Isilon Launches X-Series Clustered Storage Systems

Isilon Systems released its new IQ
clustered storage systems, the X-Series, delivering unprecedented
levels of performance, scalability and value required to power the
next-generation, virtualized data center.

Isilon’s X-Series clustered
storage systems deliver the industry’s first and only storage system to
scale to greater than 1.6 Petabytes of capacity and provide performance
of 10 Gigabytes per second in a single file system and single volume –
achieving 100X the scalability and 20X the performance of traditional
SAN and NAS storage systems. Isilon today announced that more than 60
customers, including Arcis Corporation, Austin Radiological
Association, Kodak Gallery, and PetroChina have already adopted
Isilon’s X-Series to gain instant access to critical business
information while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of
managing storage growth.

Isilon also today announced it is working with Cisco, ColdWatt,
Intel, Mellanox Technologies, Riverbed and VMware to ensure
interoperability with its X-Series clustered storage systems.
Interoperability between these leading solutions will help enable
enterprise businesses to deploy end-to-end, next- generation,
virtualized data centers.

"The enterprise data center is in the midst of a major
transformation, fueled by the wide-spread deployment of high-speed
networking and high- performance virtualized computing," said Sujal
Patel, CEO, Isilon Systems. "The Isilon X-Series serves as an essential
component of the next-generation data center, enabling enterprises to
unlock the storage bottleneck and speed the entire data center value
chain to achieve unprecedented levels of innovation and business
agility."

"In the ever-intensifying and expanding search to discover new,
extractable sources of oil and gas, Arcis’ business relies heavily on
next- generation computing, networking and storage technologies to
produce extremely fast and accurate seismic information and analysis,"
said Rob Howey, Senior Vice President, Arcis Corporation. "We are using
Isilon’s X-series clustered storage systems to meet the extreme
concurrent data performance requirements of our 850-node clustered
computing system and have achieved a tremendous increase in the
delivery of seismic data and services to our customers."

"Our research is showing an increased user interest in clustered
storage in scale-out architectures as enterprises look to address
storage infrastructure complexity, cost and performance issues," said
Pushan Rinnen, Research Director, Gartner. "As unstructured data
continues to grow faster than structured data, clustered storage
solutions should be in the shortlist for consideration to ensure
maximum return on investment."

As part of the new X-Series, Isilon selected the Intel Xeon
5130 Processor series to provide the energy efficiency and high
performance necessary to help achieve 20X the data performance of
traditional SAN and NAS storage systems.

"Clustered storage has quickly emerged as a key architecture to
meet the requirements of the next-generation data center," said Seth
Bobroff, General Manager Storage, Intel Server Platform Group.
"Utilizing Intel’s Xeon 5130 Processor in its X-Series clustered
storage systems enabled Isilon to dramatically increase the performance
and power efficiency of its systems, providing customers with a
powerful solution to support an end-to-end, virtualized data center."

Isilon’s X-Series clustered storage systems serve as a critical
component of the next-generation data center, providing enterprise
businesses with unprecedented storage scalability and performance while
dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of managing storage
growth. Isilon’s X-Series provides the following key benefits:

• Unprecedented Scalability – Leveraging Isilon’s OneFS(R) operating system software, Isilon’s X-Series clustered storage systems deliver modular, "pay as you grow" scaling of capacity up to 1.6 Petabytes in a single file system and single volume – achieving 100X the scalability of traditional SAN and NAS storage systems – and create a single, shared pool of virtualized storage to meet the requirements for the next-generation, virtualized data center.
• High Performance – Isilon’s X-Series delivers up to 10 Gigabytes per second of performance in a single file system and single volume, achieving 20X the performance of traditional SAN and NAS storage systems. With the release of the X-Series, Isilon has increased performance for data write and random access by up to 60 percent over its previous systems. Leveraging Isilon’s OneFS operating system software combined with new, high-performance hardware which utilizes the latest generation of Intel architecture, Isilon’s X-Series provides enterprises with instant and unfettered access to large and rapidly growing stores of unstructured and file-based data currently proliferating through the next-generation data center.
• Unmatched Value – Leveraging the power consumption efficiencies gained with the next-generation hardware advancements from Intel and ColdWatt, Isilon’s X-Series achieves 20 percent greater power efficiency over the previous architecture, delivering critical environmental and total cost of ownership savings to enterprise businesses. As with previous Isilon IQ clustered storage products, Isilon’s X-Series delivers a single point of management for a shared pool of storage, providing unprecedented simplicity in configuring, managing and provisioning storage resources in the next-generation, virtualized data center.

Powered by OneFS, Isilon IQ X Series delivers the industry’s first
single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous
access to the rapidly growing stores of digital content, eliminating
the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures.
OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that powers all of
Isilon’s award-winning IQ family of clustered storage systems including
the Isilon IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, 9000, 12000, Accelerator, and EX
6000, 9000 and 12000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software
applications including SnapshotIQ , SmartConnect(TM),
MigrationIQ , SmartQuotas, and SyncIQ  that leverage OneFS and
clustered storage, providing the highest levels of data protection and
automated data management.

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