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December 12, 2005

Isilon Clustered Storage Deployed by MySpace.com

Isilon Systems announced that MySpace has made an initial deployment of 20TB of Isilon IQ clustered storage to meet the substantial media consumption demands of its more than 40 million members. With explosive growth in its number of users and their time spent on the site, MySpace has rocketed to the third ranked site in terms of page views in October 2005, according to comScore Media Metrix. In order to accommodate the 24x7 user consumption of its wide ranging catalog of media content and user profiles, MySpace selected Isilon IQ clustered storage to provide the extreme levels of scalability and performance needed to fuel its growth while dramatically reducing IT administration and costs.

"Our media delivery and storage needs are tripling every year and this presented a challenge for our traditional storage systems," said Aber Whitcomb, CTO of MySpace. "Isilon IQ is a critical part of our infrastructure -- the performance, scalability and cost savings we realize with Isilon IQ will help fuel the next wave of our development."

MySpace switched to Isilon IQ clustered storage to support both music label and user-generated streaming and downloadable media programming. Originally using legacy SATA arrays, MySpace quickly found that their traditional storage systems could not accommodate the exponential growth of their data storage. Using Isilon IQ clustered storage, MySpace was able to unify its entire catalog of media programming into one single file system, providing unmatched flexibility to seamlessly scale capacity to meet rapid growth while recognizing dramatic cost savings and, critically, realizing true operational leverage of its IT staff.

"MySpace is experiencing unfathomable levels of growth, both in users and in media content, providing a perfect example of the massive growth of digital content and unstructured data driving explosive stores of data in both the consumer and enterprise markets," said Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing and business development at Isilon Systems. "Isilon IQ has enabled MySpace to leave behind its cumbersome legacy storage systems in favor of a revolutionary new storage architecture designed from the ground up for highly scalable, performance-driven businesses."

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