Who are we?

The Sizing Servers Lab is a government subsidized and acknowledged research lab, located in the University College of Western Flanders, doing razor sharp research into the newest server technologies, both hardware- and softwarewise.

For over 4 years, the lab has offered several companies the opportunity to access this expertise, and thanks to a dynamic and growing team, Sizing Servers is able to offer highly specialized services to exactly those companies in need of expertise that require a deep and academic understanding of the subject matter.

Over the past few years, the lab has always been just ahead of the industry by diving deep into all the different aspects of virtualization and their impact on the performance of the server landscape. The results of this research, enhanced by our in-house developed unique stress testing software vApus, have already been published to publications read by IT professionals from all over the world, and a successful themeday that received the attention of over 100 visitors.

Thanks to the very broad collection of important partners the lab is able to enjoy, it is now capable of putting extensive research into the next big wave of innovation: Cloud Computing.

Are you interested in learning more about us? Definitely read on!

Why would you choose us?

Sizing Servers offers you more than just a story. In light of our IWT TETRA-project "Serveroptimization by stress testing and virtualization", the lab offered services to a plethora of SMB's in its user group. Furthermore, our collaboration with the University of Ghent takes shape in several kinds of projects, not the least of which is teaching a course on virtualization to companies all over the world. With the launch of the IWT VIS-project "Virtualization and Stress testing, sized for the SMB", it aims to offer its services to a much wider array of companies. 

Below is a list of some of the many SMB's we have worked with.