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NextIO Appoints Jaime Edwards as Vice President of Engineering and OperationsAUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)-- NextIO, the pioneer in rack-level IO consolidation and virtualization solutions, today announced that Jaime Edwards has joined the company as vice president of Engineering and Operations. In his new role, Jaime Edwards will be responsible for NextIO's hardware systems design and development, as well as all product manufacturing and operations for the company. "Edwards brings to NextIO a diverse background of product design engineering and project management experience from several Fortune 500 companies, most recently Cisco Systems (News - Alert)," said K.C. Murphy, CEO and co-founder, NextIO. "Edwards' expertise will be an extremely valuable asset to NextIO as we drive the development of our I/O consolidation and virtualization solutions and continue to bring next-generation products to market. We are excited to have him as a member of our executive team." Prir to joining NextIO, Edwards spent more than 10 years with Cisco, where he served as a group manager in the Ethernet Systems Technology group. In this role, he was responsible for multiple simultaneous system- level developments and managed high-level architecture and product line planning. Edwards also held the position of Industrial Communications Group Manager at National Instruments (News - Alert). In this role, he managed the company's hardware and software product development efforts for the Serial and CAN product lines. "I look forward to helping NextIO build upon their hardware systems design plans," said Edwards. "This opportunity allows me to become part of NextIO's talented engineering team and help expand the company's reputation for providing best-in-class, flexible and easy-to-manage data center solutions." About NextIO NextIO provides rack-level IO consolidation and virtualization solutions that maximize performance, productivity and efficiencies of complex server IO. Our innovative architecture is based upon industry standard PCIe switching technology. By separating the compute from the IO we create pools of server IO resources at the rack level that can be shared, virtualized or dynamically allocated across servers within the rack. Data center managers benefit from lower TCO and increased time to revenue. NextIO solutions address data center requirements across multiple industry segments including: Enterprise, Oil & Gas, High Performance Computing, Financial Services, and Government. For more information, visit www.nextio.com.
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