"Due to the highly viral nature of our content, our data growth can be extreme and unpredictable. The Isilon storage solution enabled us to cost-effectively scale capacity and performance on the fly, while using the least amount of human resources to do so."
Predicting the Unpredictable: Being Ready for Success
Web and Internet companies require flexible, cost-effective infrastructures to fluidly scale and adapt on-the-fly as the elastic demands of the Internet or user base warrant.
Web and content providers face two major challenges:
- Cost-effectively scaling storage performance and capacity, non-disruptively
- Remaining agile and online during unpredictable growth patterns
Another challenge is the unpredictable nature of success on the Web. It's difficult to predict and know exactly when your site or service will take-off and flourish, or when content and traffic to your site will surge. For example, if a user posts a video that suddenly becomes popular, storage performance and capacity requirements could spike overnight.
This is why Facebook, JibJab, MySpace, Kodak Gallery, and many other customers are turning to scale-out NAS solutions from Isilon Systems.
Fluidly Scale and Adapt Storage Around Elastic Demands
You can fluidly and non-disruptively scale performance and capacity in the right combination, depending on the usage access pattern or content type of your business. As web, video, and image server utilization drives higher or requires more servers, Isilon's clustered storage architecture scales seamlessly in lock step with media serving capabilities.
An Isilon scale-out NAS cluster can scale from under 10 TBs to over 5 petabytes in a single file system. With the fifth generation of Isilon's unique OneFS® operating system software and the latest advances in industry-standard hardware, Isilon IQ® clustered storage delivers modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class storage systems-setting the standard in scale-out NAS.
Driving Efficiencies at Scale
Scale-out NAS is easy to use and manage. No special storage training or experience is required. You can start small and pay-as-you-grow. Isilon customers range from small web sites to the largest active media and content stores in the world. Your staff will not need any special training, and you can manage large and growing data sets with very few people.
Accelerate Your Service
Isilon's clustered storage operating system, OneFS, provides the cornerstone of accelerating service performance as access or capacity needs demand. Capacity and performance scales-out and -back, non-disruptively, in modular units, as demand dictates. As new content is created or the workload increases, performance improves as your NAS cluster scales-out. Isilon makes it easy to add performance on the fly, only when it's actually needed.
