Data centers have been embracing a range of virtualization technologies in the pursuit of increase utilization, efficiency and manageability. Storage virtualization has been with us for some time. Server virtualization is now seeing increasing deployment across the full range of data centers. I/O virtualization is a key emerging technology which completes the evolution of the data center into the dynamic, highly efficient application platform required by today's businesses. This session will describe the concepts behind I/O consolidation and virtualization - particularly in the context of standard I/O interconnect - PCI Express - and consider its synergies with the other virtualization and I/O technologies.read more