Xsigo announced that Georgia Tech's College of Computing has deployed Xsigo's I/O virtualization technology into a research environment at the Center of Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Xsigo's VP 780 I/O Director has been implemented into CERCS latest computing research project on virtual server performance management which will study the impact of virtual machines running on multiple platforms.

"Xsigo allows us to virtualize I/O which brings unprecedented levels of IT efficiency to our research project," said Dr. Ada Gavrilovska, research scientist at CERCS. "Such efficiencies are critical in keeping the project on track and on budget."

CERCS is one of the largest experimental systems programs in the U.S. to focus on complex hardware, communications, and system-level software and applications, leading to the innovation of new information and computing technologies. Xsigo's I/O Director is integrated in one of CERCS' labs which was created to facilitate research aimed at understanding the issues of meeting the specific performance requirements of enterprise computing applications.

Xsigo's technology plays a key role by managing platform resources with fabric-based I/O. Xsigo's I/O Director allows the CERCS team to provision I/O resources virtually and on the fly, instead of using traditional methods that are time consuming and labor intensive. Because Xsigo replaces physical network and storage interfaces (NICs and HBAs) with virtual resources, changes to a single server take only a few minutes instead of days or weeks using conventional I/O configuration processes.

"We couldn't believe how easy it was to get Xsigo's VP I/O Director up and running in our research environment," added Ada Gavrilovska. "The product was installed and fully operational in just a few hours. We were impressed that such a powerful system was surprisingly simple to use."

Using Xsigo's technology, it is estimated that users can lower their server-related operational expenses by up to 80%, cut capital costs by 50%, and use 70% less cabling by using Xsigo's technology -- resulting in 100x faster server management. Xsigo's VP780 I/O Director was recently awarded "Product of the Year" in the networking equipment category for 2007 by Storage Magazine-SearchStorage.com.

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