Xiotech and GlassHouse Team

Xiotech Corporation announced a partnership with GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. The two companies will engage in a range of joint development and marketing activities designed to deliver scalable, manageable and predictable storage solutions to enterprises worldwide.

Explosive data growth has outstripped the legacy storage infrastructure, requiring costly over-provisioning of resources to overcome a significant performance bottleneck. Offering a fresh approach to this well-entrenched business reality, Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology delivers the industry’s highest-performing and most reliable application-oriented data storage. ISE units enable 100 percent usable storage capacity, while maintaining optimal performance as drives approach full utilization. Notably, due to efficiencies inherent in ISE technology, Xiotech allows organizations to scale their storage infrastructures with unprecedented flexibility and cost effectiveness.

"GlassHouse offers Xiotech a proven, established and scalable professional services model for further penetrating the domestic and international markets and meeting the needs of large customers and partners," said Xiotech President and CEO Alan Atkinson. "We look forward to leveraging GlassHouse’s unrivaled global reach, consulting expertise and umbrella of comprehensive services to quickly serve the demand we’ve seen from enterprise organizations and our partners worldwide."

"ISE represents a unique approach to a vexing proposition for IT – meeting the storage demands of the business, while achieving maximum value on equipment investments," said Brian Ritchie, Senior Vice President at GlassHouse. "We look forward to partnering with Xiotech to more quickly and efficiently implement a best-practices approach to data storage."