I2O

I 2 O Beats I/O Bottlenecks
High-performance servers will start using a new I/O architecture to boost performance without costing a fortune. From '97, written by Tom Thompson.
http://www.byte.com/art/9708/sec6/art7.htm

I2O Definition
From Webopedia, definition of I2O and links.
http://webopedia.com/TERM/I/I2O.html

What is I2O?
Intelligent Input/Output (I2O) is a hardware specification that describes a model for offloading I/O processing from the CPU. There is no doubt that this is leading to extremely high performance I/O.
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/i2o/what_is_i20.html