Isilon IQ Clustered Storage System
Isilon IQ Clustered Storage
System—The Power
to Transform Data Into
Breakthroughs.
An Ideal Solution for Deriving Business Value
From the Exploding Growth of Digital Content
and Unstructured Data
The world of enterprise data storage is rapidly evolving from one grounded in words and text- based
information to one built on a higher-value foundation of images, digital content, and unstructured
data. Groundbreaking new applications in computer modeling and simulation, entertainment,
aerospace and defense, life sciences research, Internet services and business analysis are combining
with high-bandwidth networks to create an entirely new class of digital content. As more businesses
and people create and use these new types of data, the need for innovative ways to store, manage and
access it continues to grow—exponentially. Isilon
®
System’s award-winning clustered storage products
are designed specifically to meet the needs of today’s data intensive enterprises. Isilon IQ clustered
storage systems speed access to critical data, while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of
storing and managing it; which gives you the power to transform your data into information—and your
information into breakthroughs.
Isilon IQ combines Isilon’s OneFS
®
operating system software with best-of-breed, industry-standard
hardware to create a single file system that delivers unsurpassed reliability, scalability, performance
and value. Isilon IQ is the first clustered storage system that can be seamlessly grown from
4 terabytes to 1.6 petabytes in a single file system and can scale up to 10 GB/second of throughput.
The Isilon IQ clustered storage product line addresses enterprises’ full spectrum of storage needs—
from the highest performance tier-1 applications to tier-2 nearline archive, disk-to-disk backup and
disaster recovery. Powered by OneFS, the Isilon IQ family of products creates a single pool of
expandable storage that is easy to install and grow—once racked, a 10, 50 or 100+ terabyte cluster
takes less than 10 minutes to configure and set up, and capacity can be added on the fly in less than
60 seconds with no downtime.
The Isilon product line is comprised of the IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000 and 9000 platform nodes, the
EX 6000, EX 9000, and IQ Accelerator extension nodes, and licensable software applications such as
SyncIQ, SnapShotIQ, MigrationIQ, SmartConnect, and SmartQuotas. This flexible product line
satisfies customers’ varying capacity and performance needs for all digital content and file-based
information. In addition, Isilon’s unique TrueScale™ technology enables 1920, 3000, 6000 and
9000 nodes to scale both performance and capacity linearly or independently based on application or
workflow needs.
How breakthroughs begin.
™
Key Features
•PoweredbyOneFS
®
operating
system software, distributed file
system creates a single, shared
global namespace
•Firstandonlytrulysymmetrical
clustered storage architecture
•Systemcanscalefrom4TB-1.6PB
in a single file system
•Unmatchedaggregatethroughput
from a single file system with up
to 10 GB/second
•TrueScale™enableslinearand
independent scaling of both
capacity and performance
•Industryleadinghighavailability
for clustered storage systems
•Powerful,easy-to-useweb-based
management
•60-secondscalingofboth
capacity and performance
•Built-inautomaticapplication/
client connection load balancing
•Industry-standardprotocol
support (NFS, CIFS, HTTP, FTP,
NDMP, SNMP, LDAP, ADS, NIS)
•IsilonDataProtection/
Management and IQ Software:
SyncIQ™, SnapshotIQ™,
MigrationIQ™, SmartConnect™,
and SmartQuotas™
Isilon IQ Platform Overview