GLOBALedit With Isilon IQ

Isilon Systems announced that GLOBALedit, the software and services unit of Industrial Color, has standardized its global image management platform on Isilon IQ clustered storage.

GLOBALedit is a professional online image management system that provides global access to massive photo collections and a suite of workflow tools that connect creative and business communities. Using Isilon IQ, GLOBALedit has unified its multi-format image management and distribution onto a single, high-performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, providing immediate, reliable access to its massive data stores while significantly reducing IT cost and complexity.

"GLOBALedit connects creative production groups in ways previously impossible, enabling individual photographers and enterprise photo production teams alike to realize the power of a fully digital workflow," said Aaron Holm, Vice President of Development & Integration, Industrial Color. "With production and distribution spread across the globe, our image management software must be able to quickly and efficiently ingest photo shoots containing 500GB to image libraries consisting of upwards of 25 Terabytes. A highly scalable, reliable and easy to use storage system is crucial to the success of our business."

Using GLOBALedit, image collections are globally available for editing, talent approval, image distribution, contact sheet creation, image markups and retouching notes, FPO and layout creation, metadata services, distribution and fulfillment, and long-term archiving. Prior to using Isilon clustered storage, traditional storage systems did not provide the scalability, reliability or data access necessary to efficiently manage its rapidly growing library of customer-generated content. Using Isilon IQ, GLOBALedit is able to access and deliver its content from a single point of management, accelerating data access while saving valuable time and resources. Additionally, using Isilon’s SyncIQ® and SmartConnect software applications, GLOBALedit is able to seamlessly replicate data to a disaster recovery site while also ensuring content is automatically load-balanced across its clusters with minimal administrative oversight. GLOBALedit has also deployed two additional Isilon IQ clusters for near-line archival and disaster recovery, ensuring all its core, business-critical data is available and online 24x7x365.

"As digital content becomes the dominant form of data within the enterprise, the business opportunities associated with this transformational shift are available to all businesses — large and small — with the tools and vision necessary to maximize the value of their critical data," said Steve Fitz, Senior Vice President of Global Field Operations, Isilon Systems. "GLOBALedit is at the forefront of this revolution as its services provide businesses with a robust platform to turn their growing image repositories into new revenue streams."

Powered by OneFS, Isilon IQ delivers the industry’s first single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly growing stores of digital content, eliminating the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures. OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon’s award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems, including the Isilon IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, 9000, 12000, Accelerator, and EX 6000, 9000 and 12000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications including SnapshotIQ, SmartConnect, SmartQuotas, MigrationIQ, and SyncIQ that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data management.