Top 5 Reasons To Choose Isilon’s Scale-Out NAS Products

1. Simplicity – You need a storage system that is simple to buy, build, maintain, and grow. Isilon’s easy-to-manage scale-out NAS significantly reduces your TCO. With Isilon scale out NAS you don’t need to add storage administrators as your storage grows. One person can now manage petabytes of data, minimizing operating expenditures and keeping your staff focused on managing their data—not their storage.

2. Scalability – You face unpredictable storage and capacity requirements. Isilon scale-out NAS solutions enable you to non-disruptively scale performance and capacity in the right combination, depending on the usage access pattern or content type of your business. Isilon storage can scale capacity from 20 terabytes to 10 petabytes in a single file system and scale performance up to 50GB per second.

3. Efficiency – Isilon solutions significantly accelerate the productivity of mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes to help speed time to market and enable you to pursue new business opportunities. Isilon’s industry-leading solutions deliver greater than 80% storage utilization for your mission critical applications.By taking advantage of our industry-leading ease-of-use and unique “pay-as-you grow”model, you can reduce operational costs and match the timing of capital expenditures directly with the growth of your data.

4. Availability – Isilon offers the industry’s highest level of end-to-end data protection. Byoffering up to quadruple failure protection, Isilon ensures that even if up to4 nodes or drives fail simultaneously, 100% of your data is still available.Automatic replication of data to remote sites can be performed without impact on other network resources.

5. Isilon Enables Success – Isilon is committed to removing the barriers that exist between businesses and their data. That’s why we’ve designed our scale-out storage platform to serve asa powerful yet simple foundation for effective data and application management.While storage by itself cannot drive a business forward, the right storage can reduce cost and complexity in a way that fuels innovation, sustains growth and delivers competitive advantage. Over 1,600 leading organizations world-wide rely on Isilon’s scale-out NAS solutions.

Scale-out Platform Nodes

The Isilon Scale-out S Platform for High Performance, Capability and Scalability

Isilon delivers increased performance for file-based data applications and workflows, from the highest performance, I/O-intensive applications, to primary and secondary storage, to nearline archives, all from a single file system architecture.

Powered by the OneFS® Operating System, all components in an Isilon cluster create a unified pool of highly efficient storage-with a proven 80 percent storage utilization rate. Isilon’s high efficiency means less physical storage is required to house the same amount of data, reducing capital and operating costs.

• Single volume, single file system and ease-of management requires less than one FTE per petabyte, reducing overall storage costs.
• Up to 10.4 petabytes and up to 85 GBps of throughput and up to 1.4 million IOPS in a single file system.
• Add capacity and/or performance within 60 seconds. With the OneFS auto-balance feature you can quickly and easily add nodes without downtime, manual data migration, or application logic reconfiguration, saving IT resources.
• With Isilon you don’t need to over-provision storage capacity or performance – purchase storage only when you need it and scale “on the fly”.

Isilon hardware platforms are designed for simplicity, value, best-in-class performance, and unmatched reliability.

• S-Series – IOPS-Intensive Applications
• X-Series – High-Concurrent and Sequential Throughput Workflows
• NL-Series – Near-Primary Accessibility with Near-Tape Value

Seamlessly scale performance and capacity

• Performance Accelerator – Ultimate Performance
• Backup Accelerator Node – High-Speed and Scalable Backup and Restore Solution
• EX Capacity Extension Nodes – Independent Scaling of Capacity

Application Software

Scale-out NAS Applications for The Enterprise

As managing data is mission-critical for most organizations and enterprises, the need for software applications to meet critical data protection, access, management and availability needs becomes ever more important. To complete the Isilon Scale-out NAS Platform, Isilon has developed and delivered the industry’s first suite of scale-out NAS software applications for the enterprise.

SmartPools – SmartPools enables you to aggregate and consolidate applications – providing workflow isolation, higher utilization, and independent scalability – with a single point of management.

SmartConnect – Through intelligent software policies, and without the need to install cumbersome client-side drivers, SmartConnect simplifies the management and maximizes the performance for large numbers of clients that access Isilon IQ clusters.

SnapshotIQ – Through its innovative, flexible design, SnapshotIQ closes the gaps between snapshot schedules, giving more flexibility in meeting recovery point and recovery time goals.

A Powerful, Yet Simple Way to Manage Data and Applications

InsightIQ – InsightIQ provides innovative, advanced analytics to optimize applications, correlate workflow and network events, and accurately forecast future storage needs.

SmartQuotas – SmartQuotas allows you to control and limit storage usage and to provision a single pool of Isilon scale-out storage to best meet storage challenges.

SyncIQ – SyncIQ is a simple to manage, but highly sophisticated, policy-based file replication management tool to quickly and efficiently move mission-critical data through a globally distributed network.

Aspera For Isilon IQ – Aspera and Isilon Systems have created the first predictable, high-performance Wide Area File and Content Delivery solution designed to move large files long distances—at the fastest speeds possible.