Featured Report: Isilon Systems Inc.

Isilon Systems, Inc. engages in the design, development, and marketing of clustered storage systems for storing and managing digital content in the United States and internationally. It sells clustered storage systems that consist of three or more storage nodes, which comprise its proprietary software and hardware components integrated into a self-contained 3.5-inch rack mountable chassis. The company also offers OneFS operating system software used in its storage systems. It serves various industries consisting of media and entertainment, Internet cable and telecommunications, oil and gas, life sciences, manufacturing, and the federal government. The company sells its products and services indirectly through channel partners, including value-added resellers and distributors, as well as directly through its field sales force. 
 

	Competitive Analysis

With the explosive proliferation of the Internet and subsequent information transmission boon, the need for data storage has created an industry category in itself. Companies of all sizes are dealing with enormous amounts of digital content, unstructured data and reference information that is driving an unprecedented increase in storage needs. 

The vast amount of data now being stored has also revealed flaws in the traditional methods of storing it. Reliability, scalability, speed, and security expectations have grown with the industry. 

With the scope of the need now fully realized, the solution to the key issues has revealed itself. Corporations dealing with huge amounts of data being produced on a daily basis have a desire to move to clustered architectures. Clustered network storage has enabled companies to gain significant advantages in scalability, performance, and cost, but reliability has remained elusive. 

Clustered storage systems that are able to achieve multi-hundred terabyte single file systems may requires thousands of disks, and tens or even hundreds of nodes. Each disk or node is a potential point of failure. 

Isilon(r) IQ's new approach is designed to ensure data integrity and availability in large clustered storage environments without the risk or inherent problems of the technology. 

Isilon's OneFS(r) (a patent-pending distributed file system) software provides the intelligence behind the Isilon IQ family of clustered storage systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures - file system, volume manager and RAID - into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent symmetric file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. OneFS provides a single point of management for large content stores, faster access to large content files, inherent high availability, and the ability to easily scale a single cluster's capacity - up to 10 Gigabytes per second of total throughput and hundreds of terabytes of capacity, all from a single network file system. 

With OneFS(r), no single point of failure will disrupt the entire storage system. In fact, the platform includes built-in tolerance for multi-failure scenarios. Pro-active failure detection and pre-emptive drive rebuilds further bolster the safety and security of stored data. Further, Isilon's architecture costs 40-60% less than traditional storage solutions to own and operate. 
 

	Fundamental Analysis

Isilon has not produced positive earnings yet, but some analysts are forecasting a positive quarterly EPS beginning in 2007. The quarterly EPS tables are based on those collective estimates. 

 

	Technical Information

 

	Recent Headlines

Netia Working With Isilon Systems Radio World - 18 May 2007Netia announced an agreement through which its Radio - Assist 7.5 digital audio software programs will be integrated with Isilon Systems ' Isilon IQ clustered storage." Radio - Assist ' s DBShare ...

Tricon Geophysics Deploys Isilon IQ to Transform Seismic Data Into ... PR Newswire (press release) - 16 May 2007 SEATTLE , May 15 / PRNewswire - FirstCall / - - Isilon ( R ) Systems ( NASDAQ : ISLN ) , the leader in clustered storage , today announced that Tricon Geophysics , Inc . has deployed Isilon IQ ...Seismic Exchange Adopts Isilon Storage - Northwest innovation Seismic Exchange Uses Isilon IQ to Advance Oil and Gas Discovery - PR Newswire (press release)

Market Report -- In Play (WIRES) MSN Money - 15 May 2007 On The Wires Isilon Systems ( ISLN ) announces that Seismic Exchange has deployed Isilon IQ as the central repository for its massive library of proprietary 3D seismic data . ..Amerigon ( ARGN ...

Tricon Geophysics Deploys Isilon IQ to Transform Seismic Data Into ... Earthtimes.org - 15 May 2007 SEATTLE , May 15 - - Isilon ( R ) Systems , the leader in clustered storage , today announced that Tricon Geophysics , Inc . has deployed Isilon IQ to power new breakthroughs in seismic data ...Seismic Exchange Uses Isilon IQ to Advance Oil and Gas Discovery - Earthtimes.org

Isilon awarded for "exceptional technology innovation" Zycko - 4 May 2007 Isilon Systems has been awarded Best of Show at the Bio - IT World Conference and Expo in the Information Technology Infrastructure category.The winners are selected by magazine editors of Bio ...Isilon Named Best of Show at Bio-IT World 2007 - PR Newswire (press release)

Isilon Named Best of Show at Bio-IT World 2007 PR Newswire (press release) - 3 May 2007 Editors of Leading Life Sciences Publication Select Isilon IQ for Exceptional Technology Innovation SEATTLE , May 3 / PRNewswire - FirstCall / - - Isilon ( R ) Systems ( Nasdaq : ISLN ) , the ...

Isilon Systems Expands Executive Team During Period of Rapid Growth and ... PR Newswire (press release) - 26 Apr 2007 SEATTLE , April 25 / PRNewswire - FirstCall / - - Isilon ( R ) Systems ( NASDAQ : ISLN ) , the leader in clustered storage , today announced that Steve Fitz is joining Isilon as Senior Vice President ...

Data represented in this research report was taken from sources deemed to be reliable, but no guaranty or warranty is made.

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