Xsigo Systems today unveiled improvements to its Open Fabric Architecture with the latest release of its Data Center Fabric product, which includes better software-defined networking management and support for five major hypervisors with 56 Gbps server-to-server connections.
San Jose, Calif.-based Xsigo's hardware and software products are currently used in 300 fabric deployments. Recent Xsigo fabric deployments include a 55,000-seat virtual desktop infrastructure fabric at Royal Bank of Scotland by Fujitsu and a large enterprise public cloud deployment by Canadian telecommunications giant Telus.
The Xsigo fabric connects servers and virtual machines to anything in the data center: networks, storage, servers or virtual machines, regardless of the OS or hypervisor, connectivity type or vendor. Multiple connections are virtualized over a single server cable, and are created and managed entirely in software.
Jon Toor, Xsigo's VP of marketing, says the company's data fabric connects all elements of the data center in a manner that gets rid of the "cable spaghetti." "Essentially, it's a software-defined network and a wire-once infrastructure," he says.
New features of the Xsigo Data Center Fabric product line include:
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