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Let's say you have gigglebytes of data to store and you aren't sure you want to use a CDN. Amazon's S3 doesn't excite you. And you aren't quite ready to join the grid nation. You want to keep it all in house. Wouldn't it be nice to have something like the Google File System you could use to create a unified file system out of all your disks sitting on all your nodes?

If the clustered file system, clustered storage system, storage virtualization movement is new to you then this is a good intro paper. I's a both vendor puff piece and informative, so it might be worth your time.

A Quick Hit of What's Inside

Clustered storage architectures have the ability to pull together two or more storage devices to behave as a single entity. Clustered storage can be broken down into three types:
* 2-way simple failover clustering
* Namespace aggregation
* Clustered storage with a distributed file systems (DFS)

The Isilon IQ family of clustered storage systems was designed from the ground up to meet the needs of data-intensive enterprises and high-performance computing environments. By combining Isilon's OneFS® operating system software with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware, Isilon delivers modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class clustered storage systems. OneFS, with TrueScale™ technology, powers the industry's first and only storage system that enables linear or independent scaling of performance and capacity. This new flexible and tunable system, featuring a robust suite of clustered storage software applications, provides customers with an "out of the box" solution that is fully optimized for the widest range of applications and workflow needs.

* Scales from 4 TB ti 1 PB
* Throughput of up to 10 GB per seond
* Linear scaling
* Easy to manage

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