NAS Storage

Datapipe uses Isilon scale-out NAS clusters to power file-based applications, enabling more effective resource management and improved customer response times.

Isilon Enterprise NAS

OneFS® is Isilon's fifth-generation operating system software that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon® Scale-out NAS systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume manager and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. In addition to enabling industryleading scalability of performance and capacity, OneFS combines mission-critical reliability and high availability with state-of-the-art data protection to help storage administrators do more with less.

OneFS Combines Three Traditional Storage Layers Into One

Isilon OneFS enables independent or linear scalability of performance and capacity to over 45 Gigabytes per second of throughput and more than 5.2 petabytes of capacity in a single file system. OneFS also provides a single point of management for large and rapidly growing repositories of file-based data and offers faster access to large files and inherent high availability.

Unlike simple NAS namespace aggregation products, Isilon's OneFS operating system is truly distributed and intelligently stripes data across all nodes in a cluster to create a single, shared pool of storage. With advanced features such as FlexProtect™, OneFS offers unsurpassed mission-critical reliability and industry-leading drive rebuild times. Failed drives can be rebuilt in less than an hour which is faster than more costly Fibre Channel disks and up to 24 times faster than other enterprise storage systems using Serial ATA (SATA).

The release of OneFS also delivers unique cluster-aware symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities that enable the system to move tasks between processors for extremely efficient workload balancing. In conjunction with OneFS’ ability to stripe data across all nodes in a cluster, Isilon achieves the high aggregate bandwidth and transactional performance required to power next generation enterprise data centers.