Isilon Systems, which builds storage systems with special software designed for companies that save large files, including digital images and other media formats has received US$ 20m in venture capital. A three-box cluster of Isilon's storage system can hold 14.4 terabytes of data (a terabyte is 1 trillion bytes of data). The system can be expanded to hold up to 168 terabytes in a single network drive. Founded in 2001, Isilon has raised US$59.9 million to date. The current round - the company's fourth - was led by Focus Ventures.
Following our report in last month's DCN, further details have emerged relating to Telehouse Europe's exit from the German colocation market. Its 3 facilities were sold to e-shelter, the Frankfurt based data centre operator. This now leaves Telehouse Europe with two facilities in Paris (rue des Je?neurs and Blvd. Voltaire) and three in London, with two in the Docklands on Coriander Avenue (13,470 sqft) and one in the City on Clifton Street. The sale of the German company follows on from the sale almost a year ago of Telehouse's Geneva facility to IXEurope.
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