Xiotech will serve the vertical markets

What are the main challenges that the storage market faces today?

Explosive data growth has outstripped current generation storage infrastructure, requiring costly over-provisioning to overcome a significant impediment to storage performance. Other vendors have compounded matters by adding software to storage controllers, which are quickly becoming bottlenecks to application processing.

What is Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology? How can it help enterprises to optimize their storage infrastructure?

Representing a new way to acquire and scale storage, ISE is a high performance 3U (or 5.25 inches of vertical rack space) storage blade that can be deployed anywhere in the physical or virtual data center. Based on Xiotechs patented storage innovations, ISE sets new standards for data storage. ISE is designed to meet the performance, linear scalability, and reliability demands of enterprise exchange 2010 deployments, regardless of size.

What are your plans for the Indian market? Who are your potential customers?

Sales in India will be driven by channel partners, systems integrators and solution providers, who are focused on virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure.

Specifically, Xiotech will serve the vertical markets of IT services, telecom, and cloud providers and BFSI. Within those verticals we are primarily targeting medium to large enterprises focused on cutting their opex cost by implementing virtualization, and those organizations with more than 500 users that look to employ VDI for better control and management of their desktops.

Xiotech has announced the expansion of its facility in Hyderabad. What is this facility about, and what are you going to produce out of that?

Expanding our Xiotechs Hyderabad Center 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.

Are you planning to enter into any tie-ups to enhance your reach in the market? Are there any acquisitions lined up?

Xiotech will be focused on partnering with both tier-1 and tier-2 systems integrators and solution providers who will help distribute, and raise the visibility, of ISE in India and South Asia. And we will make announcements related to those partnerships when they become productive.

Onkar Sharma
onkars@cybermedia.co.in

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