Isilon Scale-out Storage
Isilon’s Scale-out Storage Platform, powered by the OneFS® operating system, combines a robust suite of management applications and enterprise-class hardware to deliver meaningful and sustainable productivity enhancements. Isilon’s three product lines provide a broad range of options to address enterprise storage needs. Isilon’s software applications provide enterprise-grade storage management, protection, and distribution capabilities.
Whether enterprises choose Isilon to store massive amounts of data in a single file system, to boost storage performance and/or to consolidate dozens of applications, Isilon’s three dimensions of scale and extraordinary simplicity stand at the forefront of enterprise storage innovation.
DZ Solutions (DZS) has been carrying Isilon products since we started our hardware practice in 2006. Isilon is one of our go-to partners for enterprise and entertainment and storage problem solving. As an Isilon Preferred Platinum Partner, we enjoy the benefits of the highest level of partnership with Isilon Systems, and 2010 marks the second year that we’ve maintained platinum status.
DZS carries the full line of Isilon products and our technicians maintain certifications and training to deliver professional services on all products in the Isilon platform. We showcase Isilon products in our demonstration lab and we’ve used Isilon for everything from VMware virtualization deployments, to Final Cut Pro ProRes workflows, to graphics rendering for 3-D animation and digital compositing.
Our Isilon practice includes a full line of complementary products for use with Isilon products. For example, we can design a VMware for Citrix workflow around Isilon and we can use Final Cut Pro with Isilon.
We carry Isilon’s full line of products including:
OneFS System:
OneFS® is Isilon’s sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon® scale-out storage systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster.
Isilon’s OneFS enables:
- independent or linear scalability of performance and capacity to over 45 Gigabytes per second of throughput and more than 10.4 petabytes of capacity in a single file system
- a single point of management for large and rapidly growing repositories of data
- mission-critical reliability and high availability with state-of-the-art data protection
Scale-Out Platform Nodes:
Isilon delivers increased performance for file-based data applications and workflows, from the highest performance, I/O-intensive applications, to primary and secondary storage, to nearline archives, all from a single file system architecture.
Isilon hardware platforms are designed for simplicity, value, best-in-class performance, and unmatched reliability.
- S-Series – IOPS-Intensive Applications
- X-Series – High-Concurrent and Sequential Throughput Workflows
- NL-Series – Near-Primary Accessibility with Near-Tape Value
Seamlessly scale performance and capacity.
- Performance Accelerator – Ultimate Performance
- Backup Accelerator Node – High-Speed and Scalable Backup and Restore Solution
- EX Capacity Extension Nodes – Independent Scaling of Capacity
Application Software:
As managing data is mission-critical for most organizations and enterprises, the need for software applications to meet critical data protection, access, management and availability needs becomes ever more important. To complete the Isilon Scale-out Storage Platform, Isilon has developed and delivered the industry’s first suite of scale-out storage software applications for the enterprise.
- SmartPools: SmartPools enables you to aggregate and consolidate applications – providing workflow isolation, higher utilization, and independent scalability – with a single point of management.
- SmartConnect: Through intelligent software policies, and without the need to install cumbersome client-side drivers, SmartConnect simplifies the management and maximizes the performance for large numbers of clients that access Isilon IQ clusters.
- SnapshotIQ: Through its innovative, flexible design, SnapshotIQ closes the gaps between snapshot schedules, giving more flexibility in meeting recovery point and recovery time goals.
- InsightIQ: InsightIQ provides innovative, advanced analytics to optimize applications, correlate workflow and network events, and accurately forecast future storage needs.
- SmartQuotas: SmartQuotas allows you to control and limit storage usage and to provision a single pool of Isilon scale-out storage to best meet storage challenges.
- SyncIQ: SyncIQ is a simple to manage, but highly sophisticated, policy-based file replication management tool to quickly and efficiently move mission-critical data through a globally distributed network.
- Aspera For Isilon IQ: Aspera and Isilon Systems have created the first predictable, high-performance Wide Area File and Content Delivery solution designed to move large files long distances—at the fastest speeds possible.
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