EMC ISILON HARDWARE PLATFORM Three flexible product lines that can be combined in a single file system tailored to specific business needs. S-SERIES Purpose-built for highly transactional & IOPSintensive applications X-SERIES A flexible solution to accelerate high-concurrent and sequential throughput applications NL-SERIES Purpose-build for cost-effective, large capacity storage Performance Accelerator Increase IOPS, throughput and performance Backup Accelerator Integrates easily with Isilon cluster and scales backup performance to fit within required backup window KEY FEATURES: Massive Scalability - Built for Big Data 20 petabytes in single file system Independent performance & capacity scaling 60 Seconds scaling without disruption Unmatched Failure Protection up to N+4 Unmatched Simplicity & Ease of Use One pool of storage for all Big Data Multi-tier architecture (S/X/NL-series nodes) Automatic & transparent data migration Consolidate all file-based workflows Performance 400 MB/s single-stream performance 100 GB/s aggregated throughput File System Optimized for high performance / high capacity workloads TCO & Investment Protection >80% Storage Utilization Pay-as-you-grow, Just-in-time Scale Reduced OpEx via Automation & Simplicity Reduced CapEx via Utilization
EMC ISILON IS LOOKING FOR THREE BASIC THINGS 1. Do they have file data? (Yes) 2. How much file data? (>18 TB) 3. How fast is file data growing? (>20% per yr) SALES DISCOVERY QUESTIONS Can you tell me how much data is stored by your organization? Which departments, business units or areas of business generate this data? What specific applications or workflows are creating data within your organization? What drivers or trends are causing data storage growth? Can you tell me about the type of data within your organisation? Is it database content, finance data, larger documents such as Adobe PDF or PowerPoint presentations, analytical data or multimedia content such as audio, video or images? How quickly is your file data growing year on year? (>20% per year) Are certain departments or business units experiencing faster growth? Are there specific applications or workflows that need more storage capacity or performance? For example file shares, High Performance Computing (HPC), home directories, web data, log files, media asset repositories, archive or even bespoke application workflows. How much nearline and archive storage do you have? How is this data stored and how fast is it growing? Across all your data do you know how much is being stored as file data versus block data? (They may or may not know although block is normally database versus file which is typically unstructured data such as documents, presentations, CAD or multimedia files). Are you experiencing challenges in scaling your storage environment? These challenges may include hot spots, underutilized resources, complex tiering, complex management, data migration issues or poor workload distribution. How much of your data is sitting on NAS, SAN or DAS storage systems? NAS: How many NAS systems and filers do have? = how much file storage? Note: they may use the terms CIFS / SMB and NFS this implies files! SAN: How many SAN storage or RAID arrays do you have? = How much block storage? Note: they may use the terms iscsi or Fibre Channel (FC) this implies block storage Do you know of any planned storage projects? Are these projects related to a particular business initiative or driver? www.emc.com/isilon
BIG DATA IT S ON ISILON ISILON SCALE OUT NAS QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE SIMPLE SCALABLE EFFICIENT www.emc.com/isilon
WHAT IS ISILON? Isilon delivers powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to manage their data, not their storage. Isilon 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. WHY ISILON? Largest and most rapidly growing Scale-out NAS business Scale-out NAS market leader with over 3500+ customers Now installed at 22 of the 30 companies within the Dow Jones index Won the single largest storage deal in history 28 petabytes of storage at a leading Web 2.0 company The fastest file server in the industry 1.6 million SPECsfs2008 file operations per second Lower CAPEX through Scale on need Low entry level cost - simple, fast grow-as-you-do scalability and avoid over provisioning Over 80% storage utilization Lower OPEX through automation & simplicity Simplified & automated management through a single file system and single volume Fast setup time and add capacity / performance within 60 seconds Availability and data protection Enterprise data backup, recover, and security options Up to N+4 protection to provide 100% data availability Roles-based administration; Authentication Zones; SEC 17a-4 compliant WORM data security Performance Over 100 GB/s throughput, over 400 MB/s single-stream performance and 1.6M SPECsfs ops Overhead decreases when cluster grows Operational flexibility Integrated support for industry-standard protocols including NFS, SMB, HTTP, FTP and HDFS; platform REST API; VMware integration www.emc.com/isilon
TOP 5 REASONS FOR ISILON SCALE OUT NAS 1. SIMPLICITY Organizations need a storage system that is simple to buy, build, maintain and grow. Isilon s easy-to-manage Scale-out NAS significantly reduces your TCO. One person can now manage petabytes of data, minimizing operating expenditures and keeping your staff focused on managing their data not their storage. 2. SCALABILITY Isilon Scale-out NAS solutions enable you to non-disruptively scale performance and capacity in the right combination, depending on the usage access pattern or content type of your business. Isilon storage can add capacity up to 20 petabytes and performance exceeding 1.6 million CIFS IOPS and 1.1 million NFS IOPS with over 100 gigabytes per second of aggregate throughput, all from a single file system. 3. EFFICIENCY Isilon solutions significantly accelerate the productivity of mission-critical applications, workflows and processes to help speed time to market and enable organizations to pursue new opportunities. Isilon s industry-leading solutions deliver greater than 80% storage utilization for your mission critical applications. By taking advantage of our industry-leading ease-of-use and unique pay-as-yougrow model, you can reduce operational costs and match the timing of capital expenditures directly with the growth of your data. 4. AVAILABILITY Isilon offers the industry s highest level of end-to-end data protection. By offering up to quadruple failure protection, Isilon ensures that even if up to 4 nodes containing multiple drives simultaneously fail, 100% of your data is still available. Automatic replication of data to remote sites can be performed without impact on other network resources. 5. ISILON ENABLES SUCCESS Isilon is committed to removing the barriers that exist between businesses and their data. That s why we ve designed our Scale-out storage platform to serve as a powerful yet simple foundation for effective data and application management. While storage by itself cannot drive a business forward, the right storage can reduce cost and complexity in ways that fuels innovation, sustains growth and delivers competitive advantage.
WHEN TO TARGET EMC ISILON SCALE OUT NAS OPPORTUNITIES LARGE FILE SYSTEMS >18 TB SCALE-OUT Multiple workflows on a single scalable file system STORAGE TYPE File (NAS) VERTICAL APPLICATIONS Enterprise IT at Scale Healthcare and Hospitals Media and Entertainment Internet Life Sciences High-tech engineering and modeling Content Service Providers Oil and Gas Government Higher Education Analytics Primary or secondary storage consolidation for large-scale enterprise IT Workflows and NAS storage islands. For example: home directories, archive, file services, private and public clouds, test and development, VMware over NFS, logfile repositories and other areas Picture Archiving and Communication system (PACS), STS, Long Term Archive, Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), research, studies, general IT, security, pathology, EEG, gene sequencing and other areas Content creation, editing, rendering and special effects, content delivery, nearline media archives, Digital and Media Asset Management (DAM / MAM), Video On Demand (VOD) Content storage, management and delivery Gene sequencing, drug discovery, research and testing, data correlation within clinical trials IC / Chip Design, software development, CAD / CAM simulation, environmental modelling, fluid dynamics and other related areas Video On Demand (VOD), Cable and satellite on-demand content, Content Distribution Networks (CDN) Seismic data processing and interpretation, archive and related areas Media, Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Image and video surveillance repositories (Department of Defence / Military / Security Agencies) Digital Libraries, Home Directories, Media Departments Native Hadoop (HDFS) support, distributed apps, structured and unstructured analytics