Isilon Systems Announces Certification with BakBone for Automated Backup and Restore
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First Clustered Storage System to Provide Integration with BakBone for Cross-platform Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
SEATTLE, July 9 / -- Isilon® Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN), the leader in clustered storage, today announced that Isilon IQ is the industry's first clustered storage system to receive certification of interoperability with NetVault®: Backup from BakBone Software. Isilon Systems can now provide customers with a reliable storage solution that integrates with BakBone's enterprise-class data protection software and scales to meet the demands of the large and rapidly growing stores of digital content and other unstructured data proliferating in the enterprise. This certified integration enables companies to improve their data protection operations and tap into their critical information to accelerate businesses and realize breakthroughs.
Isilon's clustered storage systems have been tested with BakBone's NetVault: Backup data protection solution and together, the technologies enable customers to rapidly deploy, manage and secure mission-critical storage environments. Targeted for the network data management protocol (NDMP), the solution provides automated integration and backup of unstructured data and digital content with a seamless interface to manage data between the online environment and the archived storage library, ensuring quick accessibility and retrieval by users throughout the enterprise.
"We are pleased to partner with Isilon to provide joint customers with BakBone's award-winning, heterogeneous data protection solution," said Jeff Drescher, Director of Product Management, BakBone. "Our NetVault: Backup software proved to be a strong fit for Isilon's clustered storage systems, and will provide customers with a complete solution to proactively manage the many different types of unstructured data in their enterprise environments, ultimately ensuring data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity."
"The unique flexibility and unlimited scalability of BakBone's NetVault: Backup software makes it an ideal solution for Isilon IQ's modular, pay-as-you-grow clustered storage systems," said Sam Grocott, Senior Director of Product Management, Isilon Systems. "Enterprises are experiencing an explosion of data growth, and it is essential that they have both a reliable solution for storing and protecting that business-critical data. Now that Isilon IQ clustered storage systems are fully certified with BakBone's NetVault: Backup software, customers will have an additional choice for scalable archive and data protection systems, ensuring they can utilize their data to advance their businesses."
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), SyncIQ®, and MigrationIQ(TM) 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 and unstructured data, 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/.
Source: Isilon Systems
CONTACT:
Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems,
+1-206-315-7621,
lucas.welch@isilon.com
Web site: http://www.isilon.com/
