Infinio, a market leader in storage acceleration for virtualized data centers, announced today that it has been named one of the IT industry's leading tech innovators by CRN. The 2015 CRN Tech Innovator Awards recognize standout companies that have brought to market hardware, software or services that have substantially impacted the industry. In compiling the Tech Innovator list, a panel of CRN editors evaluated 200 products across 19 categories based on a number of factors, including technical advances, unique features and ability to empower solution providers to solve end-users' IT challenges. Infinio Accelerator took top honors in the storage category.    

IT professionals are constantly seeking solutions for their organizations' storage performance problems without having to continually purchase new and expensive storage hardware. Infinio offers a non-disruptive, highly flexible and cost-effective solution that eliminates wasteful storage spending and preserves existing storage investment. It enables SSD-class performance and reduced latency with no additional hardware by leveraging existing resources within hosts. Infinio lets customers accelerate their storage systems separately from capacity without the need for additional hardware and without impacting production environments.

"This recognition by CRN validates how valuable Infinio Accelerator is to today's virtualized data center, allowing IT professionals and organizations to achieve high performance without adding more hardware or disrupting their existing storage," said Infinio vice president of global channel, Bob Skelley. "The unique nature of Infinio's solution provides performance benefits to end users and a compelling complement to our partners' enterprise solution portfolios."

"In this rapidly evolving tech marketplace, it's critical that vendors are bringing products to the channel that help solution providers quickly deliver value to their customers," said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. "The products chosen for this year's Tech Innovator Awards are solving difficult IT problems, reducing complexity or otherwise contributing to the growth of enterprises worldwide."

The annual Tech Innovator Awards are showcased in the December issue of CRN magazine, and the complete list of winners and honorable mentions is available at crn.com/techinnovators.