Isilon Releases SyncIQ 2.0 Replication Software

SEATTLE, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems (NASDAQ: ISLN) , the leader in clustered storage, today announced a new version of its SyncIQ(TM) data replication software, an asynchronous replication software application designed exclusively for clustered storage, providing data-intensive enterprises with an unparalleled solution for fast and reliable replication over WANs or LANs. SyncIQ 2.0 delivers a number of critical advancements in storage replication, one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the worldwide storage software market, according to IDC's December 2006 Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracking Report. SyncIQ 2.0 ushers in industry leading advancements in the areas of simplicity, scalability, and performance, providing enterprise customers with an ideal solution for disaster recovery, disk-to-disk backup and distributed workflow needs to protect and ensure availability of mission-critical business information.

"Digital content, including unstructured and file-based data, has become center stage within many enterprise organizations," said Sam Grocott, Director of Product Management, Isilon Systems. "These companies require solutions designed to ensure 24x7x365 availability to these critical digital assets -- especially in the event of a disaster. SyncIQ enables businesses to quickly and reliably replicate their large stores of digital content to always-on, disk-based disaster recovery or backup sites and to distributed clusters to maximize the efficiency of Internet delivery and automated workflow."

SyncIQ replication software is the industry's only policy-based file replication system designed exclusively for clustered storage, combining a rich set of policies for creating and scheduling storage replication jobs with innovative bandwidth throttling and cluster utilization capabilities. Replication policies can be set at the cluster, directory or file levels, and replication jobs can be conveniently scheduled or run on-demand -- maximizing network and storage resource efficiency and availability. SyncIQ 2.0 includes scalability enhancements to handle extremely large and complex directory structures containing millions of files, with a convenient "restart" capability that resumes large replication jobs at the point where they left off in the event of an unexpected interruption. Additionally, SyncIQ 2.0 features a new wizard-driven, web-based management console that is fully integrated with the overall Isilon IQ web management system, providing unmatched ease of use and simplicity.

SyncIQ delivers extremely fast replication of millions of files and terabytes of data over the WAN and LAN. SyncIQ is the only replication tool that leverages Isilon's OneFS(R) operating system software and clustered storage architecture, enabling replication jobs to be parallelized and evenly distributed across all sending and all receiving nodes in the Isilon IQ storage clusters. SyncIQ eliminates the inherent performance bottlenecks found in traditional storage replication products which utilize single servers or NAS "heads" to replicate data, enabling SyncIQ 2.0 to achieve performance levels that are orders of magnitude faster than alternative replication approaches.

"Our main center of operation is located in Houston, where hurricane threats and other natural disasters are concerns for our business operations and necessitate unparalleled reliability in protecting and accessing our critical seismic data," said Gary Bailey, Director of IT for Penn Virginia. "Isilon's SyncIQ software application enables us to seamlessly replicate data between Houston and our other center of operation in Kingsport, TN, ensuring our massive stores of valuable business information are secure, protected and accessible immediately, at any time."

Disaster Recovery

Now more than ever, protecting mission-critical business applications has become a necessity. SyncIQ delivers high performance, asynchronous replication of unstructured data to address a broad range of recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO), enabling customers to make an optimal tradeoff between infrastructure cost and potential for data loss in the event of a disaster. SyncIQ supports both LAN and WAN networks to replicate over short or long distances, providing protection from both site-specific and regional disasters.

Disk-to-Disk Backup

Enterprise IT organizations today face increasingly complex backup environments with costly operations, shrinking backup and restore windows and increasing SLA requirements. Backups to tape are traditionally slow and hard to manage as they grow, which is only compounded by the size and rapid rate of growth of digital content and unstructured data. When combined with Isilon IQ clustered storage, SyncIQ delivers a superior disk-to-disk backup and restore solution that delivers unmatched performance and simplicity, enabling IT organizations to reduce backup and restore costs, eliminate complexity and minimize risk.

Online Delivery of Content

As enterprises want to deliver digital content to more people and more geographies faster, having a solution in place that can ensure that the right data is located in the right location is critical to ensure maximum revenue opportunities and to achieve a superior end-user experience. SyncIQ enables businesses to improve bandwidth utilization, minimize costs, and increase speed of end-user access by distributing content across multiple networks, datacenters, and geographic locations.

SyncIQ 2.0 is available immediately and is a free downloadable update for all existing Isilon SyncIQ customers with valid support contracts.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content, enabling enterprises to transform data into information -- and information into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems combines Isilon's OneFS(R) operating system software with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class storage systems. Isilon's clustered storage solutions speed access to critical business information while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of storing it. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com/.

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