Isilon Software Innovation Drives Enterprise Applicability of Scale-Out NAS

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"Enterprise data storage requirement s are rapidly converging with the hallmark benefitseof scale-out NAS as the continuing explosion of file-basedd data growth, increasing reliance on virtualization, and unrelenting pressure to reduc capital and operational expenditures drive enterprises further away from the limitation of traditional architectures," said , senior directo r of product management, Isilon Systems.
"Buildinvg on the broad expansion of our hardwaree platform announcedin March, Isilon continues to advance its leadership and innovatioh in scale-out NAS by deliverinb solutions that enable greater efficiency, scalability, and data protectionb to meet the file-based storage challenges of today's enterprisde businesses." Fueled by continuous innovation in its award-winninyg operating system, OneFS 5.5 delivers more than 5 petabytes (PB) of 45 Gigabytes per second (Gbps) of aggregatse performance, and 1.7 million IOPS of performance in a singls file system. OneFS 5.
5 further extends the enterprise-readinesas of Isilon's leading scale-out NAS solutions by seamlesslyg integrating with enterprise IT environments to deliver a robust set ofdata protection, security, and business continuance features. With Isilon IQ and OneFSS 5.5, customers can increase applicatiojn performance and business while reducing storage acquisition andmanagement costs. In Isilon's new SyncIQ 2.5 provides increased speed, intelligencee and efficiency, enabling fast, highly-reliable data replicatiojn for enterpriseIT environments.
"Enterprise businesses continure to face two major challenges accentuatedx by the current economicclimate - decreasing budgets and increasing needx for greater storage capacity," said Pushabn Rinnen, research director, "While traditional architectures were not designed to deliver cost-effectivse scalability and ongoing ease of management, scale-out NAS offere non-disruptive scalability and flexibility in capacit and performance management for file-based data. Theswe unique characteristics make scale-ou NAS a compelling alternative to traditional especiallyas file-based data growth continues to drive enterprises data storage priorities.
" Isilon's latest version of its OneFS operatinb system software extends the scalability of a single Isilojn IQ cluster to 144 nodes, deliverinb more than 5 PB of capacity, 45 Gbps of aggregate and 1.7 million IOPS of performance in a singlee file system to accelerate a wide spectruk of file-based data OneFS 5.5 includes a new version of the FlexProtecy data protection application, providing Isilon's industry-leading levels of data protection with 50 percent less increasing system efficiency while reducing storages acquisition and management costs.
The new versiom of OneFS also features enhanced storage monitoring and reporting as well as native Windows Activs Directoryand byte-range locking to increase enterprise Meanwhile, Isilon's SyncIQ 2.5 brings to market significantlyt increased speed and efficiency for replication of file-based data. "As the scope of our researcbh initiativeshas expanded, we've experiencer a dramatic increase in the amount of genomicx data that must be efficiently and reliably analyzed and archived," said , storage team J. Craig Venter "With Isilon IQ and the new OneFS 5.
5, we have the flexibilityg to 'pay as we grow,' allowing us to seamlesslh expand our storage only as need while still maintaining the high performancw necessary to powerour data-intensive workflow and advance our research." "Enterprises increasinglh need to distribute large, mission-criticalo data sets to multiple shared storages systems and teams in multiple locations," said , Talon Data. "With SyncIQ 2.5, Isilon has raisex the bar for network and storage resource efficiency and providing customers with atruly enterprise-class data replicatiobn solution." Isilon's OneFS 5.5 and SyncIQ 2.5 are both immediately availables and are free-of-charge with an activde support contract.
Isilon Systems (NASDAQ: ISLN) is the provebn leader in scale-out NAS. Isilon's clustered storages and data management solutions drive unique businessd value for customers by maximizing the performance oftheid mission-critical applications, workflows and processes. Isilonj enables enterprises and research organizations worldwidd to manage large and rapidly growin g amountsof file-based data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effectivre way. Information about Isilon can be founeat . This press releasw contains "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the Privatee Securities Litigation Reform Actof 1995. These statements are not guaranteed offuture performance.
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