Xiotech Corporation announced that Albion College chose two Xiotech(R) Magnitude 3D(R) 4000 
(SAN) systems, along with TimeScale(R) GeoRep software. The new storage systems and software will support the college’s move to a virtualized server environment, while ensuring student, faculty and administrative files are available and protected from natural and unnatural events.
Founded in 1835, Albion, Mich.-based Albion College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college. The school provides educational and research services to more than 1,900 students and 135 full-time faculty members.
To continue offering its students and faculty members new and improved technology services, Albion College needed to upgrade its existing IT infrastructure and stop server sprawl. From 1998 to 2008 the college added 50 physical servers to its data center, bringing the total number of servers to 70. Management of all these servers and their direct-attached storage was taking a tremendous amount of staff time.
