attached storage platform offered by emc corporation for high volume storage backup and archiving of unstructured data . 1 it provides a cluster based storage array based on industry standard hardware and is scalable to 50 petabytes in a single filesystem using its freebsd derived onefs file system . 2 an isilon clustered storage system is composed of three or more nodes . each node is a self contained rack mountable device that contains industry standard hardware including disk drives cpu memory and network interfaces and is integrated with proprietary operating system software called onefs based on freebsd 3 which unifies a cluster of nodes into a single shared resource . 4 5 current isilon hardware platforms include the s series nodes which support high performance process intensive high transaction applications ; the x series nodes which support high throughput and high concurrency application needs ; the nl series nearline storage nodes which support archiving disaster recovery and disk to disk backup needs ; and the hd series nodes which support large scale high density deep archive storage needs as well as disaster recovery and when combined with other nodes an enterprise data lake foundation . isilon also offers a series accelerator nodes which scale cluster performance and data backup processes . 6 contents 1 history 2 technology and architecture 3 awards and recognition 4 references 5 external links history edit isilon systems was a computer hardware and software company founded in 2001 by sujal patel who received his b.s. from university of maryland in 1996 in computer science which is part of the university of maryland college of computer mathematical and natural sciences . 7 it was headquartered in seattle washington . 8 it sold clustered file system hardware and software for digital content and other unstructured data to a variety of industries . 9 isilon systems designed and developed its clustered storage systems specifically to address the needs of storing managing and accessing digital content and other unstructured data . 10 isilon systems received 8.4 million in series a venture funding in 2001 15 million in series b funding in 2002 and 20 million in funding in 2005 . investors in isilon systems have included atlas ventures focus ventures gcv capital lehman brothers madrona venture group and sequoia capital . 10 isilon systems became a publicly traded company on december 16 2006 . by this time isilon was selling its products indirectly through a channel partner program that included over 100 resellers and distributors as well as directly through a field sales force . its customers included nbc universal cedars sinai kelman technologies and kodak among others . 9 poor initial performance of the new public company led to management changes in 2007 that brought back founder sujal patel as ceo . 11 in 2008 details emerged around an internal audit of isilon system s financials that led to a restatement of earnings . 12 just before the company would have announced four profitable quarters in a row the first profitable year in the company s history isilon systems was acquired by emc corporation in november 2010 for 2.25 billion . 13 emc said that with its acquisition of isilon it would be better able to provide storage infrastructure for private and public cloud environments with a focus on so called big data like gene sequencing online streaming and oil and natural gas seismic studies . 14 at the time of acquisition the list of isilon s clients had grown to include sony xm radio lexisnexis facebook myspace adobe and several major movie studios and tv networks . 15 on november 10 2015 emc announced an expansion of its isilon nas portfolio with a scaled down software storage system for remote locations a cloud migration application and high availability upgrades for isilon onefs . the two software additions isilonsd edge and cloudpools will be available alongside the new version of onefs in 2016 . they are part of the vendor s data lakes strategy for storing and managing unstructured data in large repositories . 16 the new offerings will according to one analyst deliver a data lake ready platform to enterprises with high speed data analytics and are aimed at three aspects of the data lake the edge the core and the cloud . 17 technology and architecture edit isilon clustered storage system architecture consists of independent nodes that are all integrated with the onefs operating system software . 18 the systems can be installed in standard data center environments and are accessible to users and applications running windows unix linux and mac operating systems using industry standard file sharing protocols over standard gigabit or 10 gigabit ethernet . nodes within the clustered storage system communicate with each other over a dedicated infiniband local area network . the architecture is designed so that each node has full visibility and write read access to or from a single expandable file system . 9 the current isilon product line consists of s210 performance optimized primary storage nodes ; x210 and x410 throughput performance capacity nodes nl400 nl410 nodes for nearline storage high density hd400 nodes and a100 accelerator nodes . isilon clusters can hold a mix of the various node types . 1 6 data protection is formed using mathematical algorithms instead of using traditional raid 5 . when a file is written it is spread across all nodes using parity calculated by which level you set the whole or parts of the cluster to using a reed solomon error correction coding . 2 isilon provides multi protocol access to files using nfs or smb cifs or ftp . in addition isilon supports hdfs as a protocol allowing hadoop analytics 19 to be performed on files resident on the storage . data can be stored using one protocol and accessed using another protocol . the key building blocks for isilon include the onefs operating system the nas architecture the scale out data lakes and other enterprise features . recent deals between emc and cloudera will allow the cloudera enterprise hadoop kit to be sold directly from emc and its channel partners . the deal is expected to benefit the thousands of emc isilon customers with existing data lakes by providing a base for running analytic processes on their data giving them access to impala cloudera s open source massively parallel processing sql query engine that runs on hadoop . 1 awards and recognition edit emc isilon received the highest overall score among nine companies rated by gartner in its january 2015 critical capabilities for scale out file system storage report . this report also called out isilon s scalable capacity performance easy to deploy clustered storage appliance approach and feature sets . 20 emc was described by gartner in its 2014 magic quadrant for general purpose disk arrays as a leader in the disk storage market because its management team invests heavily in its vision ; is quick to correct mistakes ; and is aggressive . 21 emc isilon was included in computerweekly s 2014 survey of the big six storage array makers scale out nas product ranges . 22 references edit a b c isilon dives into data lake with hd400 . the register . 2015 02 20 . a b isilon what is it . the san geek . 2012 02 01 . freebsd testimonial from isilon systems . freebsd foundation . 2007 12 07 . clustered storage winks at the enterprise . infoworld . 2006 10 12 . plunkett jack w. 2008 plunkett s infotech industry almanac 2008 houston plunkett research ltd. a b emc isilon scale out storage product family pdf . emc corporation . 2015 07 01 . alum of the week sujal patel . computer science university of maryland . university of maryland department of computer science . retrieved 18 april 2016 . isilon systems . sequoia capital . a b c isilon systems inc. form 10 k pdf . 2007 03 15 . a b isilon systems . techcrunch . 2015 09 05 . clustered storage vendor isilon hot swaps ceos . techtarget . 2007 10 24 . isilon fesses up . techtarget . 2008 04 03 . inside the deal how isilon ended up in emc s arms for 2.25 b . boston business journal . 2011 02 25 . emc to buy isilon systems for 2.25 billion . the new york times . 2010 11 15 . emc acquires isilon systems for 2.25 b now the real work begins . xconomy . 2010 11 15 . emc extends isilon nas software to edge cloud . techtarget . 2015 11 10 . emc announces innovations for data lake 2.0 . storagereview.com inc. 2015 11 10 . big data meets big storage an in depth look at isilon s scale out storage solution . arstechnica . 2011 05 13 . an interview with doug cutting founder of hadoop . emc corporation . 2014 04 29 . critical capabilities for scale out file system storage . gartner . 2015 01 27 . magic quadrant for general purpose disk arrays . gartner . 2014 11 20 . scale out nas product survey the big six . computerweekly . 2014 08 01 . external links edit official website v t e emc corporation corporate directors joseph m. tucci products celerra clariion data domain documentum greenplum isilon lenovoemc mozy networker recoverpoint rsa security scaleio symmetrix vce vmware vplex retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title emc isilon & oldid 742907001 categories computer storage companiesdefunct companies based in washington state storage area network companieshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages srpski edit links this page was last modified on 6 october 2016 at 15 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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