Neterion Launches 10 GbE Adapter Powered by IOQoS Technology

Neterion, a developer of I/O Virtualization (IOV) in 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) adapters for server and storage environments, has introduced its enhanced 10 GbE adapter that leverages its advanced silicon architecture. The company claims that it’s the industry's only 10 GbE adapter with I/O Quality of Service (IOQoS) technology for virtualized environments.

 

With enterprises moving toward increased densities in virtualized servers, traffic congestion at the I/O level has become a major concern due to multiple workloads with different priority levels running on a single server.

 

Neterion has been introducing innovative solutions over high-speed network interface controllers to address this issue. Neterion's new IOQoS technology delivers guaranteed bandwidth and availability for I/O traffic based on its priority levels in a single 10 GbE adapter to extend the benefits of IOV.

 

The benefits of IOQoS technology are delivered through hypervisor-based software and multiple, true independent channels in Neterion's 10 GbE adapter hardware. This enables IT managers to implement true I/O isolation and specify guaranteed bandwidth for each workload based on its priority in order to enable higher server consolidation in a virtualized environment.

 

Additionally, with Neterion's IOQoS capability, IT managers can now run more virtual machines (VMs) with I/O intensive applications, saving more than 50 percent in TCO and simplifying the management of virtualized infrastructures.

 

"Neterion was focused on addressing customers' needs to maintain guaranteed bandwidth for different I/O traffic within virtualized servers and therefore launched a solution with our newly introduced IOQoS technology," stated Dave Zabrowski, president and CEO of Neterion. "Although other 10 GbE adapters claim support for QoS, guaranteed bandwidth for multiple workloads with a single adapter can only be achieved with true hardware-based, non-blocking, independent I/O channels found in Neterion 10 GbE adapters."