Xiotech Introduces New Entry-Level Storage Solution - Emprise 7000 Edge - at Interop

Xiotech Introduces New Entry-Level Storage Solution - Emprise 7000 Edge - at
Interop

Storage System Delivers All the Benefits of ISE Technology and Web Services
Management to Businesses Trying to Do More With Less

LAS VEGAS, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Xiotech Corporation introduced its latest
storage solution for organizations who want affordability with flexible,
scalable architectures - the new Emprise(TM) 7000 Edge system - today at
Interop in Las Vegas. This storage system is built upon Xiotech's patented
Intelligent Storage Element (ISE(TM)) technology, which delivers a new
universal storage foundation with a combination of self-healing
characteristics, the industry's most efficient performance and scalability and
unparalleled reliability backed by a five-year hardware warranty.

The Emprise 7000 Edge storage area network (SAN) solution supports up to 10
ISE (160 terabytes). It can be easily upgraded as needs evolve to Xiotech's
Emprise 7000 system, which supports up to 64 ISE (1,024 terabytes), providing
true investment protection. In addition, Emprise 7000 Edge includes Web
Services-based management via ICON Manager and simplified provisioning and
management of storage in virtualized server environments via Virtual View.

According to a Xiotech survey of more than 400 storage administrators
conducted this month, 77 percent of respondents said their storage budgets are
staying the same or decreasing in the next 18 months. At the same time,
organizational demand for storage is projected to dramatically increase again
this year, meaning that administrators will need to find solutions to satisfy
their unique organizational challenges without increased funding.

"We also saw from our survey that organizations greatly value a flexible,
adaptable storage system architecture - it's one of the top three
characteristics respondents said they look for when buying a new storage
system," said Xiotech(R) Vice President of Marketing Mike Hoch. "Because ISE
technology moves cache, management and drive functions close to the storage
itself, it allows for component-designed storage solutions which scale as
users' business needs change and protect those users' initial investment in
storage. These are the ultimate in flexible storage architectures, and when
you add in the superior reliability the systems offer, they become a
tremendous value-add to the small or medium-sized business."

"Any company that is serious about chasing cost out of IT infrastructure has
to begin with the fastest growing and most expensive component - storage,"
said Toigo Partners International Founder and Senior Analyst Jon Toigo. "The
Emprise array family, built on ISE technology and W3C Web Services management
standards, delivers what other vendors in the industry have only been talking
about: an affordable building-block model for storage that can be customized
to each application you own but managed in an intelligent and unified way. I
am thrilled by Xiotech's continued innovation in this space."

ISE technology offers 100 percent usable storage capacity with no vendor
holdbacks or drops in performance as capacity utilization increases, and
significantly minimizes disk-related service events through a combination of
preventive and self-healing capabilities. In addition, ISE technology achieves
the industry's most efficient performance and scalability, and enables users
to cut their ongoing storage costs in half through its five-year hardware
warranty and lower overall management costs.

Emprise 7000 Edge is on display at Interop Las Vegas, at Xiotech booth #2255.
Show attendees are welcome to stop by for more information and system
demonstrations.

About Xiotech
Xiotech Corporation, an innovator in data storage solutions, delivers the
highest storage value available today based on its Intelligent Storage Element
(ISE(TM)) technology. With ISE, Xiotech(R) products deliver 100 percent usable
storage capacity with no drop in performance as drives are fully utilized, and
provide more performance and flexibility with less hardware because of their
efficiency and scalability. Additionally, Xiotech significantly reduces
storage operation and management costs with the patented, self-healing
technology of ISE, the industry's only five-year hardware warranty and the
ICON Manager storage management tool which integrates and automates storage
operations across the array, server and virtual machine layers. With these
technologies, Xiotech stands alone in its ability to lower an organization's
total cost of ownership for storage.

Xiotech is based in Eden Prairie, Minn., and maintains major facilities in
Colorado Springs, Colo., and Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit
www.xiotech.com, e-mail info@xiotech.com, or call (866) 472-6764.

SOURCE Xiotech Corporation

Jason Sprenger of Xiotech Corporation, +1-952-983-3110,
jason_sprenger@xiotech.com