Isilon Named Best of Show at Bio-IT World 2007
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Editors of Leading Life Sciences Publication Select Isilon IQ for Exceptional Technology Innovation
SEATTLE, May 3 -- Isilon(R) Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN), the leader in clustered storage, today announced that Isilon IQ was named "Best of Show" at Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in the event's Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure category. The Bio-IT World "Best of Show" Awards, selected by Bio-IT World magazine editors and leading industry experts, spotlight new products that demonstrate exceptional technology innovation across the life sciences research, discovery, and clinical trials process.
"Selected by prominent judges with years of experience in the bio-science fields, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo's Best of Show Awards winners consist of products within IT, informatics and life science technologies that demonstrate innovation and leadership in their respective markets," said John Russell, executive editor, Bio-IT World. "These awards recognize the products that are fueling tomorrow's discoveries."
"As life sciences and drug discovery move out of the Petri dish and into the datacenter, innovations in information technology are dramatically accelerating the discovery process and enabling scientific breakthroughs on an unprecedented scale," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. "In this era of research and discovery, data literally serves as the lifeblood of scientific advancement and Isilon's clustered storage solutions enable leading life science organizations to transform this data into breakthroughs."
Life sciences leaders like Cedars-Sinai Prostate Cancer Center, UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) and the Austin Radiological Association are using Isilon IQ clustered storage to create breakthroughs in prostate cancer research, neuro imaging and breast cancer research, respectively. Specifically, Cedars-Sinai is using Isilon IQ as a centralized, highly reliable, easily managed and highly scalable storage architecture to support its leading-edge cancer research initiatives. Meanwhile, UCLA LONI deployed Isilon to store the world's largest repository of high resolution neuro imaging data. Finally, Austin Radiological Association selected Isilon IQ to serve as the foundation of a PACS (Picture Archiving Communications System) designed to detect and combat breast cancer, which will soon contain more than 80,000 diagnostic images, each reaching sizes in excess of 100 MB.
For more information on the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo and the "Best of Show" Awards, visit www.Bio-ITWorldExpo.com.
Powered by OneFS®, Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly growing stores of digital content and unstructured data, eliminating the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures. OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon's award-winning IQ family of clustered storage systems including the Isilon IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, Accelerator, and EX 6000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications including SnapshotIQ(TM), SmartConnect(TM), MigrationIQ(TM) and SyncIQ® that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data management.
About Isilon Systems
Isilon Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content, enabling enterprises to transform data into information - and information into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems combines Isilon's OneFS operating system software with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class storage systems. Isilon's clustered storage solutions speed access to critical business information while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of storing it. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com/.
About Bio-IT World
Bio-IT World publishes critical information across a variety of media to meet the needs of bio-IT professionals. Coverage focuses on the range of tools and techniques, both computational and experimental, that increase the efficiency and success of drug discovery, development, and clinical trials.
Bio-IT World and accompanying website, www.Bio-ITWorld.com, as well as content-specific e-newsletters (eCliniqua, Weekly Update, and Systems Biology) impact over a hundred thousand life science professionals every month. Established in September 2001, Bio-IT World has received more than 34 awards for editorial and design excellence.
About Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) is the industry leader offering the preeminent source of information to the leading researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech and academic organizations. Delivering an assortment of resources such as events, reports, publications and e-newsletters, CHI portfolio of products includes Cambridge Healthtech Institute Events, Pharmaceutical Strategy Series, Insight Pharma Reports, Marketing Services, Bio-IT World Magazine and Cambridge Healthtech Institute Media Group, which delivers numerous research area specific e-newsletters.
Founded in 1992, Cambridge Healthtech Institute strives to develop quality information sources that provide valuable new insights and competing points of view while offering balanced coverage of the latest developments. Basic research related to commercial implications is covered, with heavy emphasis placed on end-user insights into new products and technology as well as coverage on the strategy behind the business. (www.chicorporate.com)
Source: Isilon Systems
CONTACT: Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621, lucas.welch@isilon.com
Web site: http://www.isilon.com/
