Fuji Film Deploys Isilon IQ to Power Internet Digital Imaging Service

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Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:10pm EDT

Fuji Film Museum and Shop Uses Clustered Storage to 'Protect Culture of
Photography' and Provide Users With Access to Famous Images From Many of the
World's Most Renowned Photographers

SEATTLE, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems
(Nasdaq: ISLN), the leader in clustered storage, today announced that Fuji
Film has deployed Isilon IQ clustered storage to power the Fuji Film Museum
and Shop located at http://www.fujifilmmuseum.com.  To "protect the culture of
photography," Fuji Film's online digital imaging service enables users to
access and purchase valuable works of art, featuring famous images from the
world's most renowned photographers.  With Isilon IQ, Fuji Film has unified
its vast collection of valuable digital images into a single,
high-performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage to meet the intense
performance, scale and reliability requirements of its 'always-on' operations.
    The "Fuji Film Museum & Shop" displays a multitude of images by acclaimed
professional photographers, as well as works submitted from competitions and
from the general public.  By transforming its museum into a
publicly-accessible website, Fuji Film enables visitors to access its vast
collection of photography from anywhere in the world for purchase and
distribution.  With Isilon clustered storage, Fuji Film has consolidated its
massive library of digital images onto one, easily scalable, easy-to-use
storage system, eliminating disparate silos of information and maintaining the
highest levels of reliability and performance in content access.
    "As the Internet continues to be a driving force in the distribution and
consumption of media, innovative companies are maximizing the economies of
scale available through the worldwide web to advance their businesses," said
Steve Fitz, Senior Vice President Worldwide Field Operations, Isilon Systems.
"Fuji Film's Museum and Shop is a perfect example of how businesses can
leverage the Internet to distribute more media -- and reach more consumers --
than ever before."
    Powered by OneFS(R), Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single file
system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly
growing stores of unstructured data digital content, eliminating the cost and
complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures.  OneFS is a unified
operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon's award-winning
family of IQ clustered storage systems, including the Isilon IQ 200, 1920,
3000, 6000, 9000, 12000, Accelerator, and EX 6000, 9000 and 12000.  Isilon
also provides a robust suite of software applications including
SnapshotIQ(TM), SmartConnect(TM), SmartQuotas(TM), MigrationIQ(TM), and
SyncIQ(R) that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest
levels of data protection and automated data management.
    About Isilon
    Isilon Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) is the worldwide leader in clustered storage
systems and software for digital content and unstructured data, enabling
enterprises to transform data into information -- and information into
breakthroughs.  Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems
combines Isilon's OneFS operating system software with the latest advances in
industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow,
enterprise-class storage systems.  Isilon's clustered storage solutions speed
access to critical business information while dramatically reducing the cost
and complexity of storing it.  Information about Isilon can be found at
http://www.isilon.com.
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SOURCE  Isilon Systems

Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621, lucas.welch@isilon.com
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