Xsigo Systems

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Xsigo Systems
Company typePrivate
IndustryInformation Technology, networking
Founded2004
DefunctSeptember 2012
FateAcquired by Oracle
Headquarters
San Jose, California
Key people
Mark Leslie, Chairman,
Ashok Krishnamurthi, Vice-Chairman and Founder,
Lloyd Carney, CEO
Website www.xsigo.com

Xsigo Systems was an information technology and hardware company based in San Jose, California, US, specializing in data center network and I/O virtualization software and hardware to companies and enterprises. [1] [2]

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Company History

Xsigo Systems was founded in August 2004 by three brothers: Ashok Krishnamurthi, R.K. Anand, and S.K. Vinod [3] along with Shreyas Shah. Xsigo Systems operated as a privately held company in San Jose, CA and funded by Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, [4] North Bridge Venture Partners, and Greylock Partners. [5] Ashok Krishnamurthi served as vice-chairman of the company who also previously held the positions of Vice President and General Manager of the infrastructure product line at Juniper Networks, prior to Xsigo Systems. [6] Lloyd Carney served as the chief executive officer of the company. Carney was General Manager of IBM's Netcool Division, which acquired Micromuse where Carney had been chairman and CEO. Prior to Micromuse, Carney was COO at Juniper Networks and head of three divisions at Nortel Networks, including the Core IP Division, the Wireless Internet Division and the Enterprise Data Divisions. [6]

The company filed a patent for a system for communication between computer systems via an I/O bus, which was granted on May 3, 2011 [7]

Xsigo Systems was purchased by Oracle Corporation. The deal was announced at the end of July, 2012 [8] and finalized on September 12, 2012.

Several companies providers, including Microsoft and Oracle, have mentioned Xsigo Systems. [5] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Products and services

Xsigo Systems' product, the I/O Director, is a hardware and software device that consolidates data center infrastructure and streamlines server I/O management. Using the Xsigo I/O Director, users provision I/O resources on live servers, without disrupting network and storage configurations, and without physically entering the data center. Xsigo's I/O virtualization solution replaces a server's multiple Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces with a single high-speed Ethernet or InfiniBand link. Multiple virtual Ethernet interfaces (vNICs) and virtual Fibre Channel interfaces (vHBAs) communicate over this link. Virtual interfaces are established using Xsigo's virtualization hardware and Xsigo's host drivers. [14] These virtual I/O resources appear to the server's applications like their traditional I/O card-based counterparts but unlike traditional I/O resources, vNICs and vHBAs can be created as needed and do not require the server to be opened or rebooted. [3] [15]

Awards and achievements

Xsigo awards and achievements include 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; also being identified by Byte and Switch as a Top 10 Storage Startup to Watch; also being named by Virtualization Review Magazine as Take Five: Innovative Vendor; and being identified by eWeek as a Top 10 Disruptive New Storage Technology. [5] Xsigo Systems' VP780 I/O Director was also nominated for SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice and Awards for Best Network Virtualization. [14]

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