Isilon Systems and Storwize have entered into a partnership to deliver an integrated primary storage system based upon Isilon’s scale-out NAS products and the Storwize STN-6000 capacity optimisation appliance.
The company said that the combination of Isilon IQ, featuring utilisation rates of more than 80% and the Storwize STN-6000 capacity optimisation system, which increases usable storage capacity up to 10 times, provides customers with usable capacity per raw terabyte (TB) to help simplifying management, lowering cost/TB and reducing power, cooling and floor space requirements. Less data is physically written to primary disk as data reduction is performed in real-time at the point of origin.
In addition, by reducing file sizes when data is written to disk, data reduction savings cascade throughout the entire data lifecycle as only the compressed files are migrated, replicated, archived, deduplicated and backed up.
Peter Smails, senior vice president of marketing at Storwize, said: Storage budgets and capacity requirements are at odds as budgets continue to decrease, while file-based data growth only accelerates, creating a significant challenge in the enterprise data centre. The only solution is to do more with less, and by combining Isilon’s leading scale-out NAS with our real-time data compression, enterprise businesses can do just that – optimise the capacity of primary storage to reduce costs and increase return on investment.
