BANGALORE, INDIA: EMC Corporation today announced a new single file system, stated to be the largest, with the introduction of EMC Isilon’s new IQ 108NL scale-out NAS hardware product.

Leveraging three terabyte (TB) enterprise-class Hitachi Ultrastar drives in a 4U node, the 108NL scales to more than 15 petabytes (PB) in a single file system and single volume, providing the storage foundation for maximizing the big data opportunity, a comany release said.

EMC also today announced Isilon’s new SmartLock data retention software application, delivering immutable protection for big data to ensure the integrity and continuity of big data assets from initial creation to archival. By combining Isilon’s new NL-Series product with the recently announced OneFS 6.5 operating system, and S200 and X200 scale-out NAS hardware products, enterprise businesses can create a complete, end-to-end storage platform for big data workflows, simplifying management and achieving maximum IT efficiency and flexibility.

“Enterprises are dealing with large and fast growing sources of data or information, but their real challenge will be finding ways to better analyze and capitalize on all this information. Successful exploitation of 'Big Data' depends upon the deployment of a simple, scalable, and highly flexible storage foundation at the core of the data center,” said Richard Villars, vice president, Storage and IT Executive Strategies at IDC. “Solutions like Isilon's new scale-out NAS products deliver the performance, scale, and simplicity required to support big data workloads and enable real-time analysis.”