Clustering specialist Isilon unveiled a major overhaul of its hardware today, taking the wraps off its high-end X-Series device in an attempt to jumpstart its business.
The vendor has upgraded the hardware within its IQ line of products, which will now be sold as the X-Series. Isilon is particularly focused on the revamped X 12000, formerly known as the IQ 12000.
"The X-Series is up to 60 percent faster, specifically for [data] writes," explains Brett Goodwin, Isilon's vice president of marketing and business development. "And it requires 20 percent less power on a per-node and per-Tbyte basis. Its probably the biggest end-to-end upgrade to our product line since 2005."
The exec claims that the two-rack-unit-high X-Series boxes can now write data at up to 10 Gbytes per second in a single file system, thanks to dual-core Intel 5100 processors. "We have gone from a single processor [on the IQ line], to a dual-core processor," explains Goodwin, adding that the chips' memory speed has more than doubled from 333 MHz to 667 MHz.
The dual-core CPUs also consume just 80 watts of power, compared to 130 watts on the IQ hardware's single-core chips. Isilon has also partnered with cooling specialist ColdWatt to deploy power management software on each box.
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for Juniper Networks, explains how the advanced technology is transforming operations.
Contact center leaders from 8x8, Awaken Intelligence, and 360insight discuss the importance of agent experience.
AI may force enterprises to rewire parts of their data centers so they are fully optimized to run such workloads. The question is do you use Ethernet or InfiniBand?
