SEATTLE, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Isilon® (Nasdaq:
ISLN) today announced that West Nottinghamshire College, one of the
largest providers of post-16 education in the United Kingdom, has deployed Isilon scale-out
storage to consolidate its data storage environment, simplifying
data management for 26,000 staff and students.
West Nottinghamshire College has 25,000 students and more than
1,150 staff, but only 19 IT staff to manage its server, storage and
networking infrastructure. Prior to deploying Isilon, the college's
traditional SAN and NAS systems couldn't scale in-line with rapid
and often unpredictable data growth, complicating data management
and limiting the college's ability to meet student and staff IT
needs.
"Running out of capacity is not an option for us," said
Gavin Peake, Director of ICT, West
Nottinghamshire College. "What we needed was a solution we could
bring online and expand quickly that is suitable for any type of
workload. Most importantly, it needed to be incredibly reliable
with very low management overhead."
Working with Isilon channel partner Khipu Networks Limited, the
college deployed Isilon's X-Series, powered by the OneFS®
operating system, to consolidate its data storage
infrastructure onto a single, shared storage resource, eliminating
the complex management of its previous storage systems.
"Setting it up took a few hours and provided us with a scalable
storage platform from day one," Peake added. "We now have a
centralized home space for all our students and staff and the
ability to allocate capacity to new projects in just a few
minutes."
"Today, universities must often maintain demanding service level
agreements for data access, retention and transfer with limited IT
staff," said Sam Grocott, vice
president of marketing, Isilon. "By deploying Isilon to simplify
data management for its staff and students, West Nottinghamshire
College is setting best practices for any university looking to
more effectively and cost-efficiently manage data growth."
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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