written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . november 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message xsigo systems type private industry information technology networking founded 2004 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 . it provided data center network and i o virtualization software and hardware to companies and enterprises . 1 2 contents 1 company 2 products and services 3 references 4 external links company edit xsigo systems was founded in august 2004 by three brothers ashok krishnamurthi r.k. anand and s.k. vinod . 3 and shreyas shah . the privately held company is based in san jose ca and also funded by kleiner perkins khosla ventures 4 north bridge venture partners and greylock partners . 5 ashok krishnamurthi now serves as vice chairman of the company . krishnamurthi who has over 20 years of experience in management and engineering held the positions of vice president and general manager of the infrastructure product line at juniper networks prior to xsigo systems . 6 lloyd carney is 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 us patent 7937447 granted may 3 2011 7 xsigo systems was purchased by oracle corporation . the deal was announced at the end of july 2012 and finalized on september 12 2012 . several companies providers including microsoft and oracle have mentioned xsigo systems . 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 products and services edit 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 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 awards for best network virtualization . 14 references edit computers and electronic equipment xsigo systems inc. . businessweek . mcgraw hill . retrieved june 4 2009 . companies xsigo systems . trade vibes . retrieved june 4 2009 . a b xsigo launches i o virtualization product . network world . september 10 2007 . retrieved june 4 2009 . xsigo systems the next new data center star . businessweek . archived from the original on september 26 2008 . retrieved june 4 2009 . a b c xsigo systems poised for growth raises new vc funding and experiences record growth . marketwire . retrieved june 4 2009 . a b xsigo systems management . xsigo systems . retrieved june 4 2009 . http www.freepatentsonline.com 7937447.pdf softbank telecom and xsigo systems demonstrate automated solution for virtual machine disaster recovery . reuters . may 1 2008 . retrieved june 4 2009 . microsoft virtualization partners xsigo systems . microsoft . retrieved june 4 2009 . xsigo systems streamlines operations and supports rapid growth with oracle e business suite release 12 pdf . oracle corporation . retrieved june 4 2009 . xsigo systems offers seven tips to leverage virtual i o for greener data centers . the data center journal . october 24 2007 . retrieved june 4 2009 . xsigo systems poised for growth raises new vc funding and experiences record growth . newsblaze . june 3 2009 . retrieved june 4 2009 . iper montebello gets more for less with xsigo virtual i o . yahoo finance . march 31 2009 . retrieved june 4 2009 . a b xsigo systems nominated for sys con s virtualization journal readers choice awards . sys con media . retrieved june 4 2009 . xsigo touts i o virtualization . the indian express . india . archived from the original on july 9 2009 . retrieved june 4 2009 . external links edit official website official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title xsigo systems & oldid 739029694 categories technology companies established in 2004networking companies of the united statesnetworking hardware companiescompanies based in californiaoracle acquisitionshidden categories use mdy dates from february 2012articles with a promotional tone from november 2010all articles with a promotional toneofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 11 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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