Initial Coverage: OneFS 6.0, SmartPools and InsightIQ Launch

Yesterday, Isilon announced the sixth generation of the OneFS® scale-out storage operating system and two new data management software applications — SmartPools™ and InsightIQ™.

Here’s what some industry watchers are saying:

Dave Raffo, SearchStorage.com: Isilon OneFS adds tiering, analytics to scale-out NAS operating system

Glen Dickson, Broadcasting & Cable: Isilon Aims to Simplify Mass Storage

Matthew Weinberger, The VAR Guy: Isilon Launches Enterprise Data Management Solutions

Dave Simpson, Infostor: Isilon puts multiple tiers under one file system

Randi Altman, Post Magazine: Isilon’s Sixth-Gen OneFS System Available Soon

Chris Mellor, The Register: Isilon bellyflops into Smart Pools: Storage maker clusters scale-out clusters

Sam Grocott

About the Author: Sam Grocott

Sam Grocott is the Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Dell Technologies. He leads the marketing activities for all infrastructure and client solutions and the services portfolio, including critical GTM activities across the portfolio, such as AI, APEX & Multicloud, Edge, Telecom, portfolio marketing and competitive intelligence. Sam began his career at Isilon Systems in 2001, where he led product management and helped launch Isilon's first products in 2003. After EMC acquired Isilon in 2010, Sam headed the marketing and product management team that delivered the market-leading scale-out NAS offering. When Dell acquired EMC in 2016, Sam's role expanded to cover the Dell Infrastructure Solutions portfolio for Marketing. The organization evolved to represent the entire Dell Technologies portfolio a few years later.