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Fotolog, a social blogging site centered around photos, grew from about 300 thousand users in 2004 to over 11 million users in 2007. Though they initially experienced the inevitable pains of rapid growth, they overcame their problems and now manage over 300 million photos and 800,000 new photos are added each day. Generating all that fabulous content are 20 million unique monthly visitors and a volunteer army of 30,000 new users each day. They did so well a very impressed suitor bought them out for a cool $90 million. That's scale meets success by anyone standards. How did they do it?

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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