Wednesday, July 1, 2009

VirtenSys Announces Virtual Storage Product

VirtenSys Ltd., a developer of hardware for the virtualization market, said today that the firm has shipped a product which allows servers to share RAID-based storage adapters. The firm--which is based in the UK but has operations in Beaverton, Oregon--said the product allows multiple physical servers to use a single, LSI Host Bus Adapter (HBA), which helps reduce data center operational expenses and power consumption. Virtensys is looking do create "virtual" I/O capabilities on servers, to reduce the amount of storage infrastructure needed in a data center; the firm uses connections into a server's PCI Express computing bus for the capability.