datacenter. Fabric consolidation approaches such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to date have not delivered the simplification or cost saving needed. However, new I/O consolidation products based on the PCI-Express (PCI-E) bus are arriving on the scene that deliver the simplification required at a significantly lower cost than can be delivered by the status quo or over fabrics such as Ethernet and InfiniBand. Furthermore, because PCI-E based products can support any PCI-E peripherals, they offer the ability to consolidate a far greater set of I/O resources. These products can deliver significantly lower acquisition cost, higher performance, and a greater range of consolidation, with less disruption to current datacenter business practices. This session will touch upon best practices deploying this new technology.

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Thursday 20 October, 1:50 PM - 2:20 PM

Theatre: Network Optimisation

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Mike Heumann
(Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing) NextIO

Mike comes to NextIO with over 25 years of marketing and sales experience in the high-technology industry. A veteran of several innovative I/O and storage companies, Mike specializes in applying his management expertise to reposition companies and refocus sales and marketing teams for optimal growth. Prior to NextIO Mike was VP of Sales and Marketing at Astute Networks where he repositioned the company as a systems company and rebuilt the sales and marketing organizations. Before joining Astute, Mike was at Dot Hill Systems, a provider of Raid Storage Arrays. He began at Dot Hill as Senior Director, Sales Engineering and via promotions held the roles of VP of Marketing and then VP of Sales. His extensive storage and I/O experience includes senior level marketing, sales and engineering roles at JNI Corporation and AMCC. Mike earned his BSEE from the University of Wisconsin, and his Masters degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Purdue University.

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NextIO provides rack-level IO consolidation and virtualization solutions that maximize performance, productivity and efficiencies of complex server I/O. Our innovative architecture is based upon industry standard PCIe switching technology. By separating the compute from the IO we create pools of server IO resources at the rack level that can be shared, virtualized or dynamically allocated across servers within the rack. Data center managers benefit from lower TCO and increased time to revenue. NextIO solutions address data center requirements across multiple industry segments including: Enterprise, Oil & Gas, High Performance Computing, Financial Services, and Government. For more information, visit www.nextio.com.

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Thursday 20 October 1:50 PM - 2:20 PM

Best Practices for Datacenter I/O Infrastructure

Mike Heumann, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, NextIO

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Current I/O infrastructures rely on multiple costly fabrics, server adapter, and leaf switches to provide data and storage networks. Server consolidation and virtualization exacerbates these costs by driving more I/O through each server. New products such as NextIO’s vNET can significantly reduce these costs, while providing increased capabilities and throughput.

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