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It's a Wonderful World

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:05:58 +0000

Some of you, of a certain vintage, may remember that beautiful song performed by the legendary Louis Armstrong. He recorded it in 1968, and it sold over a million copies, a huge hit for its day. I well remember listening to it on the radio. Note, I was age 0x0C back then, you figure it out!

Pechanga Resort & Casino Implements Video Surveillance Storage in a Virtual Environment with EMC Isilon

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:37:20 +0000

Pechanga Resort & Casino has deployed EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS solutions for their primary storage of video surveillance content as part of a complete data center transformation. The new integrated infrastructure, enabled the Surveillance Department to reduce its data center footprint by 80 percent and significantly cut energy and hardware costs.

2012 To Do: Bring an Enterprise-Ready Hadoop Solution to Market. Check!

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

We’re rooting for Hadoop here at EMC Isilon. It’s a fantastic platform and has tremendous potential to help enterprises with big data. Today, we’re very proud to announce significant innovation as we accelerate the enterprise adoption of Hadoop:

EMC Isilon’s OneFS 6.5 now natively integrates the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) protocol, thus becoming the industry’s first scale-out NAS system with native Hadoop support!

Fired up for 2012!

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:21:08 +0000

I’m so excited - no, wait, scratch that. I’M FIRED UP for what’s in store for 2012 here at Isilon! As great as 2011 was, this next year has even more industry game changers in store.

Since joining the EMC family, we’ve been on quite the ride as our parent company has taken our solutions into new use cases, environments and industries.

It’s Been a Record-Setting, Lunar Landing, Wham Bam Slam of a Year!

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:17:47 +0000

WOW. I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since Isilon joined the EMC family. Where does the time go?!

Actually, I can tell you where it went, at least in Isilon’s case.

Highlights from a Super week in Seattle

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:43:08 +0000

WOW - what a whirlwind week last week!

Year after year, the Supercomputing conference never ceases to get me amped.

Get excited! THE HPC Show of the Year is in Seattle next week

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:54:44 +0000

Things are busy here at EMC Isilon as we’re gearing up for the biggest high performance computing (HPC) conference of the year: Supercomputing ‘11! The conference runs all next week (Nov.

Your Big Data Company Just Got a Little Bit Bigger

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:39:34 +0000

In October, we packed up our former headquarters on the Seattle waterfront and headed to our new digs at 505 First Avenue South, in the city’s Pioneer Square area.

Big Data is growing and so are we! In the next year or so, we plan to hire an additional 200 employees to our existing 430 in the Seattle office. Our expansion was welcome news to the Seattle area, and we loved having our co-founder Sujal Patel, EMC CEO Joe Tucci and Seattle’s Mayor McGinn host the festivities!

When you make a big move like this, it’s hard not to look back and appreciate how far you’ve come.

Architecture Matters – Part II

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:11:03 +0000

This blog is the second in a series that focuses on architecture, specifically architecture for scale-out storage. In the last blog, I told the story of ‘Galloping Gertie’, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. If you didn’t have a chance to read it, please do; you’ll find it here. The thesis was that scale-out is not just single namespace, but true single filesystem and true scaling of resources as nodes are added.

The Bucketmaster (A fable for Halloween, with apologies to Hans Christian Andersen)

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:14:40 +0000

Once upon a time, there was a man who was a Bucketmaster. He lived in a very sunny land. He was a rich man, having sold buckets of water to many. He was also a learned man, having studied his craft far away in a land called Texas, and he much preferred his nickname from that school. So the people called him Aggie the Bucketmaster.

One day, a man who had bought water from Aggie the Bucketmaster for many years sat down to think. This man was also rich; he owned many bakeries where the people came to eat.