Scale-out vs. Scale-up: Optimizing Your Storage Solution

Fueled by the life-changing technologies of genomic sequencing, genotyping, gene expression analysis, and bioinformatics, Life Sciences organizations are experiencing intense growth in data. Life Sciences researchers are generating massive amounts of data with storage retention requirements from two years minimum to perpetuity. The technologies and tools driving biomedical research and drug development such as next generation sequencing (NGS), genomic analysis, proteomics, and high content screening (HCS) also pose immense challenges to managing data throughout the data lifecycle - from generation, to analysis, to archive.

The Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and cyber security markets are poised to receive significant US Federal funding increases over the next several years and the ISR market for the US Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) market alone is projected to grow 12% CAGR, generating $86.5 billion in revenues from 2013-2018, along with mountains of data.

As a part of our new “Federal Storage Solutions Webinar Series”, join Audie Hittle, EMC Isilon’s CTO, for an educational webinar to learn how EMC Isilon can address the operational challenges and needs associated with these ISR missions and the “Big Data” collected from these platforms by providing a simple, smart, agile and efficient capability solution.

During this presentation, you will learn:
• How Isilon scales quickly and easily to keep pace with your data storage capacity and performance needs
• How Isilon’s simple, easy-to-manage storage platform reigns in OPEX costs
• How Isilon improves your storage efficiencies and reduces costs
• Why Isilon is the most secure and highly resilient storage solution in the market necessary to protect your data and maintain the highest levels of availability

The use of video surveillance as a vital safety and security tool is growing enormously across virtually all industries and public sector agencies. This , along with the adoption of new camera technology and advanced video management software and tools is driving the demand for secure and scalable video surveillance storage solutions.

Vendor-neutral imaging is fast becoming a requirement for your healthcare IT infrastructure. This translates to massive growth in unstructured data and a real need to leverage a medical imaging strategy across the enterprise. Join Rob Pegler, CTO of EMC Isilon, and Mark Woodward, VP, Enterprise Imaging of Merge Healthcare, as they discuss how EMC Isilon and Merge have created a simple, scalable solution, which enables the expansion of storage infrastructure, while at the same time providing a flexible, scalable solution for image viewing.

Isilon’s products are simple to install, manage and scale, at any size. Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future. Come learn about the unique benefits of Isilon storage in this technical overview presentation with our Isilon specialist Anthony Lembo.

Isilon’s products are simple to install, manage and scale, at any size. Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future. Come learn about the unique benefits of Isilon storage in this technical overview presentation with our Isilon specialist Anthony Lembo.

Learn why today’s Big Data environments demand a new type of storage infrastructure; one based on highly virtualized scale-out NAS.

As scale-out NAS become widely implemented in enterprise IT for mainstream applications these solutions must scale past physical boundaries to support today’s pace of unstructured data growth, be easily managed, provide enterprise features for new levels of data security and support multi-tenancy in virtualized and cloud environments.

Attend this November 6th Webinar to learn:
•How ESG defines big data
•How big data changes storage requirements
•What to look for in a Big Data NAS solution

There is much talk about scale-out architectures in the IT industry in general and the storage industry in particular. Scale-out architectures are often contrasted with more traditional scale-up architectures. This session explains the key characteristics of scale-up and scale-out storage architectures, how they differ and complement each other for different application use cases, and finally discuss some key questions to ask that can help you decide which architectural style best suits your application and environment.

In this one hour webinar, you’ll hear about the latest trends relating to Big Data Analytics and Hadoop and how innovative enterprises are leveraging their Big Data assets to gain new insights and identify new opportunities to help them accelerate their business. You’ll also learn about six key challenges of providing an enterprise-ready Hadoop infrastructure and how to address them with the industry’s first and only scale-out storage solution with native Hadoop integration.

Analysts and CIOs agree that Data Growth, Performance and Scalability, and Ease of Management are significant challenges when deploying cloud infrastructures. What if you could simplify storage management and reduce the associated operating costs by 3x to 10x? What if you could scale your storage from Terabytes to Petabytes in just minutes with zero disruption to your business?

Attend this session and hear how our customers are using EMC Isilon Scale-Out Storage solutions to solve key challenges associated with cloud deployments, and learn ways to simplify your company’s journey to the cloud.

This webinar will provide a look at technical concepts and implementation processes when planning and building a vSphere infrastructure that uses EMC Isilon storage. A review of the options and considerations for creating and managing datastores will be discussed, along with EMC's recommendations for tuning vSphere and Isilon for optimal performance and availability.

In 2010, organizations worldwide spent $16.6 billion on data storage solutions. By 2014, that number will grow 44% to $24 billion. View this webinar to hear IDC analyst Richard Villars describe how a unified scale-out storage solution can help you dramatically simplify your storage management.

When ultimate IOPS performance is mission-critical, the Isilon S200 delivers. The Isilon S200 product line — next-generation high performance 2U platform built on Isilon’s proven unified scale-out storage technology — accelerates business and increases speed-to-market by providing ultra-fast primary storage for your mission-critical, highly transactional, and random access file-based applications. View this video for the latest Isilon SpecSFS performance results.

EMC Isilon's unified scale-out NAS makes complex storage administrative tasks simple and guarantees greater than 80% storage efficiency, making large-scale application consolidation and virtualized data centers a reality. View how Isilon's enterprise file- and block-based applications can be consolidated onto a single pool of storage, simplifying data management, while increasing resource utilization and IT efficiency. EMC Isilon is the only storage solution that eliminates storage sprawl and improves virtual server utilization with the flexibility of unified protocol support.

OneFS is Isilon's sixth-generation operating system that provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out storage systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures- file system, volume manager and RAID- into one unified software layer, creating a single intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster. View this video and see how Isilon's OneFS operating systems helps simplify data management.

To truly realize the value of a flexible, dynamic server virtualization environment, the gap between servers and storage must be closed. As users come to expect fast provisioning and deployment of new applications, they will become less and less tolerant of delays and interruptions that traditional scale-up storage architectures create.

In this interactive Webcast, ESG, VMware, and Isilon will share the results of a recent survey on the impact of storage on virtualization, as well as storage strategies to ensure successful and widespread deployment of server virtualization.

Attendees will learn:
- The impact on traditional storage infrastructures when implementing server virtualization
- The need for updated DR strategies and new backup policies
- How a scale-out storage architecture for virtualized environments improves scalability and enables faster provisioning

Server virtualization has made shared network storage a necessity. Join George Crump from Storage Switzerland, an analyst firm focused on storage, virtualzation and cloud computing in this webcast around how scale-out NAS fits into your server virtualization projects – whether you’re just starting the project, or well in the throes of one.