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 in using software-based network interface cards and host bus adaptors. They don't scale well in I/O-centric loads running on scaled-out architectures. The CEO of a leading virtualization companies said, 'Software virtualization addresses 80% of the market and it leav...Nov. 6, 2008 06:15 AM EST Reads: 4,431
