Isilon Systems, Inc. announced that the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) has deployed Isilon IQ as the primary repository for its entire next-generation genome sequencing and analysis workflow. Using Isilon scale-out NAS, OMRF has unified both its DNA sequencing pipeline and virtualized computing infrastructure onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, simplifying its IT environment and speeding time-to-results. With Isilon IQ, OMRF can scale its storage system on-demand to meet the rapid data growth and unique performance demands of its mission-critical workflow, increasing operational efficiency and decreasing costs in an effort to identify genetic precursors to diseases such as Alzheimer's, Lupus and Sjogren's Syndrome.

Isilon Systems Inc. announced the release of the Isilon IQ 72000X and 72NL scale-out NAS products, bringing to market a 10 Petabyte (PB) single file system and single volume to deliver maximum value and efficiency for primary, nearline archive and disk-to-disk backup environments. Leveraging Hitachi's enterprise-class Ultrastar A7K2000 two Terabyte (2TB) Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives, the IQ 72000X and 72NL double the density per rack unit while reducing the overall power and cooling costs per TB by 50%. Combined with Isilon's guaranteed system utilization of at least 80%, these new products deliver the best dollar per TB ratio of any scale-out NAS solution on the market to provide lowest overall total cost of ownership. The Isilon IQ 72000X is the latest addition to Isilon's X-Series, delivering more than 10 PB of capacity and over 40 Gigabytes per second (GBps) of aggregate throughput from a single file system. Leveraging Isilon's OneFS® operating system and Hitachi's 2TB SATA drives, the 72000X allows businesses to linearly scale capacity and performance on-demand as data grows, minimizing capital and operational expenditures while driving greater IT agility. As with all Isilon IQ products, the 72000X delivers a single point of management for the entire system, providing unmatched management simplicity to reduce IT costs and staff requirements. Both the Isilon IQ 72000X and 72NL are currently available in limited quantities and will be generally available in January 2010.

Isilon® Systems announced that LiveOffice, has deployed Isilon IQ to reduce storage infrastructure costs-including initial system purchase costs and operational expenditures on management, power and cooling-by 75%. Using Isilon scale-out NAS, LiveOffice has unified massive email archives onto a single, high-performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage to reduce capital and operational expenditures, while increasing workflow efficiency. Isilon IQ, featuring its OneFS® operating system, delivers utilization of more than 80% and linear scaling of performance and capacity, enabling LiveOffice to purchase only the minimum capacity necessary up front, while maintaining the flexibility to grow the system on-demand as needs evolve.