JCA With Isilon IQ

Isilon Systems, Inc. announced that JCA.tv, a service provider to the UK film and television industry, is using Isilon scale-out NAS to power its range of digital asset management services for clients including BBC Worldwide, NBC Universal and many other leading media companies.

Using Isilon IQ, JCA.tv has unified its transcoding, encoding, metadata management and digital distribution operations onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, streamlining its workflow to accelerate project delivery and stay ahead of customer demand. With Isilon scale-out NAS, JCA.tv can scale performance and capacity on-demand, providing a flexible, cost-effective platform to power the development of new services and the acquisition of new business.

"For us, the content is the driver," said Simon Kay, managing director, JCA.tv. "We needed a storage system that delivered high performance and data security, while minimizing the IT side of the business, so we could focus on managing assets for our clients. While the limitations of traditional SAN and NAS systems were considerable, Isilon’s solution reduced costs and enhanced performance. Although it might sound like a cliche, Isilon does exactly what it says on the box."

Prior to deploying Isilon scale-out NAS, JCA.tv experienced degrading performance issues with its traditional NAS system, especially as client demand for higher definition content continued to increase. With 2000 hours of digital media assets being processed each month, JCA.tv needed a solution capable of reducing project delays and management overhead being caused by its previous NAS system.

Working with Boxer Systems, an Isilon channel partner, JCA.tv deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage solution for its digital media solutions, which deliver encoding, transcoding and distribution services for some of Europe’s largest broadcasters. Using Isilon IQ, featuring its OneFS operating system, JCA has been able to complete more projects in less time, increasing its bandwidth for new business, while significantly reducing storage management time and costs.

"In today’s media industry, the key to success is diversifying the ways in which audiences can consume and access entertainment," said Mark Stevens, vice president and general manager, EMEA, Isilon Systems. "JCA is leading the way for Europe’s largest media companies to do just that. By using Isilon scale-out NAS to maximize the revenue potential of their clients’ content, JCA is demonstrating the dramatic performance and cost-reduction benefits Isilon delivers for the next generation of media services."