When ultimate IOPS performance is mission-critical, the Isilon IQ S-Series delivers. The Isilon IQ S-Series product line—built on Isilon’s proven clustered storage technology—accelerates business and increases speed-to-market by providing ultra-fast primary storage for your mission- ritical, highly transactional, and random access file-based applications.
Performance: The Isilon IQ 5400S—the first offering in the S-Series—surpasses the limits of traditional primary file storage, providing over 1.7 million IOPS, which is 30 times more than the leading Fibre Channel NAS solution, and 45 gigabytes per second (GBps) of aggregate throughput, all from a single file system. To accomplish these extraordinary speeds, the S-Series combines the power of enterprise-class 5,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive technology, Quad-GbE front-end networking, dual quad-core Intel CPUs, a high-performance InfiniBand back-end, and up to 2.3 TB of globally coherent cache.
Ease of Use: The S-Series, built on the same principles of simplicity as all Isilon products, provides ultimate ease of use. You can install, configure and have an Isilon IQ 5400S cluster online in under 10 minutes, without the need for expensive, specialized integration and configuration services.
Economics: With its impressive performance benchmarks, the Isilon IQ 5400S affords the best dollar per I/O solution available—a full thirty percent better than other enterprise NAS solutions. And, with the proven high-utilization factor of Isilon clustered storage—over 80 percent versus 50 percent for traditional NAS and SAN storage—overall storage efficiency is significantly improved while initial acquisition costs are greatly reduced.
The Isilon IQ 5400S is a high-performance enterprise solution, fit for a variety of applications and workflows, including:
- Digital Media: broadcast, real-time streaming, rendering, and post production
- Design & Simulation: simulation, verification, and analysis of electronic and mechanical systems, design for manufacturability, and analysis equiring fast scratch storage
- Web 2.0: Web-based database and email
