I must admit I was one of those folks that were intrigued by the idea of I/O virtualization. I led sessions at conferences exploring the various ways one could connect their servers and peripherals to each other. The very idea that I could share expensive resources like RAID controllers and network connections from a shared pool seemed like a path to the flexibility I always wanted. Apparently most of you disagreed as at least one I/O virtualization pioneer, Virtensys, bit the dust this week.
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