News & Media
As a leading storage innovator, X-IO is always close to the news pages often in the spotlight. This section will keep you up to date with recent news and articles in various web publications. If you are interested in using our logo, please review our guidelines.
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04/10/2012
VirtReview: X-IO Hyper ISE Blows the Doors Off Benchmark Tests
“X-IO has a reputation for producing state-of-the-art storage products, and the star of the bunch is its Intelligent Storage Elements (ISE) and architecture, which is a tightly integrated storage environment, purpose-built to maximize performance and reliability.” Read More
03/27/2012
Microsoft partner centre: X-IO storage bricks really stack up
Hyping up Hyper ISE: the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center is raving about X-IO’s ISE storage brick performance, saying it outperformed all other storage systems that the centre has tested over the past three years.
The centre found… Read More
03/27/2012
The VAR Guy: X-IO Storage Earns Microsoft Partner Solutions Center Honors
We’ve been covering a smattering of storage-related news of late, and it’s not surprising: Storage is bursting at the seams. X-IO is looking capitalize on that demand by flexing its storage muscle, all thanks to the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center. According to Microsoft-run storage benchmarks, X-IO’s Hyper-ISE exceeded the “wildest expectations.” The VAR Guy’s interest is piqued … Read More
Hyper ISE Outperformed All Other Storage Systems Tested By Microsoft Partner Solutions Center Over the Last Three Years Colorado Springs, Colo. – March 26, 2012 – Storage industry innovator X-IO today announced that its Intelligent Storage Elements (ISE) and architecture … Read More
03/23/2012
Windows IT Pro: Hybrid Solid State Disk Solutions
High performance and capacity at a lower cost than pure SSDs Read More
QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC) today announced that it has teamed with Microsoft Corp., Temenos and X-IO Technologies to achieve record-breaking results on the TEMENOS T24 (T24) performance benchmark. The high-water benchmark testing, conducted at the Microsoft Platform Adoption Center using QLogic® 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters, SQL Server 2012 and X-IO Hyper ISE storage, included a mix of standard, real-world banking transactions typical for a large tier-1 retail bank with an extensive customer base. Read More
Scalability and Significant Cost Savings Validated in Benchmark Tests Read More
01/24/2012
XIO Named to UBM Channel’s CRN Data Center 100
Hyper ISE Recognized for Increasing Data Center Efficiency, Performance and ROI while Reducing Energy Consumption, Waste and Cost COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., January 24, 2012 – XIO, the leader in performance driven storage, announced it has been named to CRN’s 2012 … Read More
12/01/2011
Businessweek: Disk Drives’ Micro-Vibration Problem
“Startups are figuring out ways to cut down on the “micro-vibrations” that make hard drives less efficient” a conversation with XIO Chief Technology Officer Steve Sicola Read More
11/28/2011
XIO’s Hyper ISE Named “Editors’ Best” by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine
Achieves Double Top Honors; Captures Gold Medal Awards in the Hardware: Storage Category of Both Publications COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – November 28, 2011 – XIO, the leader in performance driven storage, today announced that its Hyper ISE solution was named … Read More
11/08/2011
The Gazette: Springs-based XIO names new CEO
THE GAZETTE – Colorado Springs-based computer storage manufacturer XIO named a veteran technology executive who is a partner from a venture capital fund that owns a majority of the company as president and CEO and made its former CEO a non-executive chairman Tuesday. Read More
11/08/2011
Press Release: XIO Promotes Alan Atkinson to Chairman; Appoints Industry Veteran as CEO
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – November 8, 2011 – XIO the leader in performance driven storage, today announced a series of key executive moves aimed at accelerating the company’s record growth behind the groundbreaking Hyper ISE platform. The moves are led … Read More
11/04/2011
CTR Blog: The Truth About Storage, Part Two by Steve Sicola
This blog is the second in a two-part series. Read More
11/01/2011
CTR Blog: The Truth About Storage, Part One by Steve Sicola
This blog is the first in a two-part series. The second part will uncover the truths, half-truths and myths about storage. Read More
10/11/2011
CTR: A Q&A with Alan Atkinson, XIO’s president and CEO – What’s in a Name?
A Look at the ‘New’ XIO and its Unique Approach to Optimizing SSD Performance Read More
09/22/2011
Arbitech, LLC and XIO Storage Inc Enter Into a Definitive Distribution Agreement
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Arbitech, LLC and XIO Storage Inc, announced today the execution of a definitive distribution agreement. Arbitech is authorized to distribute all products offered by XIO in the United States and Canada. Mr. Jim … Read More
08/29/2011
Press Release: XIO – The Leader in Performance Driven Storage
Establishes 200,000 IOPS Benchmark in SSD/HDD Platform with Hyper ISE Storage System Offering Groundbreaking Price/Performance/Capacity Ratios LAS VEGAS, VMWORLD 2011, BOOTH #1235 and COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – August 29, 2011 – Xiotech Corporation today announced the change of the company … Read More
08/25/2011
Xiotech changes name, improves ISE
Xiotech is changing its name to XIO (pronounced X-I-O) as part of an overhaul that really started in 2008 when it launched its ISE architecture and accelerated with the appointment of Alan Atkinson as CEO in late 2009. Read More
08/25/2011
The need for speed
Servers and networks have the pedal to metal, but storage is struggling to keep up. As applications crave more and more performance, data storage vendors will need to find new solutions. Read More
08/25/2011
Xiotech becomes banking apps bottleneck-buster
All change, all change. Xiotech has gained new funding, a new marketing officer, changed its marketing, has benchmarks coming and is setting up a European infrastructure. Read More
08/25/2011
Xiotech Hailed the First Unbreakable Storage System for Microsoft
Speed is tantamount to efficiency when you speak of IT solutions. The faster, the better. It saves time, saves energy and delivers fast results. This concept powers Xiotech, a company that shatters binary solutions and offers ground-breaking hybrid ISE or Intelligent Storage Element. Showing immense potential in bringing high performance solutions to the table, Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) tested Xiotech’s ability to deliver at least 60,000 I/O Operations per second on the company’s ISE. Read More
Talk about a need for speed. The Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) recently hosted one of its partners, Xiotech (www.xiotech.com), in an attempt to achieve 60,000 Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) on the company’s Hybrid Intelligent Storage Element (ISE). Hybrid ISE – which is built to deliver high performance in random I/O workloads such as virtualization, data warehousing and messaging – intelligently integrates HDDs and SSDs into a single ‘logical drive.’ Read More
08/25/2011
Xiotech Provides High-Performance Storage Systems
Xiotech built its systems with cloud and virtual desktop-to-data centers in mind and provides high-performance systems for storage in many innovative ways. Read More
08/25/2011
The Future of Faster, Smaller Storage with Hybrid Solid-State and Spinning Media
Data storage technologies continue to evolve somewhat predictably, with the introduction of smaller and smaller drives holding more and more data. Solid-state media is part of the trend toward faster, smaller storage footprints. Read More
08/25/2011
Xiotech unscabbards go-faster flash-mungous ISE blade
Six months after it was announced, Xiotech’s go-faster flash-enhanced ISE storage blade is here, and ready to rock and roll. Read More
08/25/2011
Xiotech enhances data center efficiency with Hybrid ISE storage platform
Xiotech Corp. announced Wednesday general availability of its Hybrid ISE platform that combines SSD and HDD leveraging its application-aware Continuous Adaptive Data Placement technology providing ideal price/performance/capacity ratios. Read More
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