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| Isilon Releases New EX 6000 Product Isilon Systems has announced the release of the Isilon EX 6000, a high capacity clustered storage product extending the Isilon IQ clustered storage platform into the burgeoning near-line archive, disk-to-disk backup and disaster recovery markets. Leveraging key software innovations delivered with the release of Isilon's new OneFS 4.0 distributed file system, in concert with the industry's first implementation of SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) for storage expansion, the Isilon EX 6000, in combination with the Isilon IQ 6000, provides customers with the enterprise-class storage solution enabling instant online access for all enterprise information. In conjunction with its release, Isilon has also announced that Cedars-Sinai, Kodak EasyShare Gallery and E! Networks are among customers already using the EX 6000 in combination with Isilon IQ. In a new research report entitled, "Digital Archiving: End-users Survey and Market Forecast 2006-2010", ESG conducted quantitative and qualitative research across 568 IT, business and records management professional in both private and public sector organization and reported the following conclusions: * Disk-based digital archive and capacity will grow at a CAGR of more than 90 percent between 2005 and 2010 - to more than 27,000 Petabytes or 27 Exabytes. * The transition to disk-based archival storage is well underway as users seek to migrate new and existing digital assets off of tape-based media and onto disk-based archival storage systems. * End-users are deploying - and will continue to deploy - specialized digital archiving and content management software and storage solutions. The EX 6000 contains 6 Terabytes of SATA-II disk capacity in a 2U form factor and utilizes state-of-the-art Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology to connect to each Isilon IQ 6000 platform node. By leveraging Isilon's new OneFS 4.0 with TrueScale and SAS, the combined products create a high-density offering that modularly scales from 60 to hundreds of Terabytes in a single unified cluster and single file system. This solution integrates seamlessly within existing enterprise network infrastructures, communicates using standard NAS file sharing protocols over Gigabit Ethernet, and serves as an ideal multi-tier storage solution for near-line archive, disk-to-disk backup and restore, as well as remote disaster recovery applications. * Near-line Archiving - Using Isilon IQ 6000 paired with the EX 6000, large scale and less frequently accessed information can be seamlessly moved to an economical and highly available secondary tier of disk-based storage that enables businesses to lower total storage costs while providing instantaneous access to important information, including CAD/CAM designs, check images, historical documents, medical images, video, audio, photographs, electronic documents, presentations, e-mail attachments and more. * Disk-to-Disk Backup and Restore - Consolidation of backup information onto an Isilon IQ 6000 with EX 6000 cluster significantly reduces backup windows, restore times and restore failures commonly found with traditional tape-based backup systems. * Remote Disaster Recovery - When combined with Isilon's SyncIQ replication software, Isilon IQ 6000 with EX 6000 cluster serves as a superior business continuance storage solution; ensuring enterprise information is online and accessible in the event of a disaster. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |