Industrial Color Deployed EMC Isilon

EMC Corporation announced that Industrial Color, which invented the
online digital photo workflow and supports clients including Victoria’s Secret,
NBC Universal, Kohls, Showtime Networks, Kate Spade, and Warner Bros, has
deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform for its range of file and media sharing, editing and delivery services, including
a range of multimedia services.

Using EMC’s Isilon S-Series and
X-Series, Industrial Color has created a single, shared storage platform for
its file transfer, file sharing, and content editing workflows, accelerating
media access and distribution for its global client base, while simplifying big
data management to less than a fraction of one full-time equivalent (FTE). With
Isilon, Industrial Color has consolidated a variety of file-based applications
onto a flexible, easy to use storage infrastructure, enabling the media
production and software leader to create new client service offerings, while
simultaneously expanding its bandwidth for increased customer demand.

"Today’s major creative production organizations are
generating enormous amounts of content, making big data the new status
quo," said Aaron Holm, Vice President of Development, Industrial Color.
"Our customers are creating, editing and distributing content at
capacities and speeds never before possible. 
With Isilon, we’ve been able to seamlessly unify and scale our storage
infrastructure in lockstep with business growth, giving us both a competitive
advantage and a significant reduction in IT complexity."

Big Data Drives Need for Change

Industrial Color’s services include GLOBALedit, which
connects users to work-in-progress photo and video content via an online
portal; FileSociety, a hosted service providing file transfer for
clients to move content around the globe; Digital Capture, technical staff and
services for demanding digital photo shoots; and Motion production, full HD
video capture, editing, and color grading. Prior to deploying Isilon,
Industrial Color’s traditional NAS and RAID array systems couldn’t scale to
keep pace with its rapidly evolving business, limiting the company’s ability to
expand its client service offerings and complicating IT management.

Scaling Out Business with Isilon

To support customer demand for its GLOBALedit
service, Industrial Color deployed the Isilon X-Series, creating a single,
shared storage resource for clients around the world to access work-in-progress content without downtime, interruption or risk of data
loss. Following the success of GLOBALedit, Industrial Color created a new
service in FileSociety, again using the Isilon X-Series as the storage platform
to provide concurrent performance for data transfer
operations. Building on the first two successful deployments, Industrial Color
then deployed the Isilon S-Series to unify video assets for its Motion
production workflow, providing high transactional performance for its video
rendering and editing applications. With Isilon as the storage foundation for
Industrial Color’s range of file-based workflows, the company has been
able to scale its business into new services and opportunities, all while
reducing the costs of big data management. 

"Big data necessitates levels of data performance,
capacity and movement throughput the workflow that far exceed the abilities of
traditional NAS," said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon.
"Industrial Color is not only a pioneer in digital photo and video
services, but represents an answer to a common enterprise question: how to
access, store and move lots of data between separate users and groups? By using
Isilon as the storage foundation for its range of leading-edge services,
Industrial Color is demonstrating that no matter your big data challenge,
Isilon is the solution."