All posts tagged X-IO

New X-IO ISE 800 All-Flash Array

Good post by Chris Mellor (thank you) over at El Reg

X-IO’s five-year warranty, maintenance-free sealed disk and disk+flash arrays have a new brother: the all-flash ISE. It’s sprinted right to the top of the SPC-1 price/performance benchmark charts.

The ISE 800 comes in a standard 3U X-IO enclosure and uses X-IO’s Gen 3 architecture, which first appeared in the ISE 780 in January. There are three models:

  • 820 – to 6.4TB pre-RAID capacity (2.7TB RAID 10, 4.3TB RAID 5)
  • 850 – to 25.6TB pre-RAID capacity (11.4TB RAID 10, 18.3TB RAID 5)
  • 860 – to 51.2TB pre-RAID capacity (22.9TB RAID 10, 36.6TB RAID 5)

All provide a max of 400,000 IOPS, or 260,000 IOPS with what is called an OLTP workload. There is up to 5GB/sec of bandwidth available.

Read on here

Leave a comment
by rogerluethy on March 11, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Datacenter, Flash, Information, Infrastructure, SAN, Virtualization
Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted by rogerluethy on March 11, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/new-x-io-ise-800-all-flash-array/

X-IO: Zero Maintenance, Low Latency, VDI Storage

Post by Marco Broeken (thank you)

At VMworld Barcelona, I was invited by Stephen Foskett to join the #TFDx event (short for Tech Field Day Extra). I’m writing about X-IO because their presentation actually triggered me. They handle a lot of things very differently. And as you can read below, I like how they do that.

Read on here

Leave a comment
by rogerluethy on October 23, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in Hyperconverged, Information, Virtualization, VMware
Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted by rogerluethy on October 23, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/x-io-zero-maintenance-low-latency-vdi-storage/

Short stroking disk drives to improve performance

Good Post by Erwin van Londen (thank you)

Reading a post from Hans DeLeenheer (VEEAM) which ramped up quite a bit including responses from Calvin Zito (HP), Alex McDonald (NetApp) and Nigel Poulton. The discussion started on a comment that XIO had “special” firmware which improved IO performance. Immediately the term “short-stroking” came up which leads to believe X-IO is cheap-skating on their technologies. I was under the same impression at first right until the moment I saw that Richard Lary is (more or less) the head of tech at X-IO together with Clark Lubbers and Bill Pagano who also come out of that same stable.

Read on here

Leave a comment
by rogerluethy on October 16, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in Flash, Information, Storage Basics
Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted by rogerluethy on October 16, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/short-stroking-disk-drives-to-improve-performance/

X-IO makes hardware-defined storage exciting

Post by Lauren Malhoit (thank you)

X-IO deals with disks within its systems in two impressive ways. Lauren Malhoit says these approaches make X-IO stand out from other storage vendors.

I attended Storage Field Day 5 (SFD) a couple of weeks ago; SFD is a part of the Tech Field Day. Before the actual SFD event, we attended a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Symposium. SDDC is a new, sexy buzzword in tech.

Read on here

Leave a comment
by rogerluethy on June 30, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in Flash, Information
Tagged , , , , , , ,

Posted by rogerluethy on June 30, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/x-io-makes-hardware-defined-storage-exciting/

Software-Define alternative to Hyper-Convergence

Good Post by Keith Townsend (thank you)

Convergence is aiming to change the data center with the promise of simplifying overall IT operations. We’ve seen tightly engineered solutions from VMware, Cisco and EMC in the form of vBlocks from VCE. More recently we’ve seen hyper-converged systems from the likes of Scale Computing and Nutanix. The appeal of these systems from a CIO perspective is the reduction of operating expenses related to the virtualization and storage administrator roles.

Read on here

Leave a comment
by rogerluethy on May 15, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in EMC, Information, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization, VMware
Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted by rogerluethy on May 15, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/software-define-alternative-to-hyper-convergence/

X-IO: Software-Defined what?

Good Post by Enrico Signoretti (thank you)

X-IO, born in 2007 and based in Colorado Springs (CO), is the result of the fusion of XioTech and the Advanced Storage Architecture division of Seagate (yes, the Hard Disk vendor). It’s not a proper startup actually (XioTech was born in 1995) but it does have most of the characteristics, of which the most important seems to be innovation.

Read on here

Leave a comment
by rogerluethy on May 5, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in Flash, Information, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
Tagged , , , , , , ,

Posted by rogerluethy on May 5, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/x-io-software-defined-what/

All The Gear

Very good post by Martin Glassborow (thank you)

IBM are a great technology company; they truly are great at technology and so many of the technologies we take for granted can be traced to back to them. And many of today’s implementations still are poorer than the original implementations.

Read on here

Leave a comment
by rogerluethy on April 11, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in IBM, Information
Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Posted by rogerluethy on April 11, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/all-the-gear/

Storage Field Day 5: Vendor Profiles (Part 2)

Good post by by Chris M Evans (thank you)

This post continues the discussion on what to expect from vendors presenting at the next Storage Field Day in Silicon Valley between 23-25 April 2014.

SanDisk

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear SanDisk’s name is their range of consumer devices. Of course the company is about a lot more than that and has previously presented at a Tech Field Day event (also SDF3) about their FlashSoft caching software.

Read on here

Leave a comment
by rogerluethy on March 27, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in Information
Tagged , , , , ,

Posted by rogerluethy on March 27, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/storage-field-day-5-vendor-profiles-part-2/

  • Follow me on Twitter

  • Join 1,319 other subscribers

  • Top Posts

  • Blog Stats

    • 1,009,086 hits since July 2010

  • Storage CH Archive