Isilon Systems: Isilon To Participate In Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Inaugural Bio-It World Europe

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SEATTLE, Oct 06, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- ISLN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Isilon Systems(Nasdaq: ISLN), the proven leader in scale-out NAS, today announced its participation in Cambridge Healthtech Institute's inaugural Bio-IT World Europein Hannover, Germany, October 6-8, 2009. Leading organizations including the Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard, City of Hope, Complete Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute(JCVI) and the Personal Genome Projectare among institutions using Isilon IQ to drive increased simplicity and productivity in bioinformatics and drug discovery. With Isilon scale-out NAS, life sciences organizations can unify data onto a single, high-performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, simplifying storage management and streamlining data access to speed time-to-results. Additionally, Isilon's unique 'pay-as-you-grow' scaling of performance and capacity enables customers to purchase only the storage they require, while maintaining the flexibility to grow the system as needs change, reducing both capital and operational expenditures.

Isilon is exhibiting in Hall 8, booth number C31at Bio-IT World Europe.

"Isilon continues to drive rapid adoption of its scale-out NAS solutions within the North American life sciences industry, and as we partake in the inaugural Bio-IT World Europe, we are beginning to see that translate to our efforts in Europe," said Mark Stevens, vice president of sales in EMEA, Isilon Systems. "We are pleased to take part in this gathering of some of the life sciences' leading minds and demonstrate the dramatic cost-savings and productivity benefits our solutions deliver."

"We generate enormous amounts of genetic data that must be accessed, analyzed and stored on an around-the-clock basis, making a highly scalable, high-performance and easy to use storage solution critical to our workflow," said Bruce Martin, vice president of software, Complete Genomics. "With Isilon IQ, we have unified our data onto a single, pay-as-you-grow storage repository to support our staggering data growth without requiring a full-time storage administrator."

"As the scope of our research initiatives has expanded, we've experienced a dramatic increase in the amount of genomic data that must be efficiently and reliably accessed, analyzed, and archived," said Eddy Navarro, storage team lead, JCVI. "With Isilon IQ, we have the flexibility to 'pay as we grow,' allowing us to expand our storage only as need dictates, while still maintaining the high performance necessary to advance our research."

As the massive file size and data growth challenges of biomedical research intensify, the limited scalability and performance of traditional NAS and SAN storage continue to create unnecessary barriers to data access and analysis. However, by deploying Isilon IQ, with its OneFS operating system software, researchers can unify their biomedical data into a single, high-performance, highly scalable shared pool of data capable of delivering up to five petabytes of capacity and 45 Gigabytes per second of performance from a single file system. With Isilon scale-out NAS, scientists can manage one hundred terabytes as easily as one thousand, simplifying storage management, while maintaining the performance and scalability necessary to accelerate mission-critical data analysis.

"While many life sciences organizations employ some of the most innovative and brilliant scientists, they often have limited IT resources available for managing the lifeblood of their research - their data," said Chris Blessington, senior director of marketing and communications, Isilon Systems. "However, Isilon's simplicity, scalability and performance minimizes storage management and maximizes data access, enabling these same organizations to remain focused on their work - and not on their storage systems."

About Isilon Systems

Isilon Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is the proven leader in scale-out NAS. Isilon's clustered storage and data management solutions drive unique business value for customers by maximizing the performance of their mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon enables enterprises and research organizations worldwide to manage large and rapidly growing amounts of file-based data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective way. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com.

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