COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., January 24, 2012 – XIO, the leader in performance driven storage, announced it has been named to CRN’s 2012 Data Center 100 list. This annual list recognizes technology vendors for powering, supporting and protecting today’s data center services in an environmentally and economically friendly manner, while boosting efficiency and productivity. The honor caps a year in which XIO was awarded several channel distinctions by CRN, including the prestigious 5-Star Partner rating.

XIO’s revolutionary HDD/SSD platform Hyper ISE is built upon the field-proven ISE architecture. Designed to drive database, VDI, Business Intelligence, cloud computing and server virtualization initiatives, Hyper ISE integrates seamlessly into existing storage environments and – unlike legacy storage – requires less infrastructure to meet enterprise high-performance demands. With 100% usable capacity, efficiencies in power and cooling, small physical footprint and unmatched reliability, Hyper ISE offers significant reductions in capital and operational expenses.

“We are excited about our inclusion in CRN’s 2012 Data Center 100 List. It underscores our ongoing efforts to equip partners with valuable solutions that meet the demands of today’s enterprise data centers,” said Steve Sicola, CTO at XIO. “Combining SSD performance with HDD capacity, Hyper ISE has proven to be a winning solution, providing unmatched storage performance and capacity ratios for its price, a space-saving design and the lowest power consumption in the industry.”

Fusing SSD and HDD into a single pool of capacity, Hyper ISE provides up to 200,000 IOPS in a 3U, 14.4 TB storage system. Addressing customer and partner demands for massively scalable, high-performance storage environments, XIO’s X-Volume software enables users to create and manage pools of virtualized storage across multiple Hyper ISE systems to achieve millions of IOPS. Offering the industry’s best balance of price, performance and capacity, Hyper ISE is backed by an unmatched 5-year, no-cost standard hardware warranty.

“The 2012 Data Center 100 list recognizes vendors that, over the course of 2011, have shown a dedication to the innovation and advancement of today’s data center services,” said Kelley Damore, Vice President and Editorial Director for UBM Channel. “The recent upsurge in cloud computing has solution providers searching for new ways to ensure their clients maintain connectivity while mitigating costs and security threats. We congratulate each vendor on the 2012 Data Center 100 list for providing a significant growth opportunity for solution providers to build their business by offering cutting-edge products and services to customers.”

Selected by CRN’s editorial staff, the 2012 Data Center 100 list is featured in the January issue of CRN Magazine and will be featured online at www.crn.com.

About XIO

XIO is the leader in performance driven storage with the best price/performance/capacity ratios of any solution in the market. XIO pioneered the only True SHD storage system that amalgamates SSD and HDD in a single pool of storage, resulting in extreme performance that changes the economics of the data center. XIO empowers enterprises to drive database performance to its limits, accelerate business analytics, enable VDI deployments and greatly improve their server virtualization consolidation ratios. XIO’s ISE architecture is field-proven with thousands of deployments worldwide. Enterprise-class reliability and ease of use are in our DNA and core aspects of all our storage systems. For more information, visit www.xiostorage.com or email us at fastforever@XIOstorage.com.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – November 28, 2011 – XIO, the leader in performance driven storage, today announced that its Hyper ISE solution was named a double gold medal award winner by Penton Media. The company’s revolutionary HDD/SSD platform secured “2011 Editors’ Best Awards” in the Hardware: Storage category of both Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

The 2011 Editors’ Best Awards are based on a product’s strategic importance to market, its competitive advantages and its value to customers. According to Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, “At a turning point in the trajectory of the storage industry, XIO – with its awesome Hyper ISE – is pioneering a unique path that focuses on performance.”

For the honors, both publications interviewed David Hayes, Director of the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center, which has conducted rigorous performance and scalability benchmarking tests of a single XIO Hyper ISE datapac – one half of a full ISE system capacity. Hayes noted: “MPSC hardware-testing projects are designed to put maximum stress on systems so that customers can have the utmost confidence in deploying them in support of business-critical functions. In such a demanding context, XIO Hyper ISE performed beyond our wildest expectations. We estimate it would take an increase of workload by a factor of 10 to push the Hyper ISE we tested to its actual performance threshold.”

“We are thrilled to achieve these two tremendous accolades, which further underscore Hyper ISE as the storage platform for fueling performance of the Microsoft apps – Exchange, SQL Server, Hyper-V – that are the lifeblood of today’s businesses,” said Steve Sicola, CTO at XIO. “Leveraging real-time performance analysis and patented Continuous Adaptive Data Placement technology, Hyper ISE ensures that the right data is in the right place at the right time – always. The result: enterprises enjoy SSD performance with HDD capacity and price for all of their data – without any administration to manage tiering. That powerful proposition is unprecedented in the market.”

Built upon the field-proven ISE architecture and its  thousands of  deployments worldwide, Hyper ISE is architected to drive database, VDI, cloud computing and server virtualization initiatives. Fusing SSD and HDD into a single pool of capacity, Hyper ISE provides up to 200,000 IOPS in a 3U, 14.4 TB storage system. Addressing customer demands for massively scalable, high-performance storage environments, XIO’s X-Volume software enables users to create and manage pools of virtualized storage across multiple Hyper ISE systems to achieve millions of IOPS. Offering the industry’s best balance of price, performance and capacity, Hyper ISE is backed by an unmatched 5-year, no-cost standard hardware warranty.

About XIO

XIO is the leader in performance driven storage with the best price/performance/ capacity ratios of any solution in the market. XIO pioneered the only True SHD storage system that amalgamates SSD and HDD in a single pool of storage, resulting in extreme performance that changes the economics of the data center. XIO empowers enterprises to drive database performance to its limits, accelerate business analytics, enable VDI deployments and greatly improve their server virtualization consolidation ratios. XIO’s ISE architecture is field-proven with thousands of deployments worldwide.  Enterprise-class reliability and ease of use are in our DNA and core aspects of all our storage systems. For more information, visit www.xiostorage.com or email us at fastforever@XIOstorage.com.

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These changes come as XIO has completed its very successful transition from its legacy Magnitude storage line to a complete focus on ISE-based storage, and specifically the Hyper ISE platform – which is hailed as the first “unbreakable storage system for Microsoft.” Hyper ISE was delivered to market in the Summer of 2011, represented the fastest product ramp in the company’s history and now represents 80 percent of XIO’s business.

“In the nearly two years that I have been with XIO, the company has experienced an incredible period of innovation and growth,” said Atkinson. “With the overwhelming reception of the Hyper ISE platform, the ability to bring John on board and allow me to focus on strategic growth initiatives, strengthens a bench that can drive what we have built to its full potential.”

The company has also re-aligned its sales team to reflect its increased focus on the channel. As part of this effort, XIO today also announced the promotions of Shawn Kinnear and Dave Ornstein to vice presidents of sales for the western and eastern US regions respectively. Kinnear has been with the company for six years and brings over 20 years of sales and sales management experience in the technology industry including Cotelligent, Quest Software and Computer Associates. Ornstein has been with the company three years. He has over 15 years of technology sales and sales management in both direct and indirect models including positions at both Compaq and HP. Kinnear and Ornstein will be responsible for all sales and pre-sales activities and be instrumental in setting go to market strategies for XIO. They replace recently departed VP of worldwide sales, Mark Glasgow.

“Having served as both a senior executive and an investor in high growth companies, I’ve been able to see the opportunities and challenges faced by corporate teams from many different angles,” added Beletic. “XIO is a company that has the potential to be truly disruptive in multiple markets with exceptional growth opportunities. I am excited to have the opportunity to benefit from the great foundation that Alan and his team have built, and take it to the next level.”

Beletic joins XIO after nearly a decade serving as venture partner and board member of numerous firms while at Oak Investment Partners. Prior to Oak, Beletic spent nearly 25 years in senior executive roles – principally as president and chief executive officer –of high-growth technology and communications companies including Tigon, PageMart and Weblink Wireless. He is currently chairman of the board of iPass, Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS) and lead director of Tessco Technologies (NASDAQ: TESS). Previously, he also served on the boards of Scale Eight and Data Return.

About XIO

XIO is the leader in performance driven storage with the best price/ performance/ capacity ratios of any solution in the market. XIO pioneered the only True SHD storage system that amalgamates SSD and HDD in a single pool of storage, resulting in extreme performance that changes the economics of the data center. XIO empowers enterprises to drive database performance to its limits, accelerate business analytics, enable VDI deployments and greatly improve their server virtualization consolidation ratios. In addition, enterprise-class reliability and ease of use are in our DNA and core aspects of all our storage systems. XIO is field-proven with thousands of deployments worldwide.

ISE Storage Systems

The ISE storage system is an easy to use, high performance fibre channel storage system supporting SAS HDDs. ISE storage provides enterprise-class reliability with self-healing capabilities. ISE storage systems are an excellent solution for Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Exchange 2010, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint and Oracle.

Solving a Data Storage Dilemma

Purpose-built for server & desktop virtualization, cloud computing, and other applications with multi-tenant workloads generating near-simultaneous I/O requests to shared storage resources; ISE storage systems are a simple and efficient way to rapidly deliver critical information across the enterprise.

Predictable Performance

As capacity is consumed, ISE storage system performance remains constant at over 90% utilization. ISE performance does not degrade as capacity is used as in the case of traditional frame-based storage arrays.

Fast Forever

ISE storage systems provide high performance throughout the complete lifecycle due to the way they handle vibration, heat dissipation, data placement, and drive reliability. Additionally, the disk drives within ISE storage systems are not treated as individual and disposable components, but rather as a single organism. As such, they work congruently resulting in higher performance and reliability.

ISE storage systems reach reliability levels impossible for standard drives and enclosures, providing more than 100 times the reliability of a regular disk drive enclosed in a typical storage drive bay—significantly reducing service events and their impact on IT organizations.

Manage multiple, simultaneous streaming and random I/O patterns with advanced scheduling algorithms and unique queue priority capabilities.

Performance-Driven Storage

ISE 28.8 is the latest in a new class of storage systems achieving up to 15,000 IOPS in a single 3U, 28.8 TB system. That is over .5 IOPS per gigabyte. ISE 28.8 provides an ideal balance of price, performance, capacity, and reliability. ISE 28.8 outperforms traditional disk systems by delivering 2-3 times the number of IOPS per disk. ISE is designed specifically for performance-driven applications that require enterprise-class reliability.

ISE 28.8 is a Fibre Channel-based 3U storage system with 28.8 TB of capacity after sparing, supporting SAS HDD drives. It provides true split-second active-active failover for high availability.

The only 5-Year Warranty in Storage

ISE storage is backed by a no cost 5-year hardware warranty based on its reliability and self-healing capabilities. XIO is the only storage company willing to stand by its reliability claim.

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Mr. Mark Dunlap, VP of Purchasing for Arbitech, added: “The addition of XIO to our product offering is a natural progression for Arbitech.  As Arbitech has become the preeminent distributor in the independent channel, it has sought to partner with established manufacturers in more traditional relationships.  XIO is a leading storage innovator that is recognized globally for its products.”

“It is essential to build a strong ecosystem of partners in order to accelerate growth,” said Alan Atkinson, President and CEO of XIO.  ”It is as equally important to make sure they are the right partners.  Arbitech is very successful and has experienced tremendous growth but still provides the individual attention needed to make relationships like this work.   The XIO Hyper ISE storage system is a unique and valuable product that is ideal for Arbitech’s channel.”

They XIO Hyper ISE storage system provides over 200,000 IOPS and greatly reduces database query times, significantly increases server consolidation and enables VDI projects supporting thousands of virtual desktops on a single system.

“The XIO Hyper ISE is in a class by itself and provides a solution in a rapidly emerging performance-driven storage market.  Arbitech is interested in working with leaders that solve real problems.  That is why we partnered with XIO,” said Mr. Binford.

“The combination of the Hyper ISE and X-Volume enables us to aggregate multiple systems to achieve over a million IOPS far more cost effectively than anything else that is out there.  We are talking a whole new ball game here,” added Mr. Atkinson.

About Arbitech

Arbitech, LLC, founded in August 2000, has achieved over a billion dollars in total sales. Arbitech is the nation’s leading alternative distributor of servers, storage, virtualization, networking and mobile solutions including IBM, HP, Cisco, Eaton, VMware, Kingston, Toshiba, PanoLogic, Lenovo, Qlogic, XIO and other manufacturers. By offering creative, cost-effective solutions, Arbitech enables its reseller partners to win more business and earn additional profit margin. For more information please visit www.arbitech.com.

About XIO

XIO is the leader in performance-driven storage with the best price/performance/capacity ratios of any solution in the market. XIO pioneered the only True SHD storage system that amalgamates SSD and HDD in a single pool of storage, resulting in extreme performance that changes the economics of the data center.  XIO empowers enterprises to drive database performance to its limits, accelerate business analytics, enable VDI deployments, and greatly improve their server virtualization consolidation ratios. In addition, enterprise-class reliability and ease of use are in our DNA and core aspects of all our storage systems. XIO is field-proven with thousands of deployments worldwide.