NextIO, offering PCI Express-based I/O solutions for the data center, announced that their NextIO ExpressConnect product suite will now support advanced numerical analysis, financial modeling, and vector processing functions.

 

The company made this announcement at the Next Generation Data Center Conference (NGDC) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

 

NextIO ExpressConnect family products are end-to-end connectivity solutions that leverage industry standard PCI Express (PCIe) technology, which increases both flexibility and manageability targeting the I/O Gateway (News - Alert) segment of virtualization marketplace.

 

The extended support of this product suite will enable resource and I/O pooling and expansion for data centers and other markets, such as the digital broadcast industry, financial services, and telecommunications.

 

“Much of the technology expected to have a direct impact on tomorrow’s data centers are actually here today,” said Chris Pettey, CTO and co-founder of NextIO.

 

Pettey added, “With NextIO, companies can leverage their current infrastructure assets that can result in immediate operational savings as well as improvements in manageability, while optimizing I/O performance and utilization.”

 

NextIO will be demonstrating the N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module and the N2800-ICA I/O Consolidation Appliance in the Blade.

 

The N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module enables blade servers to expand their PCIe signals outside of the chassis. It delivers a combined 35Gbps of I/O throughput external to the chassis for connectivity to standard PCIe devices. The N2800-ICA enables flexible configuration of standard PCI Express devices for I/O expansion, partitioning, and virtualization. It offers up to 14 full-length, full-power PCI Express devices to be connected to and partitioned among multiple blade or rack servers.

 

The demonstration will be followed by a presentation from Chris Pettey on “I/O Virtualization and Expansion: Yesterday's Promise; Today's Reality.”