Isilon Systems Demonstrates Market Momentum and Leadership in Clustered Storage24 October 2005
Isilon(R) Systems, the leader inclustered storage, today announced that Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)unveiled the results of their lab tests of the Isilon IQ clustered storagesystem in their new ESG e-seminar series. ESG conducted three extensive testswith multiple product generations of Isilon IQ, engaged in discussions withseveral Isilon customers, and concluded that Isilon IQ meets ESG's four keycriteria for the true, next-generation NAS storage solution; clustered networkarchitecture, single file system, ease of management, and self-healing andhighly redundant operations. Isilon IQ both meets those criteria and sets theinnovation bar in clustered storage. The ESG e-seminar series featuringIsilon Systems can be viewed on Isilon's website at http://www.isilon.com/eseminar. Isilon also announced today that the company has marked dramatic growth inits customer base with the shipment of more than two Petabytes of clusteredstorage in the last six months to a broad range of industry leading companiesin manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, oil and gas, media andentertainment, digital and document imaging, financial services andgovernment. "After running Isilon products through three rigorous lab tests andinterviewing a wide range of Isilon customers, ESG determined that Isilontruly has the potential to be the next 'big thing' in the storage industry,"said Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst and Lab Director, ESG. "Isilon IQ has that'Aha!' factor. It is so much better than previous generations of storageproducts that it has the potential to become pervasive, much like when CD'smade records obsolete." "ESG is one of the few analyst firms that really understand products,technologies and the value they bring to customers and these test findingsreally validate Isilon's strategy and approach to clustered storage," saidBrett Goodwin, VP of marketing and business development for Isilon Systems."This e-seminar series is a great example of ESG's ability to develop newservices that educate the market and powerfully convey important developmentin the storage industry. Isilon is thrilled that it was chosen to be featuredin the debut edition of this new e-seminar series." Clustered Network Storage Is Next Generation NAS ESG conducted extensive tests of three product generations of Isilon IQand concluded that Isilon has met the four key criteria for the nextgeneration NAS storage solution. These criteria are: Clustered Storage Architecture -- Isilon IQ is a true clustered storagesystem, composed of independent nodes that work together, allowing the utmostflexibility in growing data storage and significant performance advantages forconcurrent access to data, ultimately accelerating workflow while increasingcollaboration and productivity across the entire system. Single File System -- OneFS(TM) is Isilon's patent-pending distributedfile system that provides the intelligence behind Isilon IQ. It combines thethree layers of traditional storage architectures -- file system, volumemanager and RAID -- into one unified software layer, creating a singleintelligent file system and shared pool of storage that spans all nodes withina cluster. This single file system combines mission-critical reliability andhigh availability with state-of-the-art data protection to provide customers acomplete clustered storage solution to meet their key business needs. Ease of Management -- Isilon IQ can be installed in an hour or less andadditional capacity can be added in a minute or less, providing for easymanagement and seamless, incremental scaling based on storage requirements.The clustered storage system offers decreased complexity, reduced risks and asimplified management interface that significantly lowers total cost ofownership, enabling enterprise customers to directly manage 1000 terabytes aseasily as one terabyte. "ESG is willing to put a stake in the ground that Isilon IQ is theeasiest storage system ESG has ever worked with," added Tony Asaro. Self-healing and highly redundant operations -- With Isilon IQ, data isautomatically protected across the entire cluster using all availableresources. Isilon OneFS distributed file system includes the uniqueFlexProtect-AP feature utilizing Reed Solomon "n+1 and n+2" ECC, paritystriping and mirrored file striping (from 2x to 8x) that spans multiple nodeswithin a cluster -- enabling customers to withstand the loss of multiple disksor nodes without losing access to any content. In the event of a drive or nodefailure, all data remains 100 percent available and is rebuilt to any freespace throughout the cluster -- capacity is not lost to designated "recoverydrives" and failed drives can be rebuilt in as little as one hour.Isilon recently announced the next generation of its award-winning Isilon IQfamily of clustered storage systems -- the Isilon IQ 1920, 3000 and4800 -- which are powered by the latest version of Isilon's award-winningOneFS distributed file system software and use high speed, low-latencyInfiniBand for intracluster communication. About Isilon Systems Isilon is the leader in clustered storage. Isilon's award-winning familyof Isilon IQ products consists of high-performance clustered storage systemsthat combine an intelligent distributed file system with modularindustry-standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability.Isilon IQ was designed for unstructured data and for use in data-intensivemarkets such as media and entertainment, digital imaging, life sciences, oiland gas and government. The Seattle-based company is financed by LehmanBrothers Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Atlas Venture, Madrona VentureGroup and Focus Ventures. For more information, please visit:http://www.isilon.com . NOTE: The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of theirrespective owners.
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