Storage Solutions

Isilon® Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content, enabling enterprises to transform data into information - and information into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems combine Isilon's OneFS operating system software with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class storage systems. Isilon's clustered storage solutions speed access to critical business information while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of storing it. World-class companies in the areas of media and entertainment, Internet services, cable and telecommunications, oil and gas, life sciences, manufacturing and government are using Isilon's products to streamline their workflows, increase productivity and significantly improve their bottom lines.

Isilon Products

The Isilon IQ clustered storage product line addresses enterprises' full spectrum of storage needs - from the highest performance tier-1 applications to tier-2 enterprise archive, disk-to-disk backup and disaster recovery. Powered by OneFS®, the Isilon IQ family of products creates a single pool of expandable storage that is easy to install, manage and grow. Once racked, a 10, 50 or 100+ terabyte cluster takes less than 10 minutes to configure and set up, and capacity can be added in less than 60 seconds-with no downtime. The Isilon product line is comprised of the IQ 200, 1920, 3000 and 6000 platform nodes, the EX 6000 and IQ Accelerator extension nodes, and licensable software applications such as SyncIQ™, SnapShotIQ, and SmartConnect. This flexible product line satisfies customers' varying capacity and performance needs for all unstructured data and enterprise file-based information. In addition, Isilon's unique TrueScale™ technology enables customers to scale both performance and capacity linearly or independently based on application or workflow needs.

Plasmon provides the storage industry's most comprehensive line of professional automated libraries, optical drives, media and software. Customers include corporations, institutions and government agencies worldwide and are backed by global service and support.

Plasmon's product line includes:

• Ultra Density Optical (UDO): Based on ultra density, blue laser technology, UDO is the recognized successor to 5.25 inch MO (Magneto Optical) storage and is available in both Rewritable and true Write Once media formats. 30GB UDO, offering more than three times the capacity of 9.1GB MO, at one-fifth the cost, is the first generation in a roadmap stretching to 120GB.
• G-Series Professional Optical Libraries: Supporting both UDO and MO media configurations, G-Series Professional Optical Libraries offer an impressive capacity range and unmatched robustness and functionality. They are scalable from 24 to 638 slots and 720GB to almost 20TB with 30GB UDO media.
• D-Series DVD Libraries: Configured with Multi Drives for maximum media flexibility, D-Series DVD libraries are ideal for cost-sensitive archival storage environments. They are also excellent for consolidating DVDs scattered across an organization, creating a centrally managed and more easily accessed DVD archive. D-Series libraries scale from 80 to 2,175 discs with storage capacities ranging from 564GB to more than 20TB.
• 12-inch Optical Drives and Libraries: Plasmon's 4th generation 30GB 12-inch TrueWORM patented dual-headed drives offer 30GB of data under head, the highest capacity of any optical drive. These drives read and write both sides of 30GB media simultaneously, yielding fast response times and offering the fastest transfer rates in the industry. Plasmon's 12-inch technology is ideal for applications requiring fast access to huge data sets. Permanent, unalterable and secure.
• V-Series Tape Libraries: Plasmon Tape Libraries include flexible configurations designed to protect your storage investment. Designed with the end-user in mind, critical components are located in the front of the machine for quick and easy addition or replacement of drives and power supplies, reducing service time and costs. The scalability of the V-Series provides near-line native storage capacities from 1TB to 10.2TB. Currently available with the next-generation LTO Ultrium tape drive technology in our libraries and choice of AIT or LTO in our autoloaders, Plasmon provides data rates ranging from 54GB/hr to 364GB/hr.
• Diamond: Diamond storage management software transforms Plasmon UDO/MO/DVD/CD Libraries into cost-effective virtual hard drives, accessible via a drive-letter and network share. Archive to rewritable media or direct write to write once media for legal admissibility. Diamond's web-based GUI makes system administration easy. Diamond auto-detects and configures itself for Plasmon Libraries, providing easy local or remote administration via its powerful web-based GUI.

International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that the demand for enterprise storage capacity is growing 75% every year.

The tremendous growth can be attributed to:

• e-mail messaging
• eCommerce
• Document imaging
• Digital media files
• New government regulations

Whether you need a 24-slot jukebox for basic storage needs, a disk-based WORM solution to help with new compliance regulations, or want to explore new IP SAN technology, IDT can provide you with the secure, scalable solution to meet your organization's unique storage needs..

StoneFly Networks is the innovator of a new generation of IP-based storage provisioning appliances that quickly and easily transform Ethernet networks into cost-effective IP SANs. StoneFly IP SANs are designed to give IT professionals a simple, intelligent, yet affordable entry to the benefit of storage area networking. High-quality RAID storage options are available from 1TB or larger.

Combining an iSCSI router and bridge with the power of a storage provisioning engine, Storage Concentrators are installed at the core of the network to provide advanced storage management, business continuity, and disaster recovery planning functions, including volume management, FailOver, mirroring (local and remote data replication), and data migration, as well as disk-to-disk and tape backup. By utilizing Ethernet network infrastructure, Storage Concentrators allow simple, intelligent, and affordable SANs that do not require specialized expertise to install.

• Scalable IP SAN configurations from entry-level to high capacity
• Affordable storage that can be increased as your data grows
• Modular configuration protects your investment - add only what you need
• Enterprise class features and functionality with a cost effective, expandable package
• Web-enabled user interface allows for central storage management over any standard web browser

Integrating SANs with mainstream IP networking places manageable shared storage solutions within the reach of every enterprise, large or small. By removing barriers to distance, device support, and protocols, the convergence of networking and storage provides a firm foundation for constructing IP storage networks today that will accommodate the evolving storage needs of tomorrow.

Respond to the increase in regulatory legislation and heightened scrutiny surrounding preservation, retention and management of electronic records. IP SANs, can meet the growing storage requirements for e-mail, while also serving the archiving and regulatory requirements of many industries.

The benefits of IP SANs include:

• Simplified implementation and ongoing maintenance
• Increased return-on-investment over traditional SAN architectures
• Enterprise-level availability, scalability, and management
• Disk-to-Disk backup and restores for speed and ease of administration
• An easy growth path as storage requirements increase
• Meets many of the regulatory requirements for disk-based archival/retrieval

IP-based storage provisioning appliances that enable real-time management and optimization of new and existing storage assets. Shipping since June 2002, Storage Concentrators have been installed across key vertical markets, including insurance, healthcare, education, government, financial services and manufacturing.

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EMC Corporation's Centera content addressed storage ( CAS ) solution.

EMC Centera represents an entirely new software-driven storage architecture specifically designed to address the unique information storage requirements of fixed content such as invoices, purchase orders, contracts, corporate records, e-mails, and other business transaction-related documents and information.

The world's first disk-based WORM (Write Once, Read Many) solution, EMC Centera provides users of IDT's solutions with a complete, secure solution for the management and protection of their company's important business records.

Used in conjunction with IDT's Records Management and Corporate Compliance Pilot Packs, EMC Centera Compliance Edition meets the requirements for SEC Rule 17a-4, DoD 5015.2, and 21 CFR Part 11. With Centera Compliance Edition, Compliance Officers and IT administrators can leverage all the basic benefits of a CAS solution, plus the compliance-focused features of information retention and disposition enforcement. Centera has intrinsic hardware and software controls that enforce information retention and authenticity at an individual record level. To ensure absolute information integrity, Centera enforces immutability and retention protection at the microcode level.

With the EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) solution, you get:

• Fast, affordable online access to your fixed content assets. You can easily store and retrieve vast amounts of digital fixed content and be sure of its authenticity and integrity.
• Optimized to address regulatory needs and corporate governance. The new EMC Centera Compliance and Compliance Plus Editions are purpose-built to enable compliance with the most stringent regulatory requirements.
• The world's first complete storage solution for fixed content requirements. With EMC Centera, you can manage massive amounts of fixed content at lower costs. Centera meets your requirements for random access and simultaneous use.
• Cost-effective scalability. As your information assets grow, you can bring 3TB or more of fixed content online with EMC Centera. You can expand your network to petabyte-level capacity - easily, non-disruptively, and cost effectively.