Isilon for Media Companies

EMC Corporation announced at the
NAB Conference that EMC Isilon continues to
be a scale-out NAS solution for media organizations’
broadcast and production storage needs.

Isilon has helped some of the biggest media companies take
control of their storage. By consolidating silos, streamlining processes and
simplifying the ability to adapt to dynamic workflows, media and entertainment
companies have benefited from increased data performance and capacity.
Streamlined management and planning have also allowed companies to cut costs
and future-proof their investment in Isilon and in their own long-term growth.

Livestream LLC, the
provider of live event streaming, needed a storage solution to scale with its
rapidly growing user demand, and to accelerate the performance of its
data-intensive broadcasting operations. Through Isilon, it has
scaled storage nodes to meet increasing capacity needs while reducing IT
management time and operating costs. 

Neoscape, Inc., an industry 3D
visualization services provider, uses Isilon’s NAS to
manage its growing volumes of rich media, empowering artists and designers to
share and collaborate. It has increased the speed to access files
fourfold, providing customers with faster response time. The founder, Nils Norgren explained the process: "EMC Isilon has given us a powerful and integrated system and has
enabled us to increase throughput by 400%, with a greatly simplified
architecture."

The Associated Press, the global news
wire, deployed Isilon NAS in January 2012, to support the Big
Data demands of its HD video production and archive workflows. It was able
to simplify IT management, accelerate content access and scale to meet capacity
and performance needs – all while lowering storage and IT costs. "With EMC Isilon, we don’t have to
compromise capacity for performance – we can grow both simultaneously. EMC
Isilon has given us a competitive advantage over other content providers,
something that is more important than ever in today’s media climate,"
said Don Merrick, the AP’s storage and backup services manager.

Corus
Entertainment, Inc., Canada’s integrated media and entertainment
company, uses Isilon for a storage management solution, allowing
the company to focus on creating content, not managing or storing it. "Corus owns 37 radio stations, and
brings specialty and pay television programming to audiences across Canada. Our
storage architecture needs to be fast and flexible," said Kevin
Harkins, engineering supervisor, Corus Entertainment. "The EMC Isilon system gives us a single
solution that takes care of storage management so that we can focus our efforts
on developing great content."

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., global publisher, was feeling the
pressure facing the publishing industry to increase rich-media content creation
and struggled to find the right storage solution to manage this newly created
content. The company deployed Isilon NASacross
eight global locations to replace its cumbersome and disjointed IT
infrastructure, streamline data access and reduce management costs.  "Since working with EMC Isilon, we
no longer have to worry about storing or managing our digital files. As a
company that’s been around for over 200 years, we are used to thinking
long-term. We trust Isilon will go the distance with us," said James
Sample, director, WAN Performance & Reliability at Wiley & Sons.