Friday, May 15, 2009

Isilon Trumpets Capacity, Scaling

Seattle-based Isilon said this week that it will guarantee its customers that they can reach 3.45 petabytes of storage, and greater than 80 percent storage utilization using its products. The firm claimed that the guarantee will allow customers to scale out their file systems from 10 TB all the way up to 3.45 petabytes, without significant loss in storage capacity. Isilon claims that competitors such as NetApp and EMC are unable to scale out their products to as many petabytes in a single system, and run into capacity utilization issues when doing so. The firm said that its competitors systems can at most handle 16TB of data, and only see utilization rates of 50-60 percent.