[2] The XtremIO company was founded in 2009 by a group of Israeli high-tech veterans that included Aryeh Mergi, a co-founder of M-Systems; Chairman of the Board, Shuki Bruck, the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor at Caltech; Yaron Segev; and CEO Ehud Rokach, a former senior executive at Orckit and CEO of Corrigent.

[5][6] Known as the home of the USB flash drive, Israel fostered companies like XtremIO, M-Systems, Anobit and others that were attracting a lot of attention from U.S.-based firms for their talent and technology.

[7] XtremIO arrays entered the market in early 2013 for limited testing, and the product line was officially launched by EMC on November 14 of that year.

[8] XtremIO reached $1 billion in sales in 2015, expanded the capacity of the product and introduced efficient copy data management at the storage layer (iCDM), among other incremental improvements.

Software and hardware improvements allow XtremIO X2 systems to scale more incrementally than earlier XtremIO systems, allowing both scale-up capacity growth by adding storage to a single X-Brick (new to X2), and scale-out capacity growth by adding additional X-Bricks (possible in earlier configurations).

[12] The full-mesh RDMA network running on Infiniband maintains a consistent path length to each data block, which in turn provides the same latency.

XIOS features global inline deduplication and compression, thin provisioning, snapshot architecture, XDP Data Protection and full VAAI Integration.