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Isilon Included in Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker

SEATTLE, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced the company has been included for the first time in IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, a quantitative tool for analyzing the global disk storage market. Isilon is one of 13 vendors analyzed across a number of key business and product metrics for the fourth quarter of 2009.

"The results of IDC's Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker make it clear that in the midst of a challenging economic environment, enterprise demand for storage capacity actually increased, even though IT departments are continually being asked to do more with less," said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon Systems. "Isilon's unique 'pay as you grow' scale-out NAS architecture enables enterprise businesses do exactly that - increase mission-critical application and workflow performance, while simultaneously reducing capital and operational costs. Our first-time inclusion in the IDC tracker is further validation that this model is rapidly gaining traction in the marketplace."

Isilon scale-out NAS delivers increased performance for file-based data applications and workflows, from the highest performance, I/O-intensive applications, to primary and secondary storage, to nearline archives, all from single file system architecture. Powered by its OneFS® operating system, Isilon IQ creates a unified pool of highly efficient storage providing at least 80 percent storage utilization, enabling enterprise businesses to reduce capital and operational costs, while maximizing the value of their mission-critical information.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) is the proven leader in scale-out NAS. Isilon's clustered storage and data management solutions drive unique business value for customers by maximizing the performance of their mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon enables enterprises and research organizations worldwide to manage large and rapidly growing amounts of file-based data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective way. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com.

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