X-IO Reveals ISE Station XL

X-IO Technologies announced ISE Station XL, the new member of its ISE Station X family of storage solutions.

Available, the second generation ISE Station XL is a pre-configured storage solution that offers 1PB of capacity and delivers over 1 million IOPS in a dense, energy-efficient package.
 
Designed for datacenter operators and cloud-based service providers who need both performance and capacity, ISE Station XL provides built-in support for major virtualization engines from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft, removing SAN controller bottlenecks and complexity from large-scale virtualization architectures.

It consumes 34.56 square feet (3.21 square meters) of floor space and 28 kilowatts of energy, while producing a heat load of only 95,536 BTUs and offering the lowest power and cooling requirements in the industry.
 
Compatible with leading OSs and hypervisors, the design of the ISE Station XL makes it expandable, beyond 1PB. Housed in just 44U racks, it addresses the needs of enterprise customers with ease of management, low support costs and X-IO’s five-year hardware warranty.
 
CTO Steve Sicola called the release of the ISE Station XL the next logical step in the evolution of X-IO large-scale storage offerings.

Sicola stated: "Since storage is the single most significant component of the cost of deployment in large-scale datacenter environments and cloud services, we are tuning the ISE Station product line to focus on reducing that cost-of-deployment significantly-at minimum, by a third-while guaranteeing capacity and performance-at-scale."