EMC Readies Isilon Scale-Out NAS Innovation, Arming Enterprise IT to Meet Big Data Challenges
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Next Generation of EMC Isilon's OneFS Scale-Out NAS Operating System Will Blend Industry-Leading Scalability and Simplicity with Enterprise-Grade Data Protection, Security, Interoperability and Performance
LAS VEGAS - EMC WORLD 2012 -
- EMC® unveils plans for the next generation of EMC Isilon® OneFS®
scale-out NAS operating system, code named "Mavericks," which will
enable enterprises to manage rapidly growing unstructured data more
effectively, thereby accelerating their businesses.
- The unveiling of Mavericks continues Isilon's scale-out NAS market
momentum and further extends the unmatched scalability and efficiency of
OneFS across a broader range of enterprise applications and IT
infrastructure environments.
- Innovations include:
- Enhanced integration with VMware by leveraging VMware's VAAI and
VASA APIs to accelerate and simplify scale-out NAS for
virtualization.
- A 25% increase to Isilon's already industry-leading single file
system throughput, significantly improving performance for
large-scale enterprise applications.
- Dramatically improved caching capability to reduce average latency
by 50% for I/O intensive applications.
- New data protection and security features that deliver increased
availability and help enterprises meet stringent regulatory
compliance requirements.
- Accelerated disaster recovery and business continuity at scale with
integrated, push-button failover and failback capabilities.
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Today at EMC World, EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) announced that it is readying the next version of its industry-leading EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system, code named "Mavericks." File-based, unstructured data represents the fastest-growing component of today's enterprise data centers. To better support customers as they address the associated issues, this upcoming version of OneFS will incorporate new levels of data protection, security, system performance and interoperability. "Mavericks" is being designed to enable enterprises to extend the unmatched scalability and efficiency of EMC Isilon storage systems to a broader range of enterprise applications and infrastructure environments.
Isilon scale-out NAS solutions have long set the standard for addressing the challenges of managing large, rapidly growing file-based and unstructured data environments for organizations in data-intensive industries including media and entertainment, life sciences and energy exploration. "Mavericks" is designed to extend those advantages to mainstream enterprises now contending with the challenges of managing their own rapidly growing unstructured data across large-scale home directories, files shares, archives, virtualization and business analytics. In addition to Isilon's proven ability to provide massively scalable, highly efficient storage that is simple to manage, "Mavericks" will incorporate new data protection and security tools and increased levels of performance and interoperability that enterprises can use to gain a further competitive edge while meeting essential large-scale corporate IT requirements.
New Enterprise Customer Benefits:
- Improved Security - "Mavericks" will bring important enterprise
enhancements for regulatory compliance, ensuring absolute retention and
protection of business critical data--including the most stringent SEC
17a-4 requirements. Roles-based administration with "Mavericks" will
create a strict separation between storage administration and file
system access, improving security by preventing malicious or accidental
change. Authentication zones will enable the creation of secure,
isolated storage pools that allow IT departments to consolidate for
increased operating efficiency without compromising organizational
security.
- Increased Availability - "Mavericks," with the industry's only scale-out
enterprise replication technology, will simplify and accelerate disaster
recovery and business continuity at scale with integrated, push-button
failover and failback capabilities, reducing both RPO and RTO for
mission critical applications. "Mavericks" will also provide
near-immediate restoration of snapshot backups to recover critical files
in the event of error or attack.
- Accelerated Performance - To support more demanding applications and
workloads across the enterprise, EMC Isilon, the world's fastest NAS
platform, will deliver more than 100 gigabytes per second of system
throughput and remains the world-record holder with 1.6 million
SpecSFS2008 CIFS operations per second. "Mavericks" will increase
overall throughput by 25%, significantly improving performance for
large-scale enterprise applications. In addition, Isilon will provide a
dramatically improved caching capability to reduce average latency by
50% for I/O intensive applications.
- Greater Interoperability - With OneFS "Mavericks," Isilon will enhance
integration with VMware by leveraging VMware's VAAI and VASA APIs to
accelerate and simplify Scale-Out NAS for virtualization. "Mavericks"
will also incorporate a new Platform API to provide third-party ISVs and
enterprise IT with a more robust automation and control interface to
OneFS. These new levels of interoperability enable enterprises to
leverage their large data assets with more flexibility, with a broader
range of applications and workloads, and across a more diverse IT
infrastructure environment.
Analyst Quotes
Benjamin Woo, Program Vice President, Worldwide Storage System, IDC
"A major factor that sets Isilon apart in this era of Big Data is its interoperability with a wide array of applications delivered through a range of industry standard protocols. Isilon recently enhanced this capability to include native integration with Hadoop. With OneFS 'Mavericks,' Isilon is again raising the bar on interoperability with enhanced integration with VMware and a new platform API that provides additional options to enterprises to integrate and manage Isilon storage systems with third-party applications. With its expanded security features, including SEC 17a-4 compliance, OneFS 'Mavericks' is addressing another vital need of enterprise customers. Innovations like these strongly position Isilon scale-out NAS to help enterprises successfully address the challenges of Big Data."
Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, ESG
"The two worlds of Big Data and enterprise IT are converging, creating new opportunities for enterprises to develop new products and services and accelerate the growth of their businesses. To achieve this, enterprises need a highly scalable infrastructure that provides both the capacity and performance to keep pace with ever-growing business demands. EMC Isilon pioneered the delivery of scale-out NAS to address these needs. With OneFS 'Mavericks,' Isilon is building on that leadership by providing increased levels of data protection and performance to meet the still emerging business requirements in this new world of Big Data in the enterprise."
EMC Executive Quotes:
Sujal Patel, Co-founder and President, EMC Isilon
"Big Data has penetrated the enterprise and brought with it enormous opportunities to transform business. It also has introduced challenges, often times eroding operational efficiency and threatening data security and the performance of business processes. Isilon's scale-out NAS is the clear choice for enterprise customers looking to protect, share and manage sensitive data as they scale to petabytes. Increasingly, enterprises will need to consider scale-out storage for its ability to simplify management and accelerate access to their storage in the pursuit of new opportunities."
Availability
EMC Isilon OneFS "Mavericks" will be available for customers later this year.
About Isilon
Isilon, a division of EMC, is the global leader in scale-out NAS. We deliver powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to manage their data, not their storage. Isilon's products are simple to install, manage and scale, at any size. And, unlike traditional enterprise storage, Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future. We're challenging enterprises to think differently about their storage, because when they do, they'll recognize there's a better, simpler way. Learn what we mean at www.isilon.com.
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset -- information -- in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
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