Engenio is the recognized leader in the modular, high-performance disk storage systems industry. A more than 20-year history of researching, developing, and manufacturing innovative storage solutions has positioned us in today's market as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and partner of choice for some of the largest information technology vendors and resellers in the world.
The company designs and manufactures complete storage systems, storage controllers/modules, and storage management software configured to meet OEM partner requirements. Our storage technology supports all major open operating systems, and is certified compatible with storage software and infrastructure components from leading industry vendors. These certifications are a key component in the way we approach our objective of being the OEM of choice to the world's most demanding IT companies.
Engenio has more than 1,000 employees around the world, of which more than a third are in research and development. These highly motivated professionals ensure that we stay ahead of our competition in the development and delivery of innovative, value-priced, high-performance storage solutions. The company headquarters is in Milpitas, California, and manufacturing and research and development facilities are in Kansas, Colorado, Texas and Arizona, as well as locations in Europe.
Engenio focuses its products to server and storage OEM partners and alliance partners worldwide, allowing them to reach a larger market than if sold directly to enterprises. We are committed to our channel customers, offering high-performing, innovative solutions tailored to specific customer design and requirements. We work very closely with our OEM partners, such as IBM, SGI, StorageTek, and Teradata, to deliver complete storage solutions unmatched anywhere. The powerful combination of Engenio storage technology and alliance partner storage infrastructure and application software from companies such as VERITAS, Microsoft, and Legato, ensures customers product interoperability and integrated support for their enterprise solutions.
From its beginning, Engenio has played a significant role in developing storage technology standards. And today, we continue that responsibility of advancing industry standards with our participation in industry associations such as the Fibre Channel Industry Association, the Storage Performance Council, and the Storage Networking Industry Association, including adoption of the Storage Management Initiative Specificiation (SMI-S). Our engineers have earned more than 210 patents, and continue innovating storage technology keeping Engenio at the forefront of the industry.
Engenio has been designing RAID storage controllers since 1990, making it one of the first companies to bring this landmark technology to market. Our current controller and firmware technology, in the 6998, 5884, 2882 and 2822 controllers, spans the entire spectrum of applications from entry-level to the enterprise.
The company also supplies:
- Drive modules designed to optimize performance, availability and serviceability.
- SANtricityŽ Storage Management software, which assures complete control over rapidly growing storage environments.
- Fibre Channel storage systems which offer the performance, features, functionality, and flexibility required by open systems environments.
- Serial ATA (SATA) storage systems that combine the company's controllers and software with SATA drives to create storage intended for the specific workloads, capacities, and cost requirements of secondary storage.
- Engenio solutions that are designed to quickly solve mission-critical issues and keep data available and online. These solutions are developed using real-world IT conditions and then tested with our vendors to ensure their interoperability so you can be confident it's the right solution.
