Managed cloud computing services provider PrimaCloud has deployed the Xsigo I/O Director as the foundation of its new service offering.
Xsigo says the virtual I/O architecture allows customers to provision a complete virtual private data center in just five minutes, a task that would otherwise require days or weeks. With Xsigo, PrimaCloud maintains 99.99 percent uptime at half the cost and in 85 percent less physical data center space than would be otherwise possible. Capital and operational cost savings enabled by Xsigo virtual I/O are expected to exceed $1 million in the company's first year of operation.
Xsigo virtual I/O allowed PrimaCloud to deploy a fault-tolerant architecture based on highly dense, quad-server systems that package 48 processing cores within a compact 2U high chassis, reducing data center space requirements by 85 percent compared with conventional 4U high servers. By providing 40 Gb of bandwidth to each server while consuming only two PCI slots, Xsigo says its virtual I/O allowed PrimaCloud to deliver superior performance from more than 200 virtual machines per 2U system, a compute density that is believed to be the industry's highest.
