Simple Scalability, Massive Capacity

Minimizing cost and management time for underlying storage is a critical factor in the deployment and success of public or private clouds. With Isilon, capacity and performance is delivered in a single storage system, a single file system, and a single volume, so management time and complexity won’t increase no matter how much storage you add or what your business needs in the future.

By making the decision to store data in a consolidated architecture, storage becomes simple to manage, enabling you to focus on strategic cloud initiatives. 

Efficiency and Cost Savings

The ability to easily manage storage over time without requiring extensive resources, seamlessly scale capacity and/or performance and leveraging the continuing commoditization of storage is built into the Isilon Scale-out storage platform.

• A single, scalable volume provides true operating leverage.
• Isilon applications including SmartConnect and SmartQuotas simplify the administration of common cloud tasks such as balancing load across the system, have native support for on-demand storage and enforcing/reporting on actual end-user utilization.
• With the ability to add capacity and/or performance in less than 60 seconds, Isilon enables you to balance spending with actual storage usage – key for a successful cloud business model.

Simple to Manage

Isilon is unique in the ability to create a single, scalable file-system, that can seamlessly, non-disruptively increase both performance and capacity.

• With Isilon, you dramatically reduce management time with a single file-system and avoid spending your time managing multiple systems, multiple volumes and multiple filers. 
• The Isilon Scale-out storage platform enables you to support virtualization solutions and provide for shared access on the same storage device with varying degrees of isolation.

Agility

Isilon enables you to build a storage model around multiple systems that can scale dynamically, provide far-greater protection mechanisms than standard RAID and have per-workflow performance and capacity optimization capabilities.

Industry Leading Products and Applications

• For private clouds, especially those focused on handling traditional enterprise workloads, lower density X-Series nodes or S-Series nodes deliver higher performance required.
• For public cloud providers,the Isilon S-Series delivers maximum concurrency with an excellent balance of price/performance. The NL-Series is also ideal for public clouds, especially those with large amounts of data at rest.
• For disaster recovery/business continuance the SyncIQ application is ideal for storage replication.
• SmartPools delivers the ability to drive costs down by migrating stale data to lower cost points while maximizing the performance of working set data.