Isilon vs. Xsan

[Michael Orlansky]

Thanks Bob. I’ve been scouring this forum for the past week or so and have read just about every post you wrote about the different systems. I will look into them further to see what’s what. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks,
Mike

[Michael Orlansky]

Clients shouldn’t grow to any more than 10 (realistically I’m thinking more like 5-7). We’ll be doing SD and HD promo’s in PAL (that’s another issue I’ll have to deal with). It’s going mainly be a final cut pro based facility with After Effects and some Photoshop work as well. I could see our storage needs growing a lot considering it will eventually become a digital file based workflow.

Thanks,
Mike

[Jordan Woods]

It is important to remember who Isilon is now, EMC. The deal is done, but the two companies are still merging. I have yet to see a road map from EMC on their plans for the acquisition other than the rumors and speculation that it was bought to fight against Netapp and their “big iron” scale out NAS.

-Jordan

[Steve Modica]

I know the isilon guys and I like them a lot. It’s infiniband clustering and lots of cool load balancing. All good stuff.
That being said, you have 6 guys. You don’t need all of that. You also don’t need the amazing modularity they offer. So why spend that kind of money?
Small Tree can put something in with very low latency and it’s all stuff you can easily repurpose when you upgrade one day.
Steve

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications