Webair, a leading web hosting provider with tens of thousands of customers worldwide, is using Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage repository for its virtual data center - including MySQL databases and Apache servers - eliminating the data fragmentation and complex storage management challenges associated with traditional SAN and NAS. With Isilon IQ, Webair spends less than two hours per month managing its storage system.
"Server virtualization provides the simplicity and agility we need to deliver world-class webhosting services to thousands of customers," said Brian Hourigan, senior technical manager, Webair. "However, traditional storage is simply too complex and inefficient to support a highly virtualized environment. By deploying Isilon IQ, our VMware solution now has the ideal storage architecture to maximize its core benefits, enabling us to eliminate storage complexity as a barrier to success and drive increased operating leverage and efficiency for our business."
As a result of deploying server virtualization, enterprise businesses often create hundreds or even thousands more machine instances than without virtualization. This magnifies the already-challenging complexity and scalability limitations of traditional SAN and NAS, which, in turn, increases operational overhead and compromises storage utilization efficiency and overall business agility. By using Isilon scale-out NAS in combination with server virtualization, enterprises can directly address the challenges of traditional storage architectures in virtualized environments to improve the management, performance, utilization and total cost of storage.
"As enterprise IT continues to adopt server virtualization at an astounding rate, the expectations for virtualization to dramatically simplify the overhead - and reduce the costs - of large-scale server environments are rising," said Ram Appalaraju, vice president of marketing, Isilon Systems. "Yet without the use of scale-out NAS to address storage infrastructure complexity, cost and performance challenges, these expectations will remain unfulfilled. By deploying Isilon IQ, customers can achieve simplicity at scale and unlock the full potential of server virtualization."
About Isilon Systems
Isilon Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN) is the proven leader in scale-out NAS. Isilon's clustered storage and data management solutions drive unique business value for customers by maximizing the performance of their mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon enables enterprises and research organizations worldwide to manage large and rapidly growing amounts of file-based data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective way. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com/.
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