Xiotech Corporation — Leading the industry in intelligent application storage

Xiotech Corporation is one of the largest privately held data storage companies in the world. Xiotech has built a diverse base of customers globally and consistently ranks as one of the top vendors in the industry in customer satisfaction ratings.

The company's patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology serves as the foundation of its Emprise line of storage hardware products, which deliver the industry's highest performing, most reliable application-oriented data storage. ISE enables 100 percent usable storage capacity, with zero drop in performance as drives are fully utilized. Xiotech systems provide more performance with less hardware because of their efficiency, allowing organizations to scale their storage infrastructures up and out with unmatched flexibility. According to an independent lab evaluation by industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group, "the company's price-performance in SPC-1 and SPC-2 tests was better than all of the competition regardless of RAID protection or system size."¹

Xiotech has been first to market in many areas of storage, including Web Services and storage virtualization. ISE represents an intelligent storage architecture that can meet the demands of performance, data growth, protection, availability, and operating cost requirements in today's data centers. The company's differentiation in this emerging space was recently noted by research firm Open Bench Labs: "Xiotech's fundamental change in the underlying technology of storage systems transforms the notion of a basic storage building block for IT and OEM users: Fundamental storage building blocks are now application-centric rather than connection- centric devices."²

Analyst firm ESG also commented:

"Using a sealed 'no-touch' approach that turns a group of drives into a foundational storage element with excellent price-performance that fixes itself, ESG believes that Xiotech has developed game changing technology that experienced storage administrators would be wise to consider."³

ISE technology also offers availability and data protection through a combination of patented preventive and self-healing capabilities. All ISE-based products offer the industry's only five-year hardware warranty and are managed via a web services layer called Cortex. Storage Management software called ICON Manager is also available, which includes simplified provisioning and management of storage in virtualized server environments via Virtual View.

Xiotech operates three primary offices — headquarters in Eden Prairie, MN and engineering and development centers in Colorado Springs, CO and Hyderabad, India — and has field sales and system support teams in many other cities across the United States.

¹Enterprise Strategy Group Lab Validation Report, April 2008. Tony Palmer With Brian Garrett.
²"High-Performance Application-centric Storage for Virtualization and Consolidation".
Open Bench Labs, May 2009.
³Enterprise Strategy Group Lab Validation Report, April 2008. Tony Palmer With Brian Garrett.