Data center hardware vendor Xsigo said this morning that it’s rolling out its Data Center Fabric line, a new product family that previously has only been available to a few hundred select clients. The main element in the value proposition is the software powering it, and the fact that it – through so called virtual connections – facilitates remote network maintenance in a way that significantly reduces downtime.

Data Center Fabric features three different offerings, starting with the Xsigo Fabric Director. It’s the piece hardware that actually connects to the server via 10G Ethernet or InfiniBand port.  It’s joined by the Xsigo Fabric Manager administration software that enables the admin to run their infrastructure from a single pane of glass, and the Xsigo Fabric Accelerator. The latter product manages Ethernet and Fibre Channel traffic that goes through Xsigo’s fabric, and completes the software-driven network picture.

These are all coupled with an add-on called the Fabric Performance Monitor that displays I/O and historical performance.

This portfolio not only launched today but also received a big boost with the addition of several new features.  All the major hypervisors including Oracle Virtual Machine, Red Hat and Enterprise Virtualization are now supported, as well as HP Gen 8, Dell’s 12th generation Poweredge, and IBM M4 series servers. The software has been tweaked a bit for more efficiency and connectivity has been sped up as well.

“As the world’s leading risk-consulting company, Kroll Factual Data supplies timely, accurate information to our clients hundreds of thousands of times a day,” said Russ Donnan, CIO of Kroll Factual Data. “We depend on the Xsigo Data Center Fabric to provide a fast, highly reliable platform so we can deliver a great user experience while getting the greatest possible efficiency from our Microsoft Hyper-V servers.”