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MillimeterIsilon Releases New Isilon IQ Clustered Storage System
Oct 24, 2005 11:21 AM
Isilon Systems announced at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., that it has expanded its award-winning product line of Isilon IQ 1920, 3000 and 4800 clustered storage systems with the addition of the Isilon IQ 6000.
With this release, Isilon brings to market the storage industry’s largest production-ready single file system, providing a superior, 250TB capacity, clustered storage solution for both tier-one and tier-two storage needs. The Isilon IQ 6000 is the first clustered storage solution to implement Hitachi’s state-of-the-art 500GB SATA-2 drives as a key component of its system. Isilon IQ 6000 provides customers with key benefits that include reduction of storage ownership costs while reaching the highest capacity and availability of any clustered storage system.
“The explosive growth of unstructured data—images, documents, video, audio and research data, computer models, and simulations—represents the fasting growing class of data in enterprises, governments and universities. Traditional storage systems were not designed to effectively manage and store this type of information,” says Sujal Patel, founder and CTO, Isilon Systems. “Isilon IQ 6000 represents an important expansion of Isilon’s clustered storage product line, which is specifically designed to provide unmatched capacity, scalability and ease of use needed for customers to recognize the full value of their critical information.”
“With the millions of consumers worldwide who entrust their digital photos to Kodak EasyShare Gallery in order to view, store, share, and print 24x7x365, our storage and delivery platform is of paramount importance,” says Sonja Erickson, VP of technical operations, Kodak EasyShare Gallery. “Isilon Clustered Storage is a key component within our storage infrastructure and the new Isilon IQ 6000 further extends the cost and operating efficiencies of managing petabytes of storage.”
The Isilon IQ 6000 ushers in the highest capacity single file system available on the market today. Powered by its award-winning OneFS distributed file system software, the Isilon IQ 6000 scales to more than 250TB and more than 3GBps of throughput in a single file system, enabling customers with large and rapidly growing data storage requirements to easily manage and access one large single pool of storage, resulting in dramatically improved collaboration and workflow efficiency, as well as significantly reduced IT costs.
The Isilon IQ 6000 can scale to 126TB in a single 42U rack, reducing the precious data center space and costs required for high-capacity storage.
In addition to offering high capacity, the Isilon IQ 6000, with its OneFS distributed file system, provides unmatched availability in a clustered storage solution. OneFS features the unique FlexProtect-AP feature utilizing Reed Solomon “N+2” ECC, that spans multiple nodes within a cluster—enabling customers to withstand the loss of multiple disks or nodes without losing access to any data.
Isilon IQ 6000 is a first of its kind storage solution for both tier-one and tier-two storage, providing customers with the linear scaling of performance and capacity required for many tier-one primary storage applications, as well as the capacity and availability required for tier-two storage applications which include near-line archiving, disk-to-disk backup and disaster recovery.
The Isilon IQ 6000 joins Isilon’s award-winning family of next-generation clustered storage systems, including the Isilon IQ 1920, 3000 and 4800—which are powered by the latest version of Isilon's award-winning OneFS distributed file system software and use high speed, low-latency InfiniBand for intracluster communication.
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