End-User Panel on Managing Biomedical Storage Growth Includes Isilon Customer the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Among Other Leading Biomedical Institutions
SEATTLE, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN),
the leader in clustered storage, today announced that Isilon Chief Technology
Officer Paul Rutherford will address the growing data storage challenges
facing life science research organizations as part of the Harvard Medical
School's BioMedical HPC Leadership Summit, October 5-7, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Mr. Rutherford will be participating on an Executive Panel,
featuring representatives from Intel, the SAS Institute and others, focused on
overcoming the challenges associated with managing, archiving and retrieving
large and rapidly growing stores of critical research data in Petabyte-scale
life science and bioinformatics environments. The Executive Panel is today,
October 7, from 9:00-10:15 a.m. ET, at the Harvard Medical School Conference
Center in Boston, MA.
'In today's life science research environments, the amount of data being
created by next-generation instruments threatens to overwhelm existing storage
infrastructures, slowing research productivity and dramatically increasing
costs. To stay ahead of such extreme data growth and maximize the value of
this truly mission-critical information, research organizations must be able
to efficiently store, access and analyze this data at an unprecedented rate,'
said Paul Rutherford, CTO, Isilon Systems. 'Isilon clustered storage, with
its highly scalable, high-performance, pay-as-you-grow architecture, is
specifically designed to effectively store and manage rapidly growing stores
of file-based information -- such as biomedical research data -- helping
leading life science organizations to focus on their science, not their
storage.'
In addition to Mr. Rutherford's participation in the Executive Panel,
Matthew Trunnell, Manager of Research Computing at the Broad Institute of MIT
and Harvard, an Isilon customer, will be presenting as part of an end-user
panel on Managing Biomedical Storage Growth, today, from 11:15 a.m. - 12:30
p.m. ET.
Further information on the BioMedical HPC Leadership Summit at Harvard
Medical School can be found at: https://biomedhpc.med.harvard.edu/
Powered by OneFS(R), Isilon IQ X-Series delivers the industry's first
single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to
the rapidly growing stores of file-based data, setting the standard for scale
out file storage. OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that
powers all of Isilon's award-winning IQ family of clustered storage systems
including the Isilon IQ 1920, 3000, 6000, 9000, 12000, Accelerator-x, and EX
6000, 9000 and 12000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software
applications including SnapshotIQ(R), SmartConnect(TM), SmartQuotas(TM), and
SyncIQ(R) that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest
levels of data protection and automated data management.
About Isilon Systems
Isilon Systems (NASDAQ: ISLN) is the worldwide leader in clustered storage
systems and software for file-based data, enabling enterprises to transform
data into information - and information into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-
winning family of IQ clustered storage systems combines 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.
Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com.
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