Virtensys is first-to-market with a new class of data centre switches that virtualise server I/O resources. The Virtensys switch eliminates and consolidates server I/O adapters, network and storage access layer switches and cables. This substantially reduces I/O power consumption, capital equipment costs, number of cables, server management complexity and operational expenses by more than 60 percent.

Virtensys switches connect to servers using the native PCI-Express standard interconnects and manage the entire I/O infrastructure as a single entity. This enables servers to be wired once and I/O resources to be dynamically allocated and modified without any physical reconfiguration. Virtensys products are the industry's only I/O virtualisation switches that are deployed without any modification to the existing servers or networks in the data centre. The switches are also the only products that virtualise all the major server networking and storage connectivity including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI and SAS/SATA.

The switches deliver the industry's best server I/O price/performance and lowest energy consumption for accessing network and storage infrastructures through traditional or converged networks. The VIO-4000 series won the Best of New Technology award at VMworld2009, the Techworld Virtualisation Product of the Year for 2009 and have been named one of CRN's Top 20 Storage Products. The series also won the Bronze award for the "Storage Magazine and Searchstorage.com" 2009 Product of the Year in the Storage Networking Equipment category".