The Score Television Network and TVA Have Adopted Isilon NAS

Isilon Systems, Inc.  announced that The Score Television Network and TVA have adopted Isilon’s scale-out NAS solutions to unify their digital broadcasting workflows and maximize revenue opportunities associated with the proliferation and diversification of media content formats and delivery channels. Working with Isilon channel partner Applied Electronics, the broadcasters deployed Isilon IQ – which creates a single, high performance, highly scalable shared pool of storage – to accelerate workflow productivity and time-to-delivery while reducing capital and operational expenditures.

The Score is a leading sports-only television network, providing sports, news, information, highlights and live event programming to more than 6.4 million homes across Canada. Prior to using Isilon scale-out NAS, The Score’s tape-based storage system was unable to provide consistent, immediate access to its content archive, slowing production and delivery across its many distribution mediums. With Isilon IQ, The Score has created a single, highly scalable repository for the majority of its broadcast content, significantly increasing workflow efficiency while reducing storage management costs.

"As consumer demand for an expanding range of professional sports content continues to grow, so too does the public’s desire to access this content through a wide variety of formats," said Oliver Gayagoy, vice president of broadcast and information technology, The Score. "At The Score, we strive to meet this need through our multiple delivery channels, which means our storage solution has to support instantaneous, fault tolerant content access and on-demand scalability. Using Isilon, we can utilize content reliably and quickly, enabling us to better meet consumer demand and expand our revenue opportunities."

TVA is Canada’s leading French-Canadian private broadcasting company, providing standard- and high-definition French-language programming across Canada. TVA’s previous, tape-based content archive created unnecessary content silos and prevented TVA from unifying its content acquisition, editing, and play-out workflow onto a single storage architecture. By deploying Isilon IQ, TVA has created a central content repository powering all media acquisition and editing operations, accelerating its production workflow while providing an immediately accessible staging area for media delivery.

"Our production workflow is unique in its use of internally created French-language content, as well as externally acquired content repurposed for our French-speaking audience," said Richard Baril, director of engineering, TVA. "From initial ingest, through editing, to play-out, we simply can’t afford downtime or delays if we are to deliver content in step with consumer demand. Isilon enables us to significantly accelerate our content acquisition and editing operations, allowing us to do more with less and stay ahead of changes in viewers’ tastes."

"We are currently witnessing a sea change in the way digital media is being created, managed, and delivered and consequently, new technologies are required to meet the insatiable demands of today’s media consumer," said Jim Goessinger, manager of sales and marketing, Broadcast & Post Production, Applied Electronics. "Isilon IQ scale-out NAS is designed specifically to meet the unique demands of digital content creation, editing and delivery, making it an ideal solution for next-generation broadcasters looking to extract maximum value from their content."