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.
According to XIO customers:
"Managing nearly $8 billion in loan and lease assets for more than 23,000 clients nationwide, AgStar values customer satisfaction and loyalty; IT plays an important role in achieving these objectives. Viewing IT as a strategic business asset, we constantly strive to deploy new – as well as support existing – CRM, ECM and social media applications. These initiatives frequently demand higher desktop performance, and storage recently became an impediment to these efforts. In searching for the necessary IOPS to fuel these projects, we found Hyper ISE to be the very best storage solution in addressing our high-performance needs, random performance storms, and ever-increasing capacity requirements. It truly is a game-changing storage technology." Mark A. Rude, Director of IT Operations, AgStar Financial Services
“Hyper ISE has introduced a new paradigm – shattering the binary decision of selecting for superior performance or capacity. Finally, a storage solution delivers impressive IOPS and optimized capacity – all while preserving valuable rack space. Hyper ISE’s intelligent combination of SSD and HDD guarantees that the most used data is optimally located on the right media.” Marc Boitel, Managing Director at OPNS
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Telephone: +44 7887 757611
Email: roger.walton@XIOstorage.com
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Press Releases
XIO Storage VMWorld Vegas 2011
XIO’s Hyper ISE Takes Two Top Honors in Microsoft Best of Tech•Ed 2011 Awards
Case Studies
Hyper ISE solved our VDI performance problem
School District Focus on Virtual Desktop and Hyper ISE Customer Case Study
Sycamore Community School District 427 (Sycamore CUSD427) has over 3,800 students and 550 staff members. They currently support 840 virtual desktops with a total of 1,300 to be implemented within the year. They are using XP and Windows 7 using Citrix VDI for their environment.
Sean Larson, Network Administrator for Sycamore CUSD427 implemented VDI on a “traditional” storage system used for a wide variety of applications. Prior to implementing VDI their storage system vendor and Citrix approved the configuration leading Sean to believe that everything would operate without incident. However, the users and Sean observed a significant slow down in both VDI and other applications sporadically throughout the day.
Sean Larson: “The entire infrastructure would just stop working. VDI’s would stop. Servers would stop. We were seeing applications just freeze up. We monitored our environment and we realized that boot storms would occur every 45 minutes because of classes changing. We were maxing out the IOPS on our controller. We then looked at how many more spindles we would need to increase our IOPS. It was just too expensive so we looked at alternatives.”
Sean discovered Hyper ISE at Camp IT in Chicago and learned about its ability to support over 60,000 IOPS in a 3U chassis. He wanted a demo that week and was testing Hyper ISE five days later. Sean immediately migrated his VDIs to Hyper ISE and the problem disappeared.
Sean Larson: “Hyper ISE solved our VDI performance problems immediately and it cost four times less than our other storage vendor’s product. We considered four other vendors including our existing one but the decision came down to IOPS, price/performance and footprint. We have no space in our data center and expanding is not an option.
“From day one Hyper ISE performed flawlessly and actually fixed some other issues we were having with a couple of our Xenapp servers. We did the math and it was a no-brainer. Hyper ISE cost per VDI was actually lower than what we would pay for a physical desktop. I know that would not have happened with another storage vendor. It is ideal for our VDI environment. And we are using it for other applications as well making the TCO even lower. And there is plenty of additional headroom for more virtual desktops and other applications that we intend to implement later this year, which makes Hyper ISE that much more valuable to us. Hyper ISE is a rock-solid storage system that combines SSD and SAS drives that gives the optimum amount of storage and IOPS.”
Whitepapers
Performance-Driven Storage Application Acceleration
! Hyper ISE - a 3U footprint and 14.4 terabytes of capacity reaching up to 200,000 IOPSThe Hyper ISE Advantage
Hyper ISE is a new class of storage system that balances price/performance/capacity and reliability. In order to understand how this is achieved, it is important to first understand how Hyper ISE was designed from the ground up. It is relatively easy to integrate SSD into a storage system: the hard part is using those drives effectively.
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Products
XIO Hyper ISE
200,000 IOPS in a single 3U with 14.4 TB of capacityKey Hyper ISE Features
Hyper ISE is the leading performance-driven storage system with over 200,000 IOPS in a single 3U with 14.4 TB of capacity. That translates into the best price/performance/capacity ratios of any storage system in the industry.
Hyper ISE is the only True SHD storage system that fuses together SSD and HDD into a single pool of capacity. All performance-starved data is placed on SSD and everything else is kept on HDD. This results in:
- Reducing database query times by up to 20X
- Enabling thousands of virtual desktops on a single Hyper ISE storage system
- Virtual-to-physical consolidation ratios increasing by up to 5X
- Reducing power, cooling and floor space since far less infrastructure is required to meet performance needs
Other solutions may be able to provide high performance but at what cost? The issue isn't just performance but it is really all about price/performance. Hyper ISE is the only storage system that provides SSD performance at HDD pricing, outperforming storage systems that are up to 10 times more expensive. Hyper ISE changes the economics of IT creating new opportunities for our customers.
Fast Forever
The Hyper ISE storage system was designed for performance. And here is something that you must take into account -- most vendors provide you performance information based on "best-case-scenario". However, their performance degrades as they reach high levels of capacity utilization; during RAID rebuilds, performing data movement, mirroring or when they have any drive issues. However Hyper ISE has been architected to minimize any performance degradation that is felt by the users or applications during any or all of these conditions occurring. Hyper ISE is fast forever.
