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| Isilon Systems Releases Isilon IQ Accelerator Isilon Systems has announced the release of the Isilon IQ Accelerator, the storage industry's first performance acceleration product, which can scale to more than 7 gigabytes per second of total aggregate throughput from a single file system and single cluster. The Isilon IQ Accelerator, released in conjunction with Isilon's new OneFS 4.0 distributed file system, serves as a dynamic expansion of Isilon's award-winning product line of Isilon IQ clustered storage systems. With the new Isilon IQ Accelerator, customers can modularly increase the aggregate write and read throughput of their data storage without adding additional storage capacity. The result is a significant acceleration of business productivity and collaboration across the enterprise workflow while achieving unmatched price-performance in the storage industry. Coupled with Isilon's OneFS 4.0 with TrueScale, the Isilon IQ Accelerator automatically joins any Isilon IQ storage cluster in 15 seconds and turbo-charges storage performance on the fly with no system downtime. The release of the Isilon IQ Accelerator marks another important advance of the clustered storage innovation frontier while also delivering key business benefits which are transforming enterprise data storage. The key performance, productivity and economic benefits of the Isilon IQ Accelerator are: -- Dynamic Performance Acceleration - The Isilon IQ Accelerator, coupled with Isilon's OneFS 4.0 with TrueScale, ushers in the storage industry's first DPA software, enabling customers to turbo-charge their data storage performance on the fly in under 15 seconds, with no down-time or network interruption. Isilon's DPA software eliminates the burdensome manual tasks required when trying to scale performance with all traditional NAS and SAN network storage systems, eliminating complexity, cost and the risk of downtime from human error. -- Increased Reliability and Data Protection - The Isilon IQ Accelerator enhances Isilon's reliability by utilizing the Isilon IQ Accelerator's additional CPU, memory and bandwidth to further reduce industry-leading disk and node rebuild times and accelerate advance cluster services such as SyncIQ asynchronous data replication for backup and disaster recovery. Isilon IQ Accelerator nodes can be seamlessly added to Isilon's full product line - the Isilon IQ 1920, 3000, 4800 and 6000 - 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. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |