X-IO wins two awards at the annual UK Datacentre Solutions Awards 2013

The annual UK Datacentre Solutions Awards recognise the achievements of end-users, channel partners and vendors alike who operate in the data centre field. It awards products, projects and services, which have influenced and impressed the industry over the last 12 months. This year’s awards took place on 23 May at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London.

Roger Walton, Vice President EMEA at X-IO collected the award and said: “X-IO’s Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) family of high-performance enterprise scale-out arrays eliminates the tradeoffs between storage capacity and performance and provides businesses with unmatched price/performance ratios and reliability for the most demanding data intensive applications and highly virtualised, cloud-scale solutions. These unique values have boosted our channel with a number of key signings over the last 12 months, with considerable demand for all of our ISE solutions across the UK and Europe. These awards, voted for by our thousands of customers and partners, demonstrates all our hard work and it’s great to be recognised in the industry.”

X-IO is the only proven storage vendor providing a single architecture for both hard disk based and hybrid storage arrays, built from the ground up to deliver performance, cost and reliability advantages that enable private and public cloud providers achieve a more effective commercial model in a highly competitive market and traditional infrastructure data centres to achieve a much more efficient TCO.

X-IO customers regularly report their appreciation for the ISE storage system’s ease of use, the ability to maintain high performance levels, even when the system reaches 100% capacity, and the fact that “it just works”, year after year after year. X-IO customers are also delighted that they have been able to reduce power, floorspace and administrative overhead from their legacy SAN systems. These two awards together demonstrate the market demand for a proven and consistent approach to these challenges.

X-IO’s Hyper ISE is an enterprise grade Hybrid storage system that fuses enterprise grade SSD and mission critical HDD as a single pool of storage, creating the ideal balance of price, performance, and capacity. Hyper ISE uses patented Continuous Adaptive Data Placement (CADP) software to analyse the behaviour of application I/O and place hotspot data onto SSD in real time. By creating the perfect partnership between the highest quality SSD and HDD, it outperforms all-flash systems and costs 75% less.

Furthermore, due to the truly unique “zero-touch” design of the Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) hardware and software, all X-IO solutions have an unrivaled seven year duty cycle backed by an inclusive five year, no-cost, warranty. Through the use of patented self-healing technology, costly and performance detrimental disk replacement and rebuild is not needed in the event of a physical defect, instead true uninterrupted service can be provided at extremely high performance levels over its lifecycle.