Archiving, Backup & Recovery
Protection for Your Most Important Asset: Your Data
As enterprise datasets continue to expand to unprecedented sizes, data protection has never been more important. In addition, enterprise Service Level Agreements require ever-lower Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives. Isilon delivers a wide range of solutions to protect your data utilizing industry standard NDMP, fiber channel tape, or by utilizing Isilon as a deep disk archive or target for backups.
- Optimal Protection: The FlexProtect feature in the Isilon OneFS operatng system protects against data loss at a level beyond any other storage solution – with N+4 data protection.
- Fast Backup with fiber channel drives: Isilon can also be used as backup or archive target with our more dense storage and partnerships with vendors like CommVault allow us to offer a data reduction solution on disk.
- Speed: The speed of SSD drives are important for datasets that have millions of files and speed treewalk on large datasets. With SSD technology in the X-Series, NL-Series and S-Series Isilon delivers fast access you need.

Powered by the OneFS Operating System, Isilon offers a complete scale-out storage platform with industry-leading applications for archiving and data recovery while meeting critical business needs for protection and security.
- SnapshotIQ allows for quick recovery of files from a user level within OneFS operating system.
- SyncIQ offers a higher level of data protection allow block level differential synchronization to a secondary Isilon cluster that is a few feet away or thousands of miles away.
- Isilon Backup Accelerator offers fast backup to fiber channel tape for offsite storage.
- NL-Series is a cost effective $/TB backup to disk target, especially when combined with Isilon backup partners who offer deduplication.
Industry Partnerships
Isilon has a broad range of certifications and partnerships with leading companies including Atempo, Bakbone, CommVault,Front Porch Digital, Symantec, and many others.
"Traditional approaches to backup for file-based data become increasingly challenging as the number of files, volumes, and the amount of data continue to increase. Isilon has leveraged its clustered architecture to accelerate file-based backup." Noemi Greyzdorf, research manager, IDC