If it's true that information is the lifeblood of business, then it's also true that the corporate data center has become the heart of the enterprise. As data centers have grown in complexity, scale and business importance, their efficacy has been severely challenged by an unprecedented avalanche of data in the form of digital content, unstructured data and other critical business information. While recent advancements in Compute Power and Network Speeds have allowed for significant and important architectural shifts, the final traditional data center component, NAS and SAN Storage, has become the last bottleneck, stalling the full maturation of the centralized data center to its next and necessary evolutionary state.

That was then and this is now…

With the introduction of its X-Series clustered storage platform, Isilon has broken the storage bottleneck, enabling enterprises to speed the entire data center value chain and achieve unprecedented levels of innovation and business agility. Isilon's X-Series clustered storage systems deliver the industry's first and only storage system to scale to greater than 1.6 Petabytes of capacity and provide performance of 10 Gigabytes per second in a single file system and single volume - achieving 100X the scalability and 20X the performance of traditional NAS and SAN storage systems.

Underpinning Isilon's leadership, focus and innovations in clustered storage is a belief that storage should not be a problem, but an opportunity to propel critical enterprise information back into the bloodstream of business, enabling enterprises to gain new insights, transform information into business breakthroughs and create IT operating leverage, all while dramatically reducing cost and complexity - truly realizing the potential of the next generation data center.