Calling the Isilon acquisition “a coup for the company” Joe travelled to Seattle to open the new Isilon Centre of Excellence in Pioneer Square.
Isilon grew over 100% year over year in the last quarter it’s true scale out single file system design moved beyond the Big Data verticals the company started in and into the mainstream horizontal NAS market. Isilon is a technology everyone wins with. I’m going into more and more accounts and watching as it consolidates & replaces groups of old era clustered Active/Active NAS controllers. I’m seeing Isilon growing in the field as it happens and it’s picking up speed.
EMC is heavily funding Isilon development and what’s coming is incredibly sexy. By increasing EMC’s investment in Seattle, home of Microsoft, Amazon.com and the University of Washington, not only is Joe keeping the Isilon engineering team intact but he’s looking to greatly expand the EMC team from Seattle’s talent pool and create new jobs in the Seattle area.
