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Top Five Reasons to Choose Isilon’s Scale-out NAS Solutions

Isilon scale-out storage solutions enable customers across a variety of industries to dramatically increase the productivity of mission critical applications, workflows, and processes accelerating business through faster time-to-money and new revenue opportunities.

Isilon Systems SmartLock

SmartLock™ adds a layer of protection which guards your critical data against accidental, premature or malicious alteration or deletion. Because SmartLock is a software-based approach to Write Once Read Many (WORM) solution, you can store SmartLock-protected data alongside other data types with no effect on performance or availability, and without the added cost of purchasing and maintaining specialty WORM-capable hardware. 

Isilon Systems SmartPools

SmartPools enables you to deploy a single file system, single volume for multiple price/performance tiers with unparalleled simplicity of management, operation, and interoperability.

Isilon Systems SyncIQ Replication Software

All businesses want to protect themselves against unplanned outages and data loss. The best practice in this area is typically to create and keep copies of important data so it can always be recovered. There are many approaches to creating and maintaining data copies. The right approach depends on the criticality of the data to the business, and its timeliness how long the business can afford to be without it.

Isilon Scale-out Storage Solutions for Media and Entertainment

Media organizations have significant performance needs from supporting ingest and editing stations, to rendering images for high-resolution 3D animation, to compositing 2D images from multiple layers, or running a color correction job on thousands of DPX files. The move from SD to HD has also resulted in a 10-fold increase in capacity and performance requirements.