back to article EMC's new Isilon models are great little performers – but why no capacity increase?

EMC's Isilon has introduced two new go-faster products and a refresh release of its OneFS operating system, increasing performance and extending access protocol support – but not increasing capacity. The new models from the scale-out filer business offer a twofold performance increase, and there are two of them. In the high- …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Because cloud?

    I thought cloud was the answer to everything.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Capacity? I'll Show You Capacity

    6TB drives in a 60 drive 4RU configuration? Let's talk single file system and usable capacity in a 12RU environment.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Cloud?

    Depends... are you wanting to save private and potentially incriminating personal images or pushing some real low tier workflows? Cloud is most certainly the answer... depending on the question.

    Different strokes for different folks (workflows).

  4. senrik1

    Isilon's storage

    .... has always had its capability limited to the size of the drives, and the size of the infiniband switch that the nodes are on... and of course the parity level (how much of a window of risk are you willing to take?)

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