X-IO fights global hybrid warming, keeps ISE age going

X-IO has overhauled its hybrid ISE array line with third generation technology and given it a top-end ISE 780 model with boosted performance. ISE (Integrated Storage Elements) are sealed 3U rack enclosures containing SSDs and Seagate disk drives with clever Seagate diagnostic software enabling drive failures that would cause …

[Anonymous Coward]

Headline writer working too hard.

Give him a couple of days off.

[Bruce Hockin]

Interesting canned quote

“help customers resolve the three key challenges of storage: 100 per cent performance at 100 per cent capacity utilisation, reliability without operational overhead, and the industry’s leading balance of cost, capacity, performance and risk.”

I mean, I don't know any customer who'll even let their storage get to 100% utilisation, so no need to worry about performance at that stage. I can also assure you every other hybrid vendor will tout 'industry’s leading balance of cost, capacity, performance and risk'. That is certainly something NexGen could lay claim to too.

NexGen can deliver a minimum of 150k IPOs on any system, a fully redundant active-active architecture with QoS to guarantee application performance and can scale to 1/4 of a Petabyte for less than $1/Gb (and that's without any dedupe or compression at all!)

I'm sure X-IO is a good solution though. Heard some nice things about them.

Disclaimer: NexGen partner.

[Gavin Mc]

Re: Interesting canned quote

That would have been a reasonable attempt at a blatant thread hijack if you hadn't have typed IPOs instead of IOPs !

Many X--IO customers run to 95% plus capacity, especially service providers where the lost capacity is lost margin. O

Disclaimer: The X-IO guy who wrote the original quote