StrataScale Powers Private Cloud Services With Isilon Scale-out NAS

SEATTLE, May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced that StrataScale, Inc. has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS to power its new Private Cloud service, offering organizations a responsive, reliable and secure cloud computing platform utilizing dedicated physical resources. Using Isilon IQ, featuring its OneFS® operating system, StrataScale has unified its hypervisor-based Private Cloud onto a single high performance, highly scalable shared pool of storage, maximizing the performance of its virtual servers to provide clients with on-demand compute resources. With Isilon scale-out NAS, StrataScale can scale its storage resources in lockstep with customer demand, reducing capital costs and operational overhead, while expanding its solution offerings to drive new business growth.

"Our new Private Cloud service delivers best-of-breed enterprise-grade cloud computing resources on-demand, enabling our customers to build and scale their own virtual IT infrastructure quickly, securely and reliably," said Denoid Tucker, vice president of technology, StrataScale. "We've seen significant demand for our Private Cloud offering, and consequently we require a storage solution that can match our platform's flexibility and keep pace with growing demand. Isilon scale-out NAS does exactly that."

StrataScale's Private Cloud service delivers hypervisor-based virtual machine instances running CentOS, Red Hat Linux or Microsoft, enabling customers to leverage the power of virtual computing without investment in physical resources. Isilon scale-out NAS delivers the linear scaling of performance and capacity StrataScale requires to effectively meet growing demand for its platform, overcoming the limited file system size and complex management of traditional SAN and NAS solutions that hinders virtual server performance and increases operating costs.

"Cloud computing promises increased efficiency and application performance at reduced costs, but as of yet, few providers have delivered," said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon Systems. "By using Isilon to offer a highly flexible, secure and truly on-demand Private Cloud, StrataScale is a step ahead of the competition and with its newly expanded solution portfolio, well-positioned to maximize the market opportunity for enterprise-grade cloud services."

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.

About StrataScale

StrataScale, a division of RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, Inc., creates next-generation, best-in-class hosting solutions that offer unparalleled efficiency, reliability, security, and flexibility. StrataScale's flagship Automated Managed Hosting service is the only fully managed server hosting service that enables customers to build and manage physical servers in minutes from a secure Web portal using patent-pending technologies. StrataScale's Public Cloud and Private Cloud services provide the most stable cloud computing experience on the market, as customers benefit from enterprise-grade components and physical servers housed in RagingWire's enterprise class 220,000 square foot data center with 99.999% availability and N+2 redundancy. And StrataScale's exclusive Hybrid Hosting service enables businesses to integrate managed servers and cloud servers seamlessly on the same secure network for the most scalable and reliable hosting experience ever created. For more information, please visit www.stratascale.com.  

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SOURCE Isilon Systems