From Deni Conner at Network World…
One of the coolest deals happened this week in the storage arena. I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo teamed up with Dell to expand Dell's data center offerings. In addition to reselling Xsigo's I/O Director, Dell will also collaborate with the company on technology roadmaps and channel resources.
The I/O Director will be paired with the full line of Dell products – PowerEdge servers, PowerVault storage, EqualLogic iSCSI storage and Dell/EMC branded storage
I/O virtualization is the next frontier in data center virtualization and the vendors are scrambling to come up with answers. Xsigo has a unique external approach. HP is doing it in the BladeSystem with Virtual Connect.
I haven’t had the time to figure out what the other vendors (IBM, SUN) are doing.
One thing seems obvious to me with this announcement though: Dell-Xsigo-EMC. Anyone else see a synergy for a single competitor to HP and IBM?
