SEATTLE, April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon® Systems today announced that the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) at Shenzhen has deployed more than one petabyte (PB) of Isilon scale-out NAS to power one of the world's largest DNA sequencing environments. Working with one of China's leading IT integrators, United Electronics Co., Ltd., BGI is using Isilon's X-Series, featuring its OneFS® operating system, to unify more than 100 Illumina Genome Analyzers onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage. With Isilon IQ, BGI has achieved previously unattainable levels of data performance for its research team, increasing productivity across a vast array of initiatives to accelerate time-to-discovery, while reducing capital and operating expenses.
