Schlumberger, Paradigm Geophysical, Enigma Data Solutions, Ovation Data Services and Seismic Micro-Technology have joined with Isilon to drive innovation and business breakthroughs in oil and gas market: Isilon Systems announced at the annual Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) 2007 conference that leading oil and gas companies including Arena Energy, GGS-Spectrum, Inc., Ikon Science, Paradigm Geophysical and Perenco have joined Isilon's rapidly expanding roster of oil and gas customers including Arcis, Brigham Exploration, Kelman Technologies, Penn Virginia, Seismic Exchange and Tricon Geophysics. Isilon has also announced agreements with a number of premier oil and gas solution providers, including an OEM agreement with Schlumberger and business relationships with Paradigm Geophysical, Enigma Data Solutions, Ovation Data Services and Seismic Micro-Technology. In the worldwide race to discover new energy reserves, 3D seismic data processing is essential for identifying and extracting promising oil deposits, generating hundreds of terabytes of data each day. According to research firm Energy Insights, an IDC Company, an oil company typically relies on upwards of 350 terabytes of data with more arriving on a daily basis, creating an immediate and critical need for highly scalable, high performance and easy to use storage solutions. "The global rush for oil is really a global rush for technology that will improve the speed and accuracy of locating oil and gas reserves," said Brett Goodwin, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Isilon Systems. "A key factor in this process is being able to quickly and comprehensively analyze enormous amounts of seismic test data. Isilon IQ clustered storage is ideal for managing, storing and accessing large files from a single file system. This gives oil and gas exploration companies a significantly faster way to collate test data, analyze the results, and then make the critical business decision of where to commit their drilling resources." Leading Companies Accelerate Seismic Analysis with Isilon IQ Continuing Isilon's mission of delivering clustered storage solutions to the oil and gas industry, companies such as Arena Energy, GGS-Spectrum, Ikon Science, Paradigm Geophysical and Perenco are incorporating Isilon IQ into their data center operations. "As the competition and stakes intensify in the race to discover new oil and gas resources, accurate and efficient analysis of seismic data is absolutely critical to advancing our business initiatives," said Derek Scoyles, President, GGS-Spectrum Inc. "In order to execute at the highest level, we require storage that delivers the high performance necessary to power our seismic processing applications and computing clusters. With Isilon, we can now analyze our massive quantities of seismic data more quickly and more efficiently to accelerate our global projects, and ultimately advance our business." Premier Oil and Gas Solution Providers Join with Isilon A critical pillar of Isilon's success in the oil and gas marketplace has been the company's focus on fostering deep, cooperative relationships with key solution providers to integrate Isilon IQ into their broader IT systems solutions for oil and gas exploration. These companies include Schlumberger, Paradigm Geophysical, Enigma Data Solutions, Ovation Data Services and Seismic Micro-Technology. "The oil and gas industry is being driven in part by new technological advances in the collection, analysis and utilization of seismic data. In order to maximize the value of this critical information, companies must be able to reliably access and process their data stores in less time and with greater accuracy, requiring a storage system with a high degree of performance and scalability," said Clay Miller, CIO, Paradigm Geophysical. "Isilon clustered storage is used to advance our own business operations in support of our customers needs." Isilon IQ Powered by OneFS, Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly growing stores of digital content, eliminating the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures. OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon's award-winning IQ family of clustered storage systems including the Isilon IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, 9000, Accelerator, and EX 6000 and 9000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications including SnapshotIQ(R), SmartConnect, SmartQuotas, MigrationIQ and SyncIQ that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data management.