EMC Isilon data protection software safeguards data assets to meet availability and business governance requirements.
EMC Isilon SmartConnect
EMC Isilon SmartConnect software helps you meet the demands of an always-on, 24x7 world of rapidly growing data storage requirements. With its intelligent, automatic client-connection load balancing and failover capabilities, SmartConnect optimizes storage performance, provides a highly available data environment, and simplifies storage management.
Optimize performance
SmartConnect automatically rebalances NFS client connections to your Isilon storage cluster, thereby optimizing storage system performance so you can deliver high performance and a consistently positive user experience.
High availability
SmartConnect supports dynamic NFS failover for Linux and UNIX clients to prevent interruptions to users and applications. In the event of a node failure, SmartConnect will seamlessly failover across all other nodes in the cluster. This ensures that all in-flight reads and writes are handed off to another node in the cluster to finish operation without any user or application interruption.
Scalability and simplicity
With SmartConnect, you can easily scale and manage large numbers of clients and nodes in a rapidly growing, computing-intensive environment. Clients and storage nodes can be added and the cluster scaled on the fly while a system is in production, making Isilon with SmartConnect the industry’s most flexible, powerful, and easy-to-manage clustered storage solution.
EMC Isilon SmartLock
EMC Isilon SmartLock helps you protect your critical data against accidental, premature, or malicious alteration or deletion. Because SmartLock is a software-based approach to write-once, read-many (WORM) data protection, you can store SmartLock-protected data alongside other data types in your Isilon scale-out storage environment with no effect on performance or availability, and without the added cost of purchasing and maintaining specialty WORM-capable hardware.
Data security options
SmartLock operates in either an Enterprise mode or a Compliance mode. The Compliance mode provides an extra level of protection against malicious modification of data by disabling logins by the root user. This way, you can meet regulatory compliance requirements to provide absolute retention and protection of business critical data—including stringent SEC 17a-4 requirements.
Flexible and efficient data protection
With SmartLock, you can protect your data at the directory level and thereby eliminate the wasted space and complexity of managing WORM protections across multiple devices or volumes. SmartLock also offers you the flexibility to set customized default retention times on a directory-level basis or to set customized retention times for specific files.
EMC Isilon SnapshotIQ
EMC Isilon SnapshotIQ provides a simple, scalable, and flexible way to enable enterprise-class, point-in-time data protection and recovery for scale-out storage. SnapshotIQ can be used as a cornerstone of your big data protection strategy as it allows you to make frequent, low-impact, user-recoverable backups of files.
Simple, scalable data protection
SnapshotIQ supports a highly scalable number of snapshots throughout an Isilon storage cluster and up to 1,024 snapshots per directory. This provides you with massive scalability and data protection for your large and growing data environment. Because SnapshotIQ is also globally coherent and spans across all nodes regardless of the cluster size, you can administer snapshots from a true single point of view, giving you unmatched flexibility and ease of use.
Automatic data protection
With SnapshotIQ, you can automatically back up data as frequently as required to meet your recovery point objectives. Experience little to no performance impact on users, regardless of the size of the file system or directory being snapshot or the level of production activity on the cluster.
Fast, secure backup and recovery
Benefit from an extremely fast snapshot capability (typically less than one second to create) and near-immediate data restoration to easily meet your aggressive recovery time objectives. Since SnapshotIQ retains the security of the file within the snapshot, restoration is both secure and simple.
EMC Isilon SyncIQ
EMC Isilon SyncIQ offers powerful, flexible, and easy-to-manage asynchronous replication of data for collaboration, disaster recovery, business continuance, disk-to-disk backup, and remote disk archive. Designed for big data, SyncIQ delivers highly parallel replication performance at scale. Every node in an Isilon cluster can send and receive data, and SyncIQ can take advantage of any available network bandwidth so that replication actually gets faster the larger your data store grows.
Disaster recovery
Leverage high-performance, asynchronous replication of data to address a broad range of recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs). With fast, push-button simple failover/failback, SyncIQ increases availability and helps you reduce RPO and RTO for your critical applications. SyncIQ supports both local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) for replication over short or long distances, providing protection from both site-specific and regional disasters.
Online delivery of content
SyncIQ enables you to improve bandwidth utilization, minimize costs, and increase speed of end-user access by distributing content across multiple networks, data centers, and geographic locations.
Disk-to-disk backup
SyncIQ delivers a superior disk-to-disk backup-and-restore solution with unmatched performance and simplicity, enabling IT organizations to reduce data backup and restore costs, eliminate complexity, and minimize risk.