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Isilon Systems today announced unprecedented growth spanning all facets of its business, underscoring the rapid adoption of clustered storage across the enterprise market. Isilon has shipped more than 2000 clustered storage systems and reports that more than 50 percent of Isilon clustered storage has been purchased by Fortune 500 companies. The company also announced more than 300 percent growth of its customer base and revenues, year over year. Isilon Systems' clustered storage product line was specifically designed to address the burgeoning market of unstructured and file-based enterprise data - images, documents, audio, video, research data, computer models and simulations - which has surged to represent the majority of all new enterprise information and is projected to grow to more than 27,000 Petabytes, or 27 Exabytes, by 2010. "The extraordinary growth of unstructured data and digital content is a new challenge facing enterprises; a challenge traditional SAN and NAS storage systems simply cannot address," said Steve Goldman, CEO of Isilon Systems. "Isilon's rapid growth and ascendance in the enterprise market is powerful confirmation that clustered storage is accelerating workflow and productivity for enterprise customers, while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity as compared to traditional storage systems." Growth of Unstructured and File-Based Data Surging in the Enterprise According to the forecasts of leading storage analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), unstructured data and file-based data will represent 58 percent of new corporate and government information by the end of 2006. This information is predicted to grow at an astounding rate of 92 percent CAGR between 2005 and 2010. Accelerating the Innovation Frontier in Enterprise Storage Isilon IQ is the first and only true enterprise clustered storage system, providing the unprecedented storage capacity, performance and ease of use required to cost-effectively address the unique requirements of unstructured data and digital content. With its truly symmetric clustered architecture, single distributed file system, unmatched ease of management, as well as high availability and self-healing features, Isilon IQ has won a number of prestigious IT and storage industry awards and is setting new standards in the enterprise storage market. In its relentless pursuit to deliver new innovations to the market and empower enterprise customers to store, manage and instantly access these exploding data stores, Isilon today released its next generation clustered storage systems.