Next-Generation EMC Isilon Scale-out NAS Innovation Now Available,
Arming Enterprises to Take Full Advantage of Big Data
HOPKINTON, Mass., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
News Summary:
- The EMC Isilon OneFS 7.0 scale-out NAS operating system is
generally available worldwide this week.
- Customers and partners that participated in product testing for
the EMC Isilon OneFS 7.0 operating system (codenamed "Mavericks")
are praising its scalability, performance and ease of management
for environments experiencing rapid growth of unstructured,
file-based data.
- By combining the unmatched scalability and efficiency of EMC
Isilon storage systems with enhanced data protection, security,
interoperability and performance, OneFS 7.0 extends Isilon's
applicability to a broader range of enterprise applications and
infrastructure environments.
Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced the availability of
OneFS® 7.0, the next-generation EMC®
Isilon® industry-leading scale-out NAS operating system.
OneFS 7.0 drives new levels of scalability, performance, ease of
management and security for the innovative EMC Isilon storage
portfolio. Codenamed "Mavericks" and first unveiled at EMC World
earlier this year, OneFS 7.0 enables enterprises to manage rapidly
growing, unstructured file-based data more effectively, lowering
OPEX and empowering customers to take full advantage of the
significant opportunities presented by Big Data.
Testing of EMC's anticipated OneFS 7.0 returned overwhelmingly
positive feedback from customers and partners alike, measuring
significant gains for enterprise workloads. Users can benefit from
a 25% increase in single file system throughput, which
significantly improves performance for large-scale enterprise
applications; added caching capabilities designed to reduce latency
by 50% for I/O-intensive applications; heightened security for
enterprise compliance; and tighter integration with VMware designed
to leverage VMware's VAAI and VASA APIs to accelerate and simplify
scale-out NAS for virtualization.
Additional security features include compliance with SEC 17a-4
requirements for tamper-proof data protection, roles-based
administration for separate storage and file system access to
prevent unauthorized change to files and the creation of secure,
isolated storage pools with authentication zones.
EMC Isilon OneFS 7.0 is generally available this week.
Customer Quotes:
Ian Patterson, Systems
Consultant, CSR plc
"Our OneFS 7.0 performance testing was impressive. We
experienced close to a 2x improvement in single stream writes,
exactly as advertised. Read speeds are also high, as we are seeing
8Gbps of throughput on 10Gbps network cards. Add these improvements
to the already resilient, scalable and easy-to-manage OneFS file
system, and it's clear why we can now simultaneously power up and
fine tune our storage with EMC Isilon."
Vinicius Viteri, Storage
Administrator, Locaweb
"OneFS 7.0 is designed to reduce NFS latency — a critical
feature for scale-out storage. Additionally, the security features,
such as authentication zones, both simplify management and further
tighten security, enabling us to put the right resources toward
retaining and protecting all of our data. This EMC Isilon release
is fast, smart and simple — exactly what we need to step up our
storage capabilities."
Channel Reseller Quotes:
Olivier Gaumont, Director of
Servers and Storage, Bull
"We consider the release of the OneFS 7.0 operating system to be
a landmark in the evolution of EMC's Isilon storage. Bull is a
partner of choice for organizations in the area of Digital Capital
Management, and OneFS 7.0 opens tremendous opportunities for our
customers to derive more business benefit and to better manage the
rapidly growing unstructured data within their core business
computing environments. Additionally, One FS 7.0 will enable Bull
to accelerate its presence in markets where Isilon already has a
proven track record of excellence such as life sciences, media and
energy."
Bob Olwig, Vice President of
Marketing and Corporate Development, World Wide Technology,
Inc.
"As we develop solutions that help our customers take advantage
of the dynamic shifts happening in today's IT environments, we
favor infrastructure partners that have a vision for where the
industry is headed and the mutual opportunities that exist
there. And with the introduction of OneFS 7.0, EMC has again
proven that they are committed to helping us design and deliver
storage solutions that will help propel our customers' businesses
forward, not just meet their needs of today."
Jamie Shepard, Executive Vice
President, International Computerware, Inc. (ICI)
"At ICI, we recognize the increasingly important role that Big
Data plays in creating meaningful competitive advantage for our
customers. EMC clearly shares that same vision. With the
introduction of its next-gen Isilon operating system — OneFS 7.0 —
EMC has succeeded in simultaneously addressing Big Data challenges
AND the type of file system challenges commonly encountered by
enterprises, allowing ICI to compete and win more frequently
against products from other vendors. We applaud this vision and
look forward to working with EMC to help our customers meet their
most pressing storage challenges."
Technology Partner Quote:
Cheryl Doninger, SAS Senior
Director, Research and Development
"Big Data will continue to grow and put more pressure on
companies to continue to increase performance. Isilon OneFS
will help address this with the simplicity of a shared storage
environment, ease of administration, performance and scalability.
Our customers demand powerful yet easy-to-use tools for managing
shared file systems critical to working with SAS software. With
OneFS 7.0, companies using both SAS and Isilon technology are able
to easily manage Big Data as it continues to get bigger."
Analyst Quote:
Ben Woo, Managing Director,
Neuralitix
"EMC Isilon has always been about scale, and scale is driven by
much more than hardware. OneFS 7.0 brings key capabilities for
performance, scalability and availability in the latest version of
a proven OS—making scale-out NAS even simpler to manage while
catering to storing the biggest of Big Data. EMC has again coupled
power with innovation with this latest EMC Isilon upgrade."
EMC Quote:
Sam Grocott, Vice President
Marketing & Product Management, EMC Isilon
"With the way Big Data is growing, customers can't keep throwing
more hardware and administrators at the problem—they need smart,
scalable software to ensure high performance and availability in
the form of scale-out NAS. The more complex storage becomes, the
simpler management needs to be, which is why we've architected
OneFS 7.0 for easy management of the powerful storage
infrastructure that's under the hood. Overall, the latest version
of OneFS offers the best of both worlds: the ease of a simple
storage solution with the horsepower of EMC Isilon."
About EMC
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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
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