Isilon Systems White Paper Sample

The continued expansion of business-critical information and unstructured rich content within extended enterprises is changing the storage dynamic in a wide range of industries and organizations. Extracting value from this expanding universe of digital information, primarily through the use of Big Data storage solutions, is becoming a core business mandate. IT organizations must place a high priority on boosting the efficiency and reliability of their platforms for collecting, storing, protecting, and delivering this information.

IDC defines Big Data technologies as a new generation of technologies and architectures, designed to economically extract value from very large volumes of a wide variety of data, by enabling high-velocity capture, discovery, and/or analysis.

The IT community has spent many years virtualizing hardware — abstracting hardware components from each other. In more recent years, advances have been made in abstracting applications from their underlying hardware.