Eden Prairie, Minn. – May 18, 2009 – Xiotech Corporation announced today that Network Products Guide, a leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has selected Xiotech’s Emprise™ 7000 storage system featuring patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology as the winner of a 2009 Product Innovation Award in the Storage: Hardware category.

Network Products Guide’s annual Product Innovation Awards recognize and honor vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

“Innovation is clearly an important factor to greater success and has the most impact on staying competitive,” said Network Products Guide Editor-in-Chief Rake Narang. “Xiotech’s Emprise 7000 storage solution has brought several significant improvements: self-healing capabilities, efficient performance and scalability and superior reliability.”

"This award from Network Products Guide is further validation that our Emprise storage systems, which are built on ISE technology, have brought significant value to the marketplace since their launch last year," said Xiotech Vice President of Marketing Mike Hoch. "With a self-healing, high-performance architecture and the ability to deliver considerable cost savings through a five-year hardware warranty and 100 percent usable capacity, ISE has emerged as a proven and advantageous alternative to traditional storage solutions."

ISE technology, the basis for Xiotech’s Emprise 7000 storage systems, significantly minimizes disk-related service events through a combination of preventive and self-healing capabilities. It offers 100 percent usable storage capacity with no vendor holdbacks or drops in performance, and achieves the industry’s most efficient performance and scalability. In addition, it enables users to cut their ongoing storage costs in half through its five-year warranty and lower overall management costs.

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About Xiotech

Xiotech Corporation, an innovator in data storage solutions, delivers the highest storage value available today based on its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE^™) technology. With ISE, Xiotech^® 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, email info@xiotech.com or call toll free 1.866.472.6764.