HYDERABAD, India – December 15, 2010 – Xiotech Corporation, the ISE Company, today announced the expansion of its India business operations and channel partner program, and an increased investment in its state-of-the-art facility in Hyderabad, India. The partner development and engineering center will help the company maximize opportunities in the rapidly growing South Asian enterprise market and drive increased adoption worldwide of its ISE storage blades. The center also will play a key role in continued development of ISE innovations, particularly in enabling virtualization and cloud services for emerging markets.
Establishing a strong channel and systems integration network in South Asia – and specifically India – is an important milestone in Xiotech’s growth plans. The region holds a wealth of highly skilled talent, and Xiotech’s team has already contributed significantly in the development of recent key ISE capabilities. Additionally, with power a paramount concern, rapidly growing enterprises in the region are in need of highly efficient storage innovations to help them manage explosive data growth, while supporting more cost-effective and flexible delivery models. Xiotech is addressing those demands by delivering cost- and power-efficient, high-performance, scalable and reliable storage blades to help organizations take full advantage of emerging market trends like virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI).
“Xiotech’s Hyderabad Center has already established itself as an international epicenter for development behind some of the company’s latest breakthroughs,” said Alan Atkinson, president and CEO of Xiotech. “Expanding our presence with added sales partners, marketing and services will help us better serve existing and future customers; reinforce our commitment to India and the South Asian region; and support our aggressive global growth. Under the leadership of India Country Manager Narasimha Rao, I’m confident that we will execute on all facets of that strategy and build a world-class sales and channel organization.”
“Xiotech recognizes that storage virtualization and VDI are widely accepted as key technology differentiators for the verticals of Indian IT Services, Telecom and Financial Services,” said Narasimha Rao. “As experts in these emerging areas, we are actively engaging various enterprises and empowering selective channel partners to help us address the growing storage demands of the Indian IT market. We are looking forward to building partnerships with some of the leading systems integrators who have competence in architecting and providing virtualization solutions.”
Xiotech: Storage Technology Innovator
“We are extremely proud of the substantial contributions to the Xiotech intellectual property portfolio that have been made in Hyderabad – including work on the recently announced ISE Manager: vSphere Edition and ISE Manager Virtual View,” said Srini Unnava, Managing Director, Xiotech India Development Center. “We look forward to growing our presence in India to help companies from SMBs to enterprises utilize their storage resources and fully leverage virtualization and VDI for competitive and business advantage.”
Representing a new way to acquire and scale storage, ISE is a revolutionary, high-performance 3U storage blade that can be deployed anywhere in the physical or virtual datacenter. Due to Xiotech’s patented storage innovations, ISE sets new industry standards for data storage performance, reliability, linear scalability and value.
Optimized for public and private cloud deployments and VDI, ISE is ideally suited for Citrix Xen, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Based on an innovative design, ISE delivers tremendous efficiencies in power consumption (600 Watts) and physical space (5.25”); rack I/O density (4,201.21* IOPS per rack unit); and capacity utilization (100% usable capacity). Featuring a “zero-touch” design, ISE is backed by an unprecedented 5-year hardware warranty.
About Xiotech, The ISE Company
Xiotech, the ISE Company, is the world’s leading provider of high-performance storage blades, purpose built for today’s cloud and virtual desktop-to-data center initiatives. With more than 1,200 customers across all major industries, including 27 of the Fortune 100, ISE delivers storage that scales from the mid-market to the largest enterprise and government organization. The company’s patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) storage blades provide the industry’s best combination of performance, capacity, and scale, filling the ever-widening gap between performance-limited traditional storage arrays and capacity-limited emerging memory solutions. The company is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota with engineering and development centers in Colorado Springs, Colorado and in Hyderabad, India. Field sales and system support teams are located in many other cities across the United States and United Kingdom. Visit Xiotech at www.xiotech.com, or follow us on Twitter @xiotech.
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Narasimha Rao
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