Home Directories & File Sharing

Powerful, Simple Storage for Home Directories and File Sharing

File server sprawl has forced enterprises to react by consolidating file servers to monolithic NAS silos, creating a reliance on inefficient data replication and namespace aggregation tools. While this consolidation temporarily reduces the number of servers to manage, what happens when the NAS systems targeted for consolidation are underutilized, or run low on capacity or performance?

Isilon scale-out NAS provides a truly scalable, general-purpose file services platform for right-sizing performance and capacity on-the-fly. Isilon's modular, pay-as-you-grow architecture enables precise, incremental scaling of all NAS resources—network, CPU, cache, and disk capacity. Resources are added non-disruptively, so file sharing clients remain connected and productive.

Isilon offers an ideal solution for enterprise file services

• Home directories
• General-purpose user and application files
• Internal or external cloud infrastructure initiatives

Simplicity

With Isilon’s single file system you eliminate RAID, volumes, and local file systems through a single, unified namespace.

Efficiency

Achieve 30-percent higher utilization over traditional storage architectures and drive down day-to-day power and cooling costs.

Agility

Storage capacity and/or performance can be added non-disruptively and you can instantly scale your storage to match usage demands in real-time.

Support for multi-protocol file-sharing clients

Isilon supports Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX, and VMware along with directory services such as Microsoft Active Directory and UNIX-based LDAP servers.  Isilon also supports CIFS NAS and NFS NAS--all in one easy-to-manage, easy-to-grow system.

Isilon applications deliver a complete solution

The OneFS operating system provides an easy-to-manage, ever-expandable, single unified namespace. SmartQuotas provide true directory-level thin provisioning and reporting for users and groups. SnapshotIQ enables fine-grained restore of users' files and folders, efficiently--without managing reserve space.

With Isilon, you can simplify your file services and home directory environment, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and ensure availability of your vital Windows/UNIX files.