History | X-IO Technologies

The roots of today’s X-IO technologies began
when Seagate Technologies, the world’s
largest manufacturer of disk drives, magnetic
disks, and read-write heads, broke tradition and
began to pioneer a

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radically innovative
storage initiative.

...designed to maintain high availability, dramatically improve speed, provide extreme reliability and spectacular performance, and signficantly reduce the typical power consumption and footprint.

The Advanced Storage Architecture division (which would one day become X-IO), located in Colorado Springs, was charged to develop a storage system...

As emerging technology began to unfold, the
Seagate Team, led by storage innovator

...quickly grew to over 100
staff from 2002 to 2004.

Steve Sicola...

and departed from the industry’s standard 3-year system life.
ISE would extend the life of the storage to well
over 5 years!

reduced service events

in the architecture and continued to refine and improve on the patented ISE technology that it had developed. The ISE incorporated an innovative disk canister technology that also

Seagate invested over

$100 million

The Advanced Storage Architecture division was spun out from Seagate and acquired by Xiotech.
Momentum and unparalleled
innovation continued...

began to pique the interest of business
partners as well as industry analysts, and
the buzz began...

Intelligent Storage Element (ISE)

The compelling story about the

A New Foundation for Storage

Focused exclusively on groundbreaking ISE technology, an exciting new vision unfolds...leading to growth opportunities and international expansion.

Hyper ISE, one of the first flash enabled hybrid storage arrays, is introduced to industry applause. Outstanding architecture called for an outstanding new brand.