Fully Symmetric, Modular System

Isilon's clustered storage architecture was designed and developed to specifically address the needs of storing, managing and accessing file-based data and other digital content. The Isilon IQ X-Series line of clustered storage products enable businesses to create a single, shared pool of storage that can modularly scale to more than 2.3 petabytes of capacity and deliver data throughput of up to 20 GB/second, achieving the type of industry-leading capacity and performance required by next generation enterprise data centers.

Linear Scaling of Capacity and Performance
Each modular, self-contained Isilon IQ platform node contains disk capacity along with a powerful storage server, CPU, memory and network connectivity. As additional Isilon IQ platform nodes are added to a cluster, all aspects of the cluster scale linearly, including capacity, throughput, memory and CPU processing power. Isilon IQ nodes automatically work together, harnessing their collective power into a single unified storage system.

Isilon IQ 1920, 3000, 6000, 9000 and 12000 platform nodes deliver the unparalleled ability to add storage capacity, performance or both in less than 60 seconds without downtime or application changes. Newly added nodes joining a cluster automatically inherit existing policies and configuration settings and Isilon's AutoBalance feature automatically stripes data across the newly expanded cluster, eliminating the downtime traditional storage systems require when adding capacity.

Comparison of Isilon IQ models (minimum cluster configuration is 3 nodes).