STORAGE

New Class of Clustered Storage at a Groundbreaking Price Ushers in Breakthrough Benefits to a Wide Spectrum of Businesses Harris Corporation to OEM New Solution; Resellers From Isilon's Ecosystem of More Than One Hundred Channel Partners Embrace Isilon's IQ 200 to Meet Broad Market Demand: In its focused pursuit to bring the breakthrough benefits of clustered storage to the broadest spectrum of businesses, Isilon Systems today announced the release of the Isilon IQ 200. Leveraging Isilon's OneFS operating system software, which powers all of Isilon's clustered storage systems, the Isilon IQ 200 is the industry's first product to pack the revolutionary benefits of high-end enterprise clustered storage -- including unmatched ease of use, performance and "pay as you grow" scalability -- into an extremely affordable and compact solution. This new class of clustered storage enables businesses of all sizes to speed access to critical stores of digital content while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of storing and managing it. A number of Isilon customers have already deployed more than 50 units of the Isilon IQ 200 before its official launch. With its ease of use, low cost and wide applicability, the Isilon IQ 200 serves as an attractive product for Isilon's channel and OEM partners. In conjunction with the launch of IQ 200, Isilon and Harris Corporation today announced that Harris Corporation is going to deliver the IQ 200 under the companies' OEM agreement. Isilon also announced today that more than 30 channel resellers and distributors have embraced the IQ 200 to meet broad market demand for clustered storage. "Organizations of all sizes are creating, storing, and relying more on digital content as they respond to changing business requirements, and they are seeking solutions that can help them maintain control over this vast and growing amount of data," said Brad Nisbet, Program Manager, Storage Systems at IDC. "Products like Isilon's IQ 200 that allow a wide group of companies to address scalability challenges in terms of both performance and capacity will be necessary as IT managers work to successfully manage this growth." "Isilon is one of our most important partners in providing a solution to the ever-expanding storage requirements of our customers. Digital content is creating the need for true clustered storage, while IT resources remain overstretched and in need of simple, powerful management interfaces to keep data available and safe. Isilon is answering the call for many of our clients, and with the new IQ 200 we can now offer these features to a wider audience," said Alan Dumas, President of Accunet Solutions. In contrast to Isilon's high-end enterprise line of clustered storage products which can scale up to 10Gbps of performance and one Petabyte of capacity in a single file system and single volume, the IQ 200 modularly scales from 6TB to a maximum of 48TB. The Isilon IQ 200 is an extremely compact and affordable product designed to provide businesses of all sizes with the breakthrough benefits of high-end enterprise clustered storage, including the following key benefits: -- Unmatched Ease Of Use -- Powered by Isilon's OneFS operating system software, the Isilon IQ 200 provides a single file system and single volume, delivering unmatched simplicity in system configuration and management. -- Seamless, Modular Scalability -- Leveraging Isilon's OneFS with TrueScale, the Isilon IQ 200 enables seamless, modular scaling of both performance and capacity. This flexible and tunable system provides enterprise customers with an "out of the box" solution that is fully optimized for the widest range of applications and workflow. -- High Performance -- The Isilon IQ 200 features unmatched levels of performance at its price point. With the IQ 200, customers can tailor performance to meet workflow demands, thereby maximizing network efficiency and speeding access to large and rapidly growing stores of digital content. "The challenges created by the rapid and sustained growth of digital content have extended beyond just large enterprises and are fueling the need for a new class of clustered storage solutions," said Brett Goodwin, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Isilon Systems. "The release of the IQ 200 represents a watershed event for the data storage market as Isilon and its partners deliver the powerful punch of clustered storage in a new product at an unmatched price, enabling the business masses to transform their data into information and their information into breakthroughs." The Isilon IQ 200 provides a complete clustered storage solution with basic hardware components consistent with Isilon's high-end line of enterprise clustered storage products and integrates with Isilon's full suite of data protection and data management software applications, including SnapshotIQ, SyncIQ and SmartConnect. Each IQ 200 node is 1 (RU) in size, providing business of all sizes with a storage system that fits not only their workflow needs, but the space requirements of their physical environment. Additionally, because the IQ 200 uses Isilon's OneFS operating system software, it is fully compatible to seamlessly share data with Isilon's high-end enterprise line of clustered storage products.