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    Isilon Claims Massive Scalability in New Cluster Nodes

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    Chris Preimesberger
    Published July 27, 2007
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      Enterprise storage vendor Isilon Systems on July 23 launched two new very-high-density cluster storage systems that the company claims achieve scalability levels 100 times those of traditional SAN and NAS systems.

      Isilons IQ 9000 and EX 9000 products, combined with the latest version of the Seattle-based companys OneFS operating system (Version 4.7), feature high-performance data access, modular scalability and ease of administration. They are the first storage arrays to scale up to 1.6 petabytes of capacity in a single file system and single volume, Isilon Vice President of Marketing and Business Development Brett Goodwin told eWEEK.

      Isilons high-end clustered storage is designed for extremely heavy I/O activity and large linear file transfers, such as video and audio streaming, oil and gas exploration applications, and scientific research.

      Isilon also announced that Comcast Entertainment Group, Dailymotion (the YouTube of Europe), Kodak Gallery and PhotoBox are some of its customers that are early adopters of the IQ 9000 and EX 9000.

      The Isilon IQ 9000 platform node and Isilon EX 9000 platform extension node each contain 12 Seagate 750GB SATA-II disk drives, providing 9TB of capacity in a 2U (3.5-inch) form factor.

      /zimages/5/28571.gifClick here to read about EMCs updates to its storage array line.

      The IQ 9000 provides linear scaling of both capacity and performance with the addition of each modular, 2U node. The EX 9000, when paired with the Isilon IQ 9000, provides scaling of capacity independent of performance to achieve unmatched value for storing and accessing large and rapidly growing archives of unstructured data and digital content, the company said.

      “Clustered storage, following the rise and broad adoption of the clustered computing paradigm, is a hot topic,” Goodwin said. “With the IQ 9000 and EX 9000, Isilon offers a single pool of storage that is 100 times more scalable than traditional storage systems, providing unprecedented economies of scale … to enable dramatic advancements in data access, collaboration and sharing that are necessary for the near-line archive and Web 2.0 application markets.”

      Isilon also provides a package of proprietary software applications that include SnapshotIQ, SmartConnect, SmartQuotas, MigrationIQ and SyncIQ that run on OneFS, Goodwin said.

      Clustered storage—of which Isilon is one of the leading examples—is maturing and crossing over from highly technical computing applications to more mainstream applications in the core of the data center, analyst Steve Norall of the Taneja Group told eWEEK.

      “As that transformation occurs, Isilon will increasingly run up against Network Appliance and EMC. Both NetApp (speaking of their FAS line) and EMC are mature and have large set of value-added software that users crave and desire (snapshots, thin provisioning, clones, quotas, compliance functions, etc.),” Norall said.

      Clustered storage has a superior architecture for sequential large-block I/O applications over NetApp and EMC main filers, Norall said.

      /zimages/5/28571.gifClick here to read about Data Domains claim to offer the “industrys most scalable” inline storage controller.

      “With this announcement and Isilons previous announcement of snapshots, they are closing the feature/function gap between traditional NAS incumbents, but on a superior architecture (e.g. clustered). Capabilities like snaps and quotas are critical and a prerequisite for running in the core data center,” he said.

      “Specifically, their SmartQuotas implementation is, in my opinion, more flexible and powerful than traditional NetApp qTrees (what NetApp calls their quotas),” Norall said. “Isilon can do directory-level quotas throughout the namespace. So in one sense, Isilon has leapfrogged NetApp on this feature.”

      The Isilon IQ 9000 and EX 9000 arrays are available now. For pricing information, go here. The software package, including SmartQuotas, is priced at $1,950 per node, Goodwin said.

      /zimages/5/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, reviews and analysis on enterprise and small business storage hardware and software.

      Chris Preimesberger
      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
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