Isilon to Present at Xconomy Forum on Healthcare and Information Technology

SEATTLE, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced that President and CEO Sujal Patel is presenting at the Xconomy Forum: How Information Technology is Transforming Medicine and Healthcare, taking place at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA, today, Wednesday, May 12. The event will explore how information technology can solve inefficiencies in modern medicine and healthcare to enable greater collaboration and discovery.

"IT innovation is poised to help power a shift toward personalized medicine, in which an open, shared knowledge-base of medical research enables the development of more effective -- and less costly -- individualized treatments," said Sujal Patel, CEO of Isilon Systems. "Isilon is committed to leveraging insights we've gained from working with a wide range of leading-edge life sciences organizations to accelerate the shift toward personalized medicine and drive better, more efficient healthcare."

Isilon's scale-out NAS solutions help organizations like the Beijing Genomics Institute, the Broad Institute, the J. Craig Venter Institute, the Personal Genome Project and many more accelerate time-to-discovery, while reducing capital and operating expenses. To read more about Isilon's solutions for life sciences and bioinformatics, please go here.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) is the proven leader in scale-out NAS. Isilon's clustered storage and data management solutions drive unique business value for customers by maximizing the performance of their mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon enables enterprises and research organizations worldwide to manage large and rapidly growing amounts of file-based data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective way. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com.

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