Isilon Systems Named to AlwaysOn OnHollywood 100

Isilon Systems Named to AlwaysOn OnHollywood 100

Recognized for Innovation in Digital Media - Redefining the Way Entertainment Is Created, Distributed and Experienced

SEATTLE, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Isilon(R) Systems, the leader in clustered storage, today announced that AlwaysOn has selected Isilon as one of its OnHollywood 100, honoring private companies that are redefining the way entertainment is created, distributed and experienced. Isilon Systems, chosen from hundreds of companies as a top innovator in the "Devices, Components, and Infrastructures" sector, was recognized for its innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz, and investor value creation.

"We scoured hundreds of companies as we voted on the top emerging private technology companies," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "Selected are the companies we think are demonstrating significant market traction or pursuing game-changing technology. We expect these organizations to have a big impact for both Hollywood and Silicon Valley."

"The digital media revolution is driving the most profound change in the media and entertainment industry in the past fifty years," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. "This award further validates Isilon's position as the leading provider of next generation storage for the media and entertainment industry."

Isilon recently announced that more than 70 leading media and entertainment companies have embraced Isilon IQ clustered storage to accelerate their digital media workflow and to capitalize on new business opportunities in digital media.

The AlwaysOn first annual OnHollywood 100 list features the top private companies in the digital media entertainment sector. In order to identify the selected one hundred organizations, AlwaysOn editors first teamed up with KPMG; Bridge Bank; Lewis PR; PayPal; and Manatt, Phelps & Philips to survey global influencers and industry insiders for an in-depth analysis of the digital media entertainment space. Next, the panel then turned its attention to the 600 global nominations received and evaluated the contenders on the criteria of innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz, and investor value creation. Companies demonstrating extraordinary leadership amongst their peers were named to the OnHollywood 100.

Isilon and its Isilon IQ clustered storage systems have been recognized with numerous awards for key innovations which have advanced the storage industry by enabling customers to efficiently store, manage and process their unstructured data and digital content with incredibly high levels of performance, ease of use and scalability that are simply not possible with traditional storage systems. With its clustered network architecture, single file system, ease of management, and self-healing and highly redundant operations, Isilon IQ delivers unmatched scalability, total aggregate throughput, reliability, ease of use and price-performance for a clustered storage system -- scaling to more than 500 TB in a single file system while delivering 7 GB/s of total aggregate throughput -- and sets the innovation bar in clustered storage.

A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=12031.

Powered by OneFS(R) 4.0, Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single file system that unifies and provides unprecedented access to the exploding stores of unstructured and file-based information, eradicating the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures currently constraining enterprises. Isilon's award-winning Isilon IQ family of clustered storage systems include Isilon IQ 1920, 3000, 4800, 6000, Accelerator and EX 6000.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon is the leader in clustered storage. Isilon's award-winning family of Isilon IQ products consists of high-performance clustered storage systems that combine an intelligent distributed file system with modular industry-standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability. Isilon IQ was designed for unstructured data and for use in data-intensive markets such as media and entertainment, digital imaging, life sciences, oil and gas and government. The Seattle-based company is financed by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Atlas Venture, Madrona Venture Group and Focus Ventures. For more information, please visit: http://www.isilon.com/.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is transforming the communication business with its online blogging network for technology, media and entertainment insiders, establishing it as a leader in the Open Media revolution. Borrowing from the underground traditions of blogging and social networking, AlwaysOn (http://www.alwayson-network.com/) was launched in 2003. Today, AO's annual Summit @ Stanford and OnHollywood events, print "blogozine" and online services encourage direct collaboration between global thought leaders and technology insiders. No other media brand has dared allow such openness amongst its readers and participants. AlwaysOn, LLC, is a privately held and virtually headquartered company born out of the heart of Silicon Valley.

NOTE: The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Isilon Systems

CONTACT: Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621, or
lucas.welch@isilon.com; or Louise Tipton, or Andy Oliver, both of Lewis PR,
+1-415-992-4400, or onh@lewispr.com, for OnHollywood

Web site: http://www.alwayson-network.com/

Web site: http://www.isilon.com/

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