Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Isilon Targets Virtual Data Centers

Seattle-based Isilon is ramping up its efforts to reach the virtualized server market, saying this morning that it has recently released two new product bundles, targeted at server virtualization. The bundles, which are only available from the firm's channel partners, bundle together the firm's Isilon 5400 and 12000 nodes with its SnapshotIQ, SmartConnect, and SmartQuotas software. The enterprise IT market has been strongly shifting to virtual data centers and server virtualization, which combines multiple virtual PCs onto a single server. That shift has also been driving associated scale out of storage deployment and interest in products like Isilon's clustered storage products.