Availability of X-IO ISE 740 Hybrid and 240 Arrays

X-IO Technologies (Xiotech Corporation) has extended its series of storage solutions with the availability of the Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) 740 hybrid storage system and the ISE 240 performance storage system.

The addition of the ISE 740 hybrid storage system to its 700 Series means that X-IO now offers its customers a family of tier 0 and tier 1 high performance storage arrays providing up to 28.8TB of usable capacity and up to 300,000 IO/s. To deliver this performance the ISE 740’s 3U package uses a combination of enterprise-grade flash drives and, mission critical, high-performance HDDs.

The ISE 700 series, including the new ISE 740, are all managed by X-IO’s patented, intelligent Continuous Adaptive Data Placement (CADP) engine. The series is designed for workload intensive applications that require cost effective performance. By using enterprise SSDs and HDDs as a single pool of storage, it creates the balance of price, performance and capacity versus the traditional storage systems that can be up to ten times more expensive.

The ISE 240 performance system, meanwhile, extends X-IO’s 200 Series of tier 1 and 2 all-HDD storage array to 38.4TB of usable capacity and up to 13,500 IO/s, using enterprise-grade, high performance HDDs. The 200 Series is suited for server and desktop virtualisation, cloud computing, and other applications with multi-tenant workloads, providing a way to rapidly deliver critical information across an enterprise.

Each ISE storage system is a self-contained storage building block designed to accelerate server and desktop virtualisation solutions, as well as transactional, reporting and business intelligence applications by a factor of three or more. ISE storage systems are designed to scale so that full storage performance is maintained no matter how many ISE systems are added to increase capacity.

Refreshingly honest storage
Nick Ellermann, CTO of BroadAspect Hosting LLC, has recently deployed the ISE 700 and ISE 200 Series systems said: “When we were going through the tendering process we found X-IO was refreshingly honest about its solutions and what it could do for us.”

Highlighting how easy it was to deploy these arrays, Ellermann added: “We were looking for a solution that would provide us with usable features for our VMware ecosystem, ultimately contributing positively to how we do business. X-IO’s unique ‘Zero Touch’ approach is just one of these features saving us time and money. Not to mention the five-year warranty, which has reduced our storage costs. This means that we can continue to grow and service our growing customer base, safe in the knowledge that we are fully supported by a high performance storage solution.“

Five-year warranty
The ISE series also offer a no-cost, five-year hardware warranty. X-IO launched its ‘Happy Fifth Anniversary’ customer program recently to celebrate and promote valued customers that have successfully utilized its ISE solutions for five years or more without a single visit from a service engineer or ever having to replace a disk drive.

Based in Colorado, the organisation has offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa and has an installation of over 6,000 units across in excess of 1,200 customers worldwide.