Shreyas Shah is chief systems architect at PLX Technology, responsible for architecture and system applications of PLX's PCI Express IOV switching products. He has nearly 15+ years of experience in engineering, with an emphasis on the computing, networking and storage communications market segment. Before joining PLX, he held engineering positions in chip and system architecture at Alantec/FORE/Marconi communications, Sisilk networks, Fabric7 Systems. Lastly he was Founder and CTO of Xsigo systems (IO Virtualization Company). Shreyas holds an MSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology, India.
There are pitfalls involved in using software-based network interface cards
(NIC) and host bus adaptors (HBA) as they don’t scale well in I/O-centric
loads running on scaled-out architectures. The CEO of one of the leading
virtualization companies has said, “Software virtualization addresses 80%
of the market and it leaves 20% for hardware-based I/O virtualization.”
Scaled-out architectures and stateless computing are the norm in the
computing business. I/O devices are being pulled out and connected through
PCI Express Gen 2 as a step toward scaled-out architectures. A second step is
to combine Ethernet and Fibre Channel onto Fiber Channel Over Ethernet. FCoE
scales well and provides unparalleled performance to the system. The number
of I/O connections and I/O devices r... (more)
Shreyas Shah is chief systems architect at PLX Technology, responsible for architecture and system applications of PLX's PCI Express IOV switching products. He has nearly 15+ years of experience in engineering, with an emphasis on the computing, networking and storage communications market segment. Before joining PLX, he held engineering positions in chip and system architecture at Alantec/FORE/Marconi communications, Sisilk networks, Fabric7 Systems. Lastly he was Founder and CTO of Xsigo systems (IO Virtualization Company). Shreyas holds an MSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology, India.
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