It’s really been an exhilarating last couple of months leading up to the recent historical merger between Dell and EMC! We just completed our first Dell World and announced Isilon All-Flash last week. While all that was in progress, the Isilon team was heads-down focused on the next update to the industry leading Scale-Out NAS OneFS operating system.
Today, we’re announcing the new OneFS 8.0.1 release with a strong focus on strengthening the Data Lake with features supporting the horizontals and vertical markets we serve. For the horizontal markets, we’ve added new and improved capabilities around Hadoop big data analytics, Isilon CloudPools, and IsilonSD Edge. For the vertical industries we support, we’ve focused on enhancing the needs of the Healthcare and Financial markets.
Customers continue to gain more value from their data with analytics. Hadoop based solutions have always been a pillar for Isilon customers because of native support for HDFS protocol in the OneFS operating system. In OneFS 8.0.1, we’ve added support for Apache Ambari to proactively monitor key performance metrics and alerts which enables enterprise customers to have a single point for management of the entire Hadoop cluster. In addition, from a security perspective, not only have we integrated with Apache Ranger to deliver seamless authorization and access control, but we’ve also added support for end-to-end data in-flight encryption between Isilon nodes and the HDFS client.
Many of the Isilon enterprise customers continue to use OneFS because of its simplicity and ease of management at scale. We’ve added many new features for enterprises like CloudPools proxy support to increase security, reduce risk, and simplify management. For IsilonSD Edge software defined storage, we’ve added support for VMware ESX 6.0 and have seamlessly integrated with EMC Remote Support (ESRS) for remote monitoring, issue resolution and troubleshooting.
Other enterprise capabilities include seamless non-disruptive upgrades from OneFS 8.0, upgrade rollback support, a 5X improvement in audit performance and a completely re-written framework for performance resource management, reporting and data insights.
Isilon deployments continue to add value for customers across verticals like Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Life Sciences, EDA and others. In this release we have strengthened our solutions for the Healthcare and Finance verticals. For Healthcare PACS workloads, we’ve added capabilities in OneFS 8.0.1 that increases the efficiency, optimizes the storage and significantly improves the storage utilization for PACS archive workloads. For the Financial industry, we’ve added seamless integration for compliance data with business continuity features by integrating SmartLock compliance mode with SyncIQ replication for push button failover and failback.
OneFS 8.0.1 – the first major upgrade to the OneFS 8.0 code base – it contains a number of features that many enterprises were waiting for. If you are looking to upgrade to the OneFS 8.0 code base because you generally want to wait for a subsequent “dot release”, today is the day, your wait is over!
