Best Hardware: Storage
Editors' Best
GOLD
Hyper ISE • XIO Storage • www.xiostorage.com
SILVER
B1200i • Drobo • www.drobo.com
BRONZE
StorSimple 7010 • StorSimple • www.storsimple.com
Why It Won: At a turning point in the trajectory of the storage industry, XIO-with its awesome Hyper ISE-is pioneering a unique path that focuses on performance rather than capacity. "Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) hardware-testing projects are designed to put maximum stress on systems so that customers can have the utmost confidence in deploying them in support of business-critical functions," says David Hayes, director of the MPSC. "In such a demanding context, XIO Hyper ISE performed beyond our wildest expectations with the HDD/ SSD solution that we tested. Where most storage systems have underperformed before, we felt like we hardly put a dent in the Hyper ISE performance potential. We estimate it would take an increase of workload by a factor of 10 to push the Hyper ISE we tested to its actual performance threshold. We're looking forward to deploying it in the MPSC environment."
Community Choice
GOLD
NetApp FAS6200 Series • NetApp • www.netapp.com
SILVER
EMC VNX • EMC • www.emc.com
BRONZE
Dell EqualLogic • Dell • www.dell.com
Other hot products in this year's survey . . .
Dell's PowerVault
EMC's Symmetrix VMAX
HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)