"With Isilon, we've been able to deploy and manage a high-performance, highly scalable, shared storage resource without having to dedicate any IT staff to managing the system."
Senior Bioinformatician, Pharmacogenomics Centre.
Enable Greater Research Productivity with Isilon Storage
Dramatic advances in next gen sequencing technologies, ever-greater microscopy resolutions and a many-fold increase in the number of medical imaging devices are driving unprecedented growth of critical file-based research data. Isilon scale-out NAS solutions dramatically increase the productivity of mission-critical life science and bioinformatics research applications and workflows by 50 percent while driving down complexity and cost by one-third.
Making a High-Growth Environment Simple & Powerful
Life science and bioinformatics organizations pursue their research objectives in myriad ways, but their storage challenges have much in common. They require massive scaling headroom, significant storage performance, accommodation of various file types and access patterns, and multi-protocol accessibility. And most of all, as organizations often perceived as "data rich" but "IT-light", they need their large-scale storage to be simple. Simple to buy, build, maintain, and grow.
Isilon's life sciences and bioinformatics customers benefit from Isilon IQ's ability to:
- Easily and non-disruptively scale a single file system/single volume on a "pay-as-you-grow" basis from 6 terabytes to over 5 petabytes.
- Provide simplicity and ease-of-use that extend the productivity of one FTE to multi-petabyte scale.
- Accommodate a wide range of file types and access patterns.
- Enable raw storage utilization rates to over 80 percent.
- Reduce technology "lock-in" risk with multi-protocol access options.
- Facilitate massive concurrent read/write access.
- Drive productivity in a wide range of workflows-from the highest performance HPC environments to massive data archives.
Complete and Cost-Effective Scale-out NAS for Maximum Workflow Productivity
Isilon scale-out NAS solutions, designed specifically to meet the challenges typical of life science and bioinformatics organizations, offer the only "pay-as-you-grow" model for adding storage capacity quickly and easily. Isilon's range of capabilities for accessing online, nearline, and long-term data helps you to configure just the right solution for your needs, and cost-effectively adapt as your needs change. When it comes to achieving exceptional productivity for mission critical research applications and workflows, Isilon's award-winning solutions deliver.
