VirtenSys Award-Winning I/O Virtualization Solutions Enable Dense High-Performance Compute Clusters with Dramatic Power Savings

Company to Demonstrate Its Solutions at Supercomputing 2009
MANCHESTER, England & BEAVERTON, Ore.--(Business Wire)--
VirtenSys™, Ltd, a leader in next-generation I/O solutions for data centers,
today announced that its VIO 4000 I/O virtualization switches enable the
deployment of high performance compute (HPC) clusters with the industry`s best
I/O price/performance and lowest energy usage. The award-winning VIO 4000
switches consolidate, virtualize and share all the servers I/O resources within
a rack. The switches deliver the full network and storage connectivity bandwidth
to each server, while cutting I/O equipment cost in half and reducing energy
consumption by more than 70 percent. The I/O virtualization switches are based
on the native PCI Express (PCIe) server standards. VirtenSys will demonstrate
its solutions at Supercomputing 2009 (SC09), Booth 757 at the Oregon Convention
Center, in Portland, Ore.

Additionally, The VIO 4000 switches provide servers with low-latency and
high-bandwidth inter-processor communication (IPC) for message passing utilizing
PCIe interconnects, with no additional cost or performance overhead. Similarly,
the switches provide applications with access to high-performance, low-latency
and low-cost global shared memory (GSM) for high-speed data caching and
processing. Large arrays of local shared solid state drives (SSD) are also
available as raw storage for information logging and file sharing. No changes
are required in servers, operating systems or applications to leverage these
capabilities.

High-performance, low-cost, small footprint and low-power compute clusters can
now be built within a single rack, using very compact and state-of-the-art
commodity servers. Compute capacity and I/O resources within a cluster can be
independently added, deleted and dynamically allocated depending on
applications` needs. Clusters I/O resources are also managed as a single entity,
reducing management complexity and costs by more than 60 percent.

"We are very pleased to bring this capability to HPC customers. Our VIO 4000
switches are shipping now, and customers can immediately deploy computer
clusters with the maximum server performance at the lowest cost and energy
consumption levels," said Ahmet Houssein, president and CEO at VirtenSys. "With
IT budgets so tight, customers now have more dollars to spend on their compute
resources. The demand we have received from customers has been phenomenal."

About VirtenSys I/O Virtualization Solutions

The VIO 4000 switches are the first products on the market to consolidate,
virtualize and share the major types of server networking and storage
connectivity, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), SAS/SATA
and Fibre Channel, without requiring any changes to servers, networks, I/O
adapters or management infrastructures. The products won the best of New
Technology award at VMworld2009 and have been named one of CRN`s Top 20 Storage
Products at VMworld. The switches are available now in volume production through
our worldwide channel partners.

For more information about VirtenSys or to schedule a meeting at SC09, contact
Georgiana Comsa with Silicon Valley PR at georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com or (408)
435-1500.

About VirtenSys Ltd

VirtenSys develops industry-leading, patented PCI Express-based I/O
virtualization technologies for servers and storage platforms, revolutionizing
the way I/O infrastructures are deployed and used in data centers, and
delivering significant improvements in I/O utilization, cost, performance, power
consumption, and management. The deployment of the IOV switches is totally
non-disruptive and dramatically reduces IT complexity and expenses. The company
was founded in December 2005 by leading technologists in the fields of
high-performance switching, networking, and systems design, and is backed by
several premier technology venture capital firms. For more information, visit
www.virtensys.com.

The VirtenSys name and logo are trademarks of VirtenSys, Ltd. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Silicon Valley PR
U.S.
Georgiana Comsa, (408) 435-1500
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
or
VirtenSys, Inc.
U.S.
Robert Napaa, (650) 814-4883
napaa@virtensys.com
or
VirtenSys, Ltd.
U.K. and Europe
Marek Piekarski, + 44 (0) 161 495 1541
info@virtensys.com

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