Isilon Systems, the leader in clustered storage, today announced at NAB that Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (NYSE:CCU) has deployed Isilon IQ at multiple locations in North America and Europe as the primary storage platform for its radio station websites and creative services groups. Clear Channel, a global leader in media and entertainment, is using Isilon IQ and Isilon’s SyncIQ™ replication software to streamline its file-based storage, power the 24x7 operation of more than 1,100 radio station websites, and replicate files between multiple data centers in North America and Europe for disaster recovery purposes.

“Given the global nature of our business, we are constantly looking for cost-effective methods to streamline our workflow and enhance the services we deliver,” said Greg Robinson, Solution Architect, Clear Channel Communications. “We are amazed by the simplicity and performance of Isilon IQ as well as the ease with which we are able to replicate files between data centers using SyncIQ. Isilon’s products offer significant cost savings, allow us to add capacity without downtime and ultimately enable us to better concentrate on what matters most – delivering compelling programming to our hundreds of millions of listeners and viewers.”

With Isilon IQ, Clear Channel has been able to centralize its storage architecture, store information with unparalleled reliability, simplify data management and growth, and replicate files using Isilon SyncIQ for disaster recovery preparedness. In addition to using Isilon IQ as the primary storage for its radio station websites, Clear Channel is also using Isilon IQ to streamline the workflow at its award-winning Creative Services Group in Atlanta, GA and to centralize all of its international content at its European datacenter. Isilon IQ’s unique, “pay as you grow” architecture, high performance and capacity scalability, and unprecedented ease of use, enables Clear Channel to maximize its resources, accelerate its production workflow and to deliver the highest quality media to its customers.

“Isilon IQ provides Clear Channel with the unsurpassed ability to power its 1,100 radio station websites on a 24x7 basis while streamlining its global production workflows,” said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. “Isilon IQ was designed from the ground up to address the unique characteristics of unstructured data and to deliver unparalleled levels of flexibility, control and scalability that are just not possible with traditional storage systems.”

Powered by OneFS 4.0, Isilon IQ delivers the industry’s first single file system that unifies and provides unprecedented access to the exploding stores of unstructured and file-based information, eradicating the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures currently constraining enterprises. Isilon’s award-winning Isilon IQ family of clustered storage systems – the Isilon IQ 1920, 3000, 4800, 6000, Accelerator and EX 6000 – are powered by Isilon's award-winning OneFS® 4.0 distributed file system software.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon is the leader in clustered storage. Isilon's award-winning family of Isilon IQ products consists of high-performance clustered storage systems that combine an intelligent distributed file system with modular industry-standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability. Isilon IQ was designed for unstructured data and for use in data-intensive markets such as media and entertainment, digital imaging, life sciences, oil and gas and government. The Seattle-based company is financed by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Atlas Venture, Madrona Venture Group and Focus Ventures. For more information, please visit: http://www.isilon.com.