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Isilon Enterprise Application Bundle includes SmartPools, InsightIQ, SnapshotIQ, SmartConnect, SmartQuotas and SyncIQ.
With the ability to support an unlimited number of snapshots within a single pool of Isilon storage and up to 1,024 snapshots within any single directory, SnapshotIQ represents a significant advancement over traditional snapshot technology. With SnapShotIQ, snapshots are locally retained, read-only and incorruptible point-in-time images of data that reliably distribute an unlimited number of snapshots across Isilon storage nodes. Isilon snapshots are highly scalable and typically take less than one second to create, incurring little to no performance overhead - regardless of the size of the file system, the directory being snapshot, or the level of production activity on the cluster.
InsightIQ helps you maximize the performance of your Isilon scale-out storage system with innovative, advanced analytics to optimize applications, correlate workflow and network events, and accurately forecast future storage needs. With Isilon you can easily manage PBs and GBps of storage and computing resources. Now, with InsightIQ you can go a step a beyond, with innovative, advanced analytics to identify performance bottlenecks in your workflows and minimize the amount of high performance storage required in your environment. Built on a Web 2.0 framework, InsightIQ is deployed as a virtual appliance, minimizing the impact of monitoring with an off-cluster virtual application that seamlessly integrates into enterprise environments.
SmartQuotas allows administrators to control and limit storage usage across their organization and provision a single pool of Isilon scale-out storage to best meet their unique storage challenges. Using SmartQuotas, storage administrators assign quotas that seamlessly partition a highly scalable, single, shared pool of storage into easily managed segments, with industry-leading flexibility for quotas at the cluster, directory, sub-directory, user and group level. SmartQuotas spans across the entire cluster, regardless of the number of nodes, enabling IT managers to easily administer storage from a single point of view while supporting growing storage demands. SmartQuotas' thin provisioning capability allows administrators to present more storage capacity to applications and users than is physically installed. Administrators can limit their actual physical storage resources to what is only needed today, and automatically add storage resources on-demand to meet changing business requirements tomorrow.
EMC Isilon SyncIQ offers powerful, flexible and easy to manage replication of data for disaster recovery, business continuance, and disk-to-disk backup and remote disk archive. SyncIQ delivers unique replication performance: every node in an Isilon cluster can send and receive data, so replication actually gets faster the larger your data store grows, since SyncIQ can take advantage of any available network bandwidth. Because both the source and the target can scale to multiple petabytes without fragmentation into multiple volumes or file systems, data replication starts simple and stays that way as the system scales. A simple and intuitive web-based UI allows you to easily organize SyncIQ replication job rates and priorities to match business continuance priorities. Typically, a SyncIQ recurring job would be put in place to protect the data required for each major recovery point objective in your disaster recovery plan - sync every 6 hours for customer data, every 2 days for HR data, and so on. You can configure a directory, file system or even specific files for more or less frequent replication based on their business criticality. You can also create remote archive copies of out-of-use data that needs to be retained so you can reclaim valuable capacity in your production system.
The EMC Isilon scale-out storage platform gives you the power to scale capacity and performance, on-demand, transparently and without downtime. Now, you can right-size and accelerate your working set while automatically and transparently moving inactive data to more cost-effective storage using EMC SmartPools. SmartPools allows multiple tiers of Isilon storage nodes to exist within a single file system, and unlocks the ability to aggregate and consolidate applications. That gives you workflow isolation, higher utilization, and independent scalability - all with a single point of management. SmartPools allows you to define the value of the data within your workflows based on policies. Data movement is absolutely seamless - including in-flight read/write activity, locking semantics, backup application interaction and underlying file identification. With file-level granularity and control with automatic policies, manual control, or API interface, you can tune performance and layout, storage tier alignment, and protection settings - all with zero impact to your end-users.
With intelligent client connection load balancing and failover support, SmartConnect optimizes Isilon scale-out storage performance and availability. Through a single host name, SmartConnect enables client connection load balancing and dynamic NFS failover and failback of client connections across storage nodes to provide optimal utilization of the cluster resources. SmartConnect eliminates the need to install client side drivers, enabling you to easily manage large numbers of clients with confidence that in the event of a system failure, in flight reads and writes will successfully finish without failing.
With the ability to support an unlimited number of snapshots within a single pool of Isilon storage and up to 1,024 snapshots within any single directory, SnapshotIQ represents a significant advancement over traditional snapshot technology. With SnapShotIQ, snapshots are locally retained, read-only and incorruptible point-in-time images of data that reliably distribute an unlimited number of snapshots across Isilon storage nodes. Isilon snapshots are highly scalable and typically take less than one second to create, incurring little to no performance overhead - regardless of the size of the file system, the directory being snapshot, or the level of production activity on the cluster.
InsightIQ helps you maximize the performance of your Isilon scale-out storage system with innovative, advanced analytics to optimize applications, correlate workflow and network events, and accurately forecast future storage needs. With Isilon you can easily manage PBs and GBps of storage and computing resources. Now, with InsightIQ you can go a step a beyond, with innovative, advanced analytics to identify performance bottlenecks in your workflows and minimize the amount of high performance storage required in your environment. Built on a Web 2.0 framework, InsightIQ is deployed as a virtual appliance, minimizing the impact of monitoring with an off-cluster virtual application that seamlessly integrates into enterprise environments.
SmartQuotas allows administrators to control and limit storage usage across their organization and provision a single pool of Isilon scale-out storage to best meet their unique storage challenges. Using SmartQuotas, storage administrators assign quotas that seamlessly partition a highly scalable, single, shared pool of storage into easily managed segments, with industry-leading flexibility for quotas at the cluster, directory, sub-directory, user and group level. SmartQuotas spans across the entire cluster, regardless of the number of nodes, enabling IT managers to easily administer storage from a single point of view while supporting growing storage demands. SmartQuotas' thin provisioning capability allows administrators to present more storage capacity to applications and users than is physically installed. Administrators can limit their actual physical storage resources to what is only needed today, and automatically add storage resources on-demand to meet changing business requirements tomorrow.
EMC Isilon SyncIQ offers powerful, flexible and easy to manage replication of data for disaster recovery, business continuance, and disk-to-disk backup and remote disk archive. SyncIQ delivers unique replication performance: every node in an Isilon cluster can send and receive data, so replication actually gets faster the larger your data store grows, since SyncIQ can take advantage of any available network bandwidth. Because both the source and the target can scale to multiple petabytes without fragmentation into multiple volumes or file systems, data replication starts simple and stays that way as the system scales. A simple and intuitive web-based UI allows you to easily organize SyncIQ replication job rates and priorities to match business continuance priorities. Typically, a SyncIQ recurring job would be put in place to protect the data required for each major recovery point objective in your disaster recovery plan - sync every 6 hours for customer data, every 2 days for HR data, and so on. You can configure a directory, file system or even specific files for more or less frequent replication based on their business criticality. You can also create remote archive copies of out-of-use data that needs to be retained so you can reclaim valuable capacity in your production system.
The EMC Isilon scale-out storage platform gives you the power to scale capacity and performance, on-demand, transparently and without downtime. Now, you can right-size and accelerate your working set while automatically and transparently moving inactive data to more cost-effective storage using EMC SmartPools. SmartPools allows multiple tiers of Isilon storage nodes to exist within a single file system, and unlocks the ability to aggregate and consolidate applications. That gives you workflow isolation, higher utilization, and independent scalability - all with a single point of management. SmartPools allows you to define the value of the data within your workflows based on policies. Data movement is absolutely seamless - including in-flight read/write activity, locking semantics, backup application interaction and underlying file identification. With file-level granularity and control with automatic policies, manual control, or API interface, you can tune performance and layout, storage tier alignment, and protection settings - all with zero impact to your end-users.
With intelligent client connection load balancing and failover support, SmartConnect optimizes Isilon scale-out storage performance and availability. Through a single host name, SmartConnect enables client connection load balancing and dynamic NFS failover and failback of client connections across storage nodes to provide optimal utilization of the cluster resources. SmartConnect eliminates the need to install client side drivers, enabling you to easily manage large numbers of clients with confidence that in the event of a system failure, in flight reads and writes will successfully finish without failing.