Kroll Factual Data Deployed Xsigo Virtual I/O Directors

Xsigo Systems, Inc., provider of virtualized data center infrastructure, announced that Kroll Factual Data, a division of Kroll, an international risk consulting company, has deployed Xsigo virtual I/O in its virtualized data center.

As a result, the firm increased the transaction capacity of its 700 Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines by 50 percent and gained six times more bandwidth per server at 50 percent less cost than alternative 10 gigabit Ethernet-based solutions.

"Our demand for IT capacity is exploding, and we needed an infrastructure solution that would let us do more right now, while giving us headroom to grow in the future," said Galen Wiles, director of IT for Kroll Factual Data. "We looked at FCoE-based solutions and at 10 gigabit Ethernet, but felt that Xsigo’s solution best meets the combination of interoperability, performance, and value that we need."

Kroll Factual Data deployed a virtualized data center infrastructure solution consisting of a pair of Xsigo VP780 I/O Directors with 20Gb server interconnects, Dell blade servers, Microsoft Hyper-V software, Hitachi AMS 2500 storage arrays, and FalconStor storage virtualization software.

In a recent example, the firm resolved an I/O contention issue in two hours with Xsigo virtual I/O, rather than the four to five days it would have taken to re-configure a physical network.