Avid Customer of Xyratex OneStor Storage Solution

Xyratex Ltd. announced Avid Technology, Inc. as a new customer for the Xyratex OneStor storage solution.

Avid combines the OneStor hardware foundation with Avid ISIS software to deliver its high density data storage solution for media enterprises.

The ISIS 2000 enables cost effective near line storage for accessing and managing media beyond active production.

ISIS 2000is a near-line storage solution that works with Avid Interplay to provide enterprise-wide search, browse, access, and management of media that expands media access and augments real-time production.

Situated between online production storage and archive, this high-density, disk-based storage system lets customers extend their media library and optimize their overall storage investment while maintaining direct workflow linkage with editorial production.

Built for large-scale media storage, ISIS 2000 makes more assets readily available for reuse and is backed by Avid support and professional services.

"Media-intensive creative and broadcast environments require superior back-end storage – large capacity, ultra-reliability, high performance and the ability to scale out as needs dictate," said Kevin Usher, director of Media Enterprise, Avid. "The OneStor storage solution from Xyratex is the ideal storage application platform to serve these needs, and it makes our software that much better and more valuable to our customers."

"In just five rack units, the Avid implementation delivers 240TB of raw storage capacity, along with all the performance, enterprise reliability and scalability that our storage systems are known for," said Ed Prager, SVP at Xyratex. "The best-in-class storage and compute density of this solution has already produced cost-of-ownership benefits for a multitude of industries, and Avid represents another exciting vertical segment that will realize great value from deploying it."