Isilon CEO Sujal Patel to Speak at University of Maryland CIO Forum

SEATTLE, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Isilon® (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced that CEO Sujal Patel is a featured speaker at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business 11th Annual CIO Forum, "Innovation 2.0: IT in Government and Business," taking place on Friday, November 5th, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET at the Ronald Regan Building in Washington, DC. Patel will be delivering a speech entitled, "The Era of On-Demand IT: Innovating to Catch the Big Data Wave," at 11:45 a.m.

Patel's presentation will outline the potential impact big data holds for society and the important role shared, on-demand IT will play in maximizing the value of big data. For more information on the CIO Forum, please go here. More information on Isilon's scale-out storage solutions can be found here.

About Isilon

As a global leader in scale-out storage, Isilon delivers powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to manage their data, not their storage. Isilon's products are simple to install, manage and scale, at any size. And, unlike traditional enterprise storage, Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future. We're challenging enterprises to think differently about their storage, because when they do, they'll recognize there's a better, simpler way. Learn what we mean at http://www.isilon.com.

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