EMC is known for its excellence in the information storage industry. Remaining relevant for over 30 years is no small feat in this industry, so it’s no wonder they acquired Isilon Systems, a provider of scale-out NAS technology, late last year for $2.25 billion. The deal has panned out well for EMC, as the latest benchmark measurements indicate that EMC Isilon S200 scale-out NAS platform achieved record performance results, more than double that of their competitors.

Maintaining high standards is important for EMC as it scales out its services to meet the growing demands of today’s customers.  A recent report, from none other than EMC, indicates that the world’s data will double every two years.  That’s 1.8 trillion gigabytes (or approximately 27,000 years’ worth of tweets), every other year, putting an increasing strain on storage, data transfer and access.

Earlier this month EMC proclaimed that the Isilon S200 scale-out NAS system is the revolutionary industry performance leader based upon an independent benchmark measurement testing by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).  It delivers over 1.6 million CIFS IOPS with over 85 gigabytes per second (GBps) of aggregate throughput in just one single file system.

“We are all very excited about this achievement. The results are fantastic,” said Sujal Patel, President, EMC Isilon.

“On a per file system basis, we are 1710% faster than our closest competitor in CIFS IOPS and 176% faster than our closest competitor in NFS IOPS. The SPECsfs 2008 results are further validation of our competitive performance advantage for file-based workflows.”

The Isilon S200 was announced in April 2011. Getting started with Isilon’s S-Series of clustered storage services, the S200 gives much better throughput performance and increased storage capacity over its predecessor, the IQ S-Series 5400 model. The S200 is developed for modern transaction-intensive enterprise situations as well as the high-throughput demands of modern applications just like real-time social media, custom made medicine, email and Electronic Design Automation.

EMC technologies have given many of its customers all the satisfaction they need. The Isilon S200 just proves its worth, being in the top of line of system storage offerings that are helpful to each big enterprise in accelerating their business and increasing their speed-to-market with extremely quick primary storage, mission critical, high transactional and random access file based applications.

In other EMC news, the company is also moving is former NetApp’s channel chief, Leonard Iventosch, to a new position. On July 1, Iventosch will take over as the new vice president of Americas channel sales at EMC, replacing Gregg Ambulos. While Gregg Ambulos who has been managing both worldwide and America’s channel sales for EMC, will eventually become the senior vice president for global channel sales.

“It’s one thing to be at Isilon, which competes against NetApp in a lot of deals and NetApp competes against Isilon in a few deals, and another thing to be at EMC. Before I joined EMC, I didn’t realize the quality of the people here” says Iventosch.