NL-Series Platform Node

Highly Economical, Highly Scalable, Nearline Storage

As priorities for data change frequently, cost-effective data storage and management must be balanced with the need for quick access. The EMC® Isilon® NL-Series bridges the gap between high-performance, costly, primary storage and inexpensive, management-intensive, off-line storage solutions.

Simple to Install and Manage

  • Online and serving data in less than 10 minutes after racked without time-consuming, expensive integration services
  • Eliminate the need for multiple volumes with the EMC Isilon single pool of storage with a global namespace
  • Single pool storage makes the massive capacity of the NL-Series as simple to manage as a single terabyte

Cost Savings

The NL-Series is purpose-built for large capacity storage - enabling near-primary storage performance at near-tape storage costs. The NL Platform Node is a cost effective way to ensure quick access to aging data.

  • High utilization rates — Greater than 80% utilization means more storage with fewer spindles, reducing capital outlay and increasing overall storage efficiency
  • Best Dollar Per Terabyte ($/TB): The NL-series scale-out storage solution provides the best value per TB of any Isilon offering
  • Ultra-High Density: Offering 36, 72, or 108TB of raw storage in a 4U chassis

Seamless Enterprise Integration

  • Significantly improves existing tape backup, archiving, and data protection strategies
  • Provides economical storage and rapid disk-based access to reference data to meet business and legal requirements
  • For organizations whose multi-site replication strategy requires an economical, high-capacity storage device to be located remotely

Dramatically Improve Existing Tape Backup, Archiving, and Data Protection

  • Online Archiving: Add economical storage and rapid disk-based access to reference data to meet business and legal requirements
  • Disaster Recovery: Combine with the Isilon SyncIQ™ replication application to create an economical, high-capacity, remote storage device

Isilon's Scale-out NAS Platform, powered by our OneFS® operating system, combines a robust suite of management applications and industry-standard, enterprise-class hardware to deliver meaningful and sustainable productivity enhancements.