Digitalsmiths Powers Digital Media Platform With Isilon

Isilon Systems, Inc. announced that Digitalsmiths has deployed the Isilon IQ 36NL to archive its entire repository of media content from many of today’s leading Hollywood studios, broadcasters and distributors. Using Isilon scale-out NAS, featuring its OneFS operating system, Digitalsmiths has unified its massive, previously disparate media stores onto a single, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, streamlining data access without requiring any daily system management or maintenance. With the breakthrough economics of the 36NL, which offers the best dollar per terabyte ratio of any scale-out NAS solution available, Digitalsmiths has reduced costs while simultaneously increasing storage capacity to achieve greater operating leverage for its business.

"Our clients trust us with their most valuable asset – their media content – and as such that content must be immediately accessible, no matter what," said Matt Berry, CTO, Digitalsmiths. "However, they pay us to diversify their media distribution opportunities, not store their content, so we need a storage system capable of scaling to meet customer demand with minimal impact on our budget. Isilon’s combination of scale and cost-efficiency fit the bill."

Digitalsmiths provides the media and entertainment industry’s only studio-grade, digital media analysis, operations and publishing solution, enabling media companies to distribute and publish video content across multiple platforms and access new revenue streams for premium media assets. Using the Isilon IQ 36NL, Digitalsmiths has created a single, highly scalable, easy-to-use archive for all client content – from initial ingest to metadata analysis to published formats – simplifying its workflow to speed data access and reduce system management. With the 36NL’s near-primary storage performance delivered at near-tape prices, Digitalsmiths can cost-effectively accommodate rapidly growing demand for its solution without additional capital expense, driving increased revenue and customer acquisition

"The next generation of digital media is taking place all around us, with companies like Digitalsmiths leading the charge into this new era of on-demand content for your mobile phone, computer screen and TV," said Sam Grocott, senior director of product management, Isilon Systems. "By using Isilon IQ as the backbone of their groundbreaking media platform, Digitalsmiths is demonstrating that when it comes to next-gen media, Isilon is the only choice."