XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen
™ hypervisor, today announced that KBC Clearing, a financial services firm providing cost-efficient clearing, execution and prime brokerage services, has deployed XenSource to virtualize their data center. XenSource
’s XenEnterprise has already helped the company achieve server consolidation - simplifying management and significantly reducing costs.
“We follow banking restrictions which require the separation of certain services on different servers,” said Rob de Wit, IT specialist of KBC Clearing. “XenSource has made our lives much easier by allowing us to follow these regulations through the provisioning of virtual servers. We have found XenEnterprise easy to use, enabling us to create virtual machines in minutes and reduce the number of physical servers, helping to simplify our data center and allowing us to more easily manage our virtual environments.”
KBC Clearing researched other vendors before deciding to virtualize with XenSource. The company made their decision after testing both VMware ESX and XenEnterprise, and finding XenEnterprise’s performance to be superior. Since deployment in July 2006, KBC Clearing has reduced its data center to an eighth of its original physical size, and cut costs by not needing to manage and purchase additional physical servers.
“Like many other XenSource customers, KBC Clearing chose XenSource based on the high performance and ease of use of our products including XenEnterprise,” said John Bara, vice president of marketing at XenSource. “XenEnterprise enables customers to achieve the benefits of virtualization quickly, easily and dependably. We are pleased to welcome KBC Clearing to our expanding list of customers.”
About XenSource Products
For enterprises, IT professionals and technology enthusiasts seeking to benefit from virtualization of Windows and Linux in x86 server environments, XenSource products offer easy to use multi-OS virtualization solutions with built-in virtual machine lifecycle management, at breakthrough price and performance. The benefits from increased server utilization result in efficiency and savings on data center management and operational costs.
XenSource products offer the following key benefits:
- Superior Bare Metal Performance: bare-metal Windows and Linux performance leveraging the Xen paravirtualized architecture and hardware virtualization capabilities of Intel® VT and AMD® V enabled processors.
- Easy to use: automated step by step installers and a comprehensive management toolkit combined into a single package enable customers to get Xen up and running fast and also quickly build and manage a virtualization infrastructure.
- Open Source Model: built on the open source Xen™ Hypervisor which benefits from regular innovations and contributions from hundreds of top developers from companies including IBM, HP, Intel, AMD and many others. Because of the open source nature of Xen, new features are made available at a much faster pace than proprietary virtualization offerings or those within operating systems projects with multi-year development cycles.
- Unified Architecture: with a single, lightweight unified architecture based on Xen, customers can confidently implement and know they will be able to easily move up the XenSource product ladder with a simple license key. Similarly, all XenSource products share a common and standard API and SDK, allowing developers and ISVs to write once for all XenSource products. The Xen architecture is extremely lightweight and ideal as an embeddable virtualization component for OEMs.
- Broadest Hardware Device Support: XenSource products leverage the existing device drivers in the Linux kernel stack, giving our products a broad and tested set of hardware device drivers enabling customers to run within diverse hardware environments with confidence.