DELLEMC has announced an All Flash Isilon targeting the Extreme performance NAS markets.  Below is a high-level breakdown of the new platform.

• Extreme density, modular and incredibly scalable all-flash tier
• Start a cluster with a single chassis & scale to 100+ chassis in a single global namespace
• Get up to 1PB of Flash from 1 4U chassis
• All OneFS Features Supported
• 6x greater IOPs per RU
• 11x more throughput per RU
• 2x greater cluster capacity per RU

Isilon All-Flash Advantages

• Performance for demanding workloads
• Ability to automatically tier data
• All Isilon protocols supported
• Enterprise grade commodity components
• Enterprise features: Data protection, Data management, Data Security and compliance capabilities

Use Cases

• Media and Entertainment – 4k streaming of data, need for constant turnaround times
• Electronic Design Automation – Massive increase in design complexity, Silicon Technology every 2 years geometry shrinks and chip capacity doubles
• IOT – sensor data
• IOPs Intensive – Billions of small files, large datasets for parallel processing