State of the Art SSD Technology

Robert L Stevenson the Chief Architect at Xio. Previously Robert Stevenson worked at a Gideon Gartner’s Voice of the Customer Storage Research Company called TheInfoPro(TIP) that did interviews with the largest IT storage organizations among the Fortune 1000 every 6 months and provided exclusive guidance to large buy-side institutional investors in New York and strategic advice to publicly traded storage industry executive teams. Prior to TIP, Robert Stevenson was a Technology Strategist in the CTO office at Nielsen Media Research, a Senior Manager at Ernst and Young Management Consulting, a Senior Manager of Supercomputing and SAN consulting at Sun Microsystems and a Researcher at Motorola. Robert Stevenson has a Bachelors’ in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Computer Science from Illinois Tech.

About XIO
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