Isilon Certified With Symantec Enterprise Vault

Isilon Systems announced that Isilon
IQ clustered storage systems have been tested for interoperability with
Enterprise Vault(TM) from Symantec Corporation.

This new certification
enables joint customers to leverage a highly reliable and scalable data
archiving solution by combining Symantec’s enterprise-class data archiving
software with Isilon’s award-winning clustered storage systems, delivering an
automated, ‘pay as you grow’ archive and retrieval solution for enterprise
businesses’ critical data assets. By leveraging Isilon IQ, featuring its
OneFS operating system software and unique clustered architecture, with
Enterprise Vault, customers can significantly improve the reliability and
efficiency of their data archiving operations and maximize the value of their
business information.

As a member of the Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP), Isilon’s
OneFS operating system software for clustered storage systems has been tested
and achieved certification with Enterprise Vault software, enabling customers
to seamlessly archive and protect data while reducing cost and complexity
within storage environments. By deploying Isilon IQ as the archive target for
Symantec Enterprise Vault, customers can consolidate and archive critical data
into one, easily expandable, central repository — accelerating the storage,
management and discovery of corporate information. Additionally, this
solution provides automated integration and data backup between the online
environment and the archived storage library to streamline the retrieval of
data assets.

"Symantec Enterprise Vault software delivers an archiving platform that
stores, manages and enables discovery of corporate data, while reducing costs
and simplifying management," said Simon Jelley, Director of Product Management
for Enterprise Vault, Symantec Corporation. "Isilon’s unique OneFS operating
system for its clustered storage systems aligns with our value proposition,
and when combined with Enterprise Vault software, can help streamline the
archival of critical business information while reducing overall cost and
complexity. This offering provides customers with improved reliability,
scalability and process automation for end-to-end data archive operations in
enterprise environments."

"With growing data volume, increasing threats to data security, and
ongoing application performance issues, many enterprises today are dealing
with tough database management challenges. Information and knowledge
management professionals should devise a database archiving strategy that
moves inactive data to lower-cost storage and servers, thus improving the
manageability, performance, and security of critical production applications."
(Database Archiving Remains an Important Part of Enterprise DBMS Strategy,
Forrester Research, Inc. August 13, 2007)

"The reliability, reputation and wide-scale deployment of Symantec
Enterprise Vault software makes it an ideal match for Isilon’s award-winning
Isilon IQ clustered storage systems," said Ashish Bhargava, Director of
Business Development, Isilon Systems. "In today’s strict enterprise
compliance environment, ensuring business information is reliably and
cost-effectively archived and retrieved is critical to successful enterprise
operations. In order to help streamline archive operations for businesses’
mission-critical data, Isilon IQ clustered storage systems leverage the
validation of OneFS for use with Enterprise Vault software, offering customers
additional data archive and consolidation options."

"Cornerstone Technologies is committed to delivering truly integrated
solutions that improve the efficiency, effectiveness and bottom line of our
customers’ businesses," said Frank Velasquez, Cornerstone Technologies. "Data
growth continues to surge — especially digital content and unstructured
data — while budgets remain flat and compliance standards increase in
stringency, driving our customers to seek out new, more cost-effective ways to
reliably archive their business information. With the integration of Symantec
Enterprise Vault and Isilon clustered storage, we now have the solution they
need to seamlessly archive critical information and maximize its business
value."

Isilon Systems

Symantec Corporation