Burton Group

"I/O performance and management for virtual servers is a significant roadblock to adoption for more demanding applications. The solution requires more intelligent and flexible I/O virtualized interfaces based on the PCI-IOV standard that integrate tightly with virtual machines for improved performance and management."

Nik Simpson
Analyst
Burton Group

IDC

"This is a very savvy move on the part of Neterion. They are providing OEMs with an easily integrated product that delivers true 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance for high-end server and storage applications. And they have done this without requiring the vendors to make any changes to their existing Operating Systems or to break the TCP/IP stack."

Vernon Turner
Group Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Computing
IDC

The Linley Group

"Virtualization is a key technology for reducing total cost and complexity. However, applications that required high-performance systems experienced I/O bottlenecks that limited their virtualization opportunities. The IOV standard was designed to eliminate these bottlenecks and open up all applications to virtualization. Neterion's SR-IOV compliant
10 GbE adapters, with support for VMware's NetQueue technology, demonstrated near
10 Gbps line rate throughput under VMware ESX Server 3.5. This kind of performance makes it possible to virtualize even the most I/O intensive applications in enterprise data centers."

Bob Wheeler
Senior Analyst
The Linley Group

"As 10GbE continues to make inroads in the data center, Neterion's evolutionary strategy is a sound one and the company appears to understand what it takes to be a leader in the market."

Jag Bolaria
Senior Analyst
The Linley Group

Enterprise Strategy Group

"Server virtualization promises improved hardware utilization and physical server consolidation, however contention at the I/O level has created a bottleneck that has prevented end users from maximizing the true potential of this technology. Neterion's 10 Gigabit Ethernet adaptor helps eliminate this bottleneck by offloading I/O processing and returning CPU horsepower back to the pool of virtual machines."

Mark Bowker
Analyst
Enterprise Strategy Group

"We have been tracking the iSCSI storage market for some time, and all the needed technology is reaching the market. One key component is adoption of 10 Gbps Ethernet, which will make available the capacity needed to build Ethernet based storage networking systems. Neterion, with the introduction of its Xframe products, will be supporting the adoption of 10 Gbps SAN's in the Ethernet environment."

Bob Graham
Enterprise Strategy Group

The Clipper Group, Inc.

"As clients get more powerful and productivity expectations continue to rise, the need for 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the data center will become real in the forseeable future. Neterion has a clear understanding of the market drivers for this technology and is saying the time to begin is now."

Anne MacFarland
Director
Enterprise Architectures and Infrastructure Solutions
The Clipper Group

The Taneja Group

"One of the main problems in virtualized server environments is that virtual machines have been forced to share a single physical adapter to meet their I/O needs, which has created a serious bottleneck for I/O intensive applications. Neterion’s multi-channel, 10 GbE approach to I/O virtualization solves this problem and enables corporate users to virtualize a whole new class of applications, while fully leveraging existing IP-based networks and administration tools. Neterion's support of the emerging PCI-SIG IOV standards, which are also backed by HP and IBM, makes this new offering even more compelling."

Jeff Byrne
Senior Analyst and Consultant
Taneja Group

"The recent adoption of the iSCSI standard for SANS should provide a real "first mover" advantage for Neterion and their Xframe product. I can think of several storage companies that would want to look at the capabilities that this product offers."

Arun Taneja
Founder
The Taneja Group

Storage Switzerland

"Today, many IT managers are being advised to virtualize all of the non-I/O intensive applications and offload the I/O intensive applications onto other servers. However, Neterion is changing this statement and has raised the bar further with a solution that allows you to virtualize even the most I/O intensive applications and add more virtual machines, while maintaining performance throughput of non-virtualized environments. Neterion's 10 GbE solution is the key technology enabler to take advantage of full virtualization at the I/O level, increase server utilization efficiencies, and realize acquisition cost and TCO reductions from virtualization upfront."

George Crump
Founder and Analyst
Storage Switzerland

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