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Isilon Enters the Leaders Quadrant

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Fantastic news … but before I go any further, check out the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions” .

Now, isn’t our placement great?

This says three key things to me:

  • Scale-Out NAS is now firmly recognized as enterprise-class mid-range and high-end NAS. There should be no question; more and more firms are facing scaling challenges with traditional NAS and SAN approaches.
  • Isilon is executing well. Our progress in 2009 combined with our continuing track record of product innovation speaks firmly to that. The other three vendors in the Leaders quadrant are multi-billion dollar companies – to be in the same playing field is a huge testimony to our execution and our completeness of vision.
  • We are the leader in Scale-Out NAS. Isilon continues to move further and further away from other storage players; we are firmly establishing ourselves as the serious up-and-coming challenger.

As a recap, we are the only vendor on the planet who can build a 10 PB, single file system, single namespace storage system capable of scaling capacity and/or performance in 60 seconds – with the click of a button. Things are looking up and to the right.

Sam Grocott

About the Author: Sam Grocott

Sam Grocott is the Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Dell Technologies. He leads the marketing activities for all infrastructure and client solutions and the services portfolio, including critical GTM activities across the portfolio, such as AI, APEX & Multicloud, Edge, Telecom, portfolio marketing and competitive intelligence. Sam began his career at Isilon Systems in 2001, where he led product management and helped launch Isilon's first products in 2003. After EMC acquired Isilon in 2010, Sam headed the marketing and product management team that delivered the market-leading scale-out NAS offering. When Dell acquired EMC in 2016, Sam's role expanded to cover the Dell Infrastructure Solutions portfolio for Marketing. The organization evolved to represent the entire Dell Technologies portfolio a few years later.