Wiredrive Deploys Isilon

Isilon Systems, Inc. announced that Wiredrive has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its web-based, rich media presentation platform. Using Isilon’s X-Series, powered by its OneFS operating system, Wiredrive has consolidated content hosting, archiving and creation on a single, shared storage resource, simplifying data management to accelerate productivity and reduce capital and operating costs.

With Isilon, Wiredrive can scale capacity and performance in-line with business growth, enabling its engineers to innovate without storage resource limitations and deliver best-of-breed solutions to Wiredrive’s growing customer base.

"Changes in rich media formats, presentation mediums and design techniques are advancing almost as quickly as our business, so our storage infrastructure needs to be flexible and prepared for growth at a moment’s notice," said Mitch Bassett, Chief of Operations, Wiredrive. "Isilon gives us on-demand performance and capacity, with very little hands-on management, so we can focus on innovation and growth and not on storage limitations."

Wiredrive provides advertising and entertainment clients with a customer-branded, web-based application platform for sharing and presenting work-in-progress and final projects. Prior to using Isilon, Wiredrive’s open source, clustered storage system complicated storage management and slowed application performance, limiting Wiredrive’s engineering workflow and business operations. By deploying Isilon scale-out storage to consolidate its operations, Wiredrive has improved storage performance 3X, driving increased workflow productivity, while simultaneously reducing storage management to less than an hour per week.

"Wiredrive’s unique solutions accelerate productivity for rich media-driven organizations by simplifying the process of sharing and presenting content online," said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon. "Similarly, by using Isilon to simplify data and storage management, Wiredrive has freed its engineers to innovate without limitation and continue accelerating its business growth."