New Isilon IQ 72NL and 72000X Products Leverage Hitachi 2TB Disk Drives to Double System Capacity While Reducing Power, Cooling and Data Center Footprint by 50 Percent
SEATTLE, Nov. 17 -- Isilon® Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN) today announced the release of the Isilon IQ 72000X and 72NL scale-out NAS products, bringing to market a 10 Petabyte (PB) single file system and single volume to deliver maximum value and efficiency for primary, nearline archive and disk-to-disk backup environments. Leveraging Hitachi''s enterprise-class Ultrastar A7K2000 two Terabyte (2TB) Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives, the IQ 72000X and 72NL double the density per rack unit while reducing the overall power and cooling costs per TB by 50 percent. Combined with Isilon''s guaranteed system utilization of at least 80 percent, these new products deliver the best dollar per TB ratio of any scale-out NAS solution on the market to provide lowest overall total cost of ownership.
"''Do more with less'' is standard operating procedure in today''s enterprise data center where cost and energy efficiency are paramount to maximizing operating leverage," said Sam Grocott, senior director of product management, Isilon Systems. "However, traditional SAN and NAS make this impossible to achieve as wasted capacity, storage sprawl and rising data center costs are simply unavoidable. With the new 72000X and 72NL, Isilon offers a vastly different approach - get more, pay less and enable business growth."
"Dense drives such as SATA drives represent the best value in enterprise storage (they can be as much as 50 percent less expensive than low-density, high-performance drives on a drive-for-drive basis, and an even better value when measuring cost per Gigabyte (GB), and the more you can use them, the more cost-effective the environment will be." How Efficient is Your Storage Environment, Forrester Research, Inc., October 22, 2009.