Isilon Systems

Highly Available Network Attached Storage

Isilon® Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content, enabling enterprises to transform data into information- and information into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems combine Isilon's OneFS operating system software with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class storage systems. Isilon's clustered storage solutions speed access to critical business information while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of storing it.

Solutions to the following issues:
Dealing with the explosive growth of digital media
Need NAS but want SAN like performance / throughput
Managing multiple data volumes, raid configuration, file systems
Overloaded administrative / storage management staff
Company wants to scale up but cant take system off-line

Key Benefits:
The most scalable NAS, adding 6TB takes 60 seconds
Clustering gives massive performance, up to 10GBytes/sec
Globally coherent file system & cache, one volume, one NAS up to 1PB
Clustering with single point of management, manage 1000TBs as easily as 1TB
Designed for fast sequential access to large unstructured data files

The Isilon IQ family of clustered storage systems was designed from the ground up to meet the needs of data-intensive enterprises and high-performance computing environments. By combining Isilon's OneFS® operating system software with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware, Isilon delivers modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class clustered storage systems. OneFS, with TrueScale technology, powers the industry's first and only storage system that enables linear or independent scaling of performance and capacity. This new flexible and tunable system, featuring a robust suite of clustered storage software applications, provides customers with an "out of the box" solution that is fully optimized for the widest range of applications and workflow needs.

Isilon OneFS with TrueScale technology enables independent or linear scalability of performance and capacity

The Isilon product line is comprised of the Isilon IQ 200, 1920, 3000 and 6000 platform nodes, the Isilon EX 6000 and Isilon IQ Accelerator extension nodes and licensable software applications such as SyncIQ®, SnapshotIQ and SmartConnect. This set of flexible and innovative products set new industry standards by delivering a single file system that scales to one Petebyte of capacity, up to 10 Gigabytes/second of throughput and supports high-performance InfiniBand® for low-latency, high-bandwidth intracluster communication.
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The Isilon IQ clustered storage product line addresses enterprises' full spectrum of storage needs - from the highest performance Tier-1 applications to Tier-2 enterprise archive, disk-to-disk backup and disaster recovery. Powered by OneFS, the Isilon IQ family of products creates a single pool of expandable storage that is easy to install and grow - once racked, a 10, 50 or 100+ terabyte cluster takes less than 10 minutes to configure and set up, and capacity can be added on the fly in less than 60 seconds with no downtime.