Global Publisher Wiley & Sons Implementing Isilon X and NL

EMC Corporation announced that John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS systems in eight global locations to manage its Big Data growth.

Recent innovations in consumer technologies have put pressure on publishing companies to create and store rich-media content. Wiley deployed VMware server virtualization tools and EMC Isilon scale-out NAS to transform its entire IT infrastructure, streamlining data access, while reducing energy consumption and data center complexity.

Customer Benefits:

• Power savings: Reduced power usage in the data center over 60% while tripling the number of virtual servers with VMware virtualization solutions
• Cost savings: Saved over $100,000 alone by leveraging Isilon SnapShotIQ and replication capabilities to replace traditional backup, while eliminating the need for a dedicated storage administrator, allowing IT personnel to focus on moving the business forward
• Faster data access: Added multiple points of access to the data, increasing interaction speed between LUNs and virtual machines four-fold.

Over the past two years, Wiley’s Indianapolis, Ind., operation had grown from 15 to 150 terabytes of data, most of it attributed to the newly created interactive, audio, and video content. This content is necessary to complement Wiley’s Professional/Trade, Global Education, and Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly publishing businesses.

In Indianapolis, Wiley undertook a project to completely transform its IT infrastructure. In one year, the company consolidated 187 servers to three with VMware virtualization solutions, reducing its data center power consumption by 60%. Wiley knew it needed to upgrade storage which could not manage the newly virtualized data center. After looking at multiple vendors, including NetApp and EqualLogic, Wiley chose EMC Isilon because of the systems’ virtualization integration, ease-of-use, scalable architecture, pay-as-you-go model, and longevity.

By implementing EMC Isilon X-Series and NL-Series systems, Wiley was able to simplify its entire storage infrastructure and add storage on demand. With EMC Isilon SyncIQ, SmartConnect, SnapShotIQ, the company eliminated traditional backup and storage maintenance, realizing savings of over $100,000 in one year. Wiley plans to deploy EMC Isilon to store and manage its Big Data across all of its global operations and implement a new disaster recovery plan built around the EMC Isilon scale-out NAS systems.

James Sample, Director, WAN Performance & Reliability at Wiley, said: "Our IT department was constantly configuring LUNs, forcing one member of the team to focus exclusively on storage administration. Having deployed EMC Isilon, we no longer have to worry about where and how to store and manage our digital files. We can focus on producing and delivering valuable, interactive content for and to our customers."

"EMC Isilon was the only option that didn’t force us to compromise on performance, scalability or ease of use as we scale to petabytes and as nodes grow in capacity. We’ve been here for over 200 years, so we are used to thinking long-term. We trust Isilon will go the distance with us."

Sam Grocott , VP marketing, EMC Isilon, said: "Wiley is an inspirational company – one that has embraced globalization, but maintained its long-established values. All businesses have been affected by the changes in technology over the past 20 years and, in order to remain competitive, Wiley have adapted. With EMC Isilon they were able to transform their IT infrastructure to deliver the same level of quality content that their customers have grown used to over the past two centuries."