Avid 64TB ISIS 5500 for SMBs Starting at $27,000

Avid Technology, Inc. introduced its ISIS 5500 online shared storage system, offering value for SMB’s post production, broadcast, education, and corporate facilities.

The next-generation ISIS 5500 represents the continuing innovation of the company’s standard storage systems. It provides new capabilities to help small and mid-sized media organizations more easily and efficiently deliver higher quality, inspiring content – by streamlining and accelerating editorial workflows.

"Media organizations of all sizes are facing relentless pressure to increase content production while simultaneously improving operational efficiency and controlling costs," said Chris Gahagan, senior VP of products and services, Avid. "With double the storage capacity and a host of new software features, ISIS 5500 brings both critical capabilities and breakthrough value to small- and mid-sized facilities."

ISIS 5500, the successor to ISIS 5000, provides scalability; performance; media access, sharing, and protection; and real-time collaboration. The new 64TB engine doubles storage capacity at the same price point as the ISIS 5000 32TB system, delivering the value that media organizations require. Further, Avid will continue to offer a 32TB system at a 25% reduced rate.

Specific features and benefits include:

Scalability
A 64 TB capacity that complements the existing 16 and 32TB engines provides efficient, linear bandwidth scaling to sustain performance, making it easy to scale workgroups, bandwidth, and capacity. Media organizations can connect up to 90 content contributors at the same time, and scale workspaces and storage from 16TB to 384TB of raw storage, with up to six ISIS Engines and 1.8GB/s of bandwidth.

New ISIS 4.5 software

• Also available to existing ISIS 7000, 5000, and 2000 customers via a simple software upgrade, ISIS 4.5 software provides:
• Real-time access, editing, and sharing ISIS-stored media using Red Hat Linux 6.2-compatible applications
• Connectivity to ISIS online and nearline storage using Windows 8 clients
• Increased file count, with up to eight million files for ISIS 5500
• Enhanced File Gateway service to share all workspaces
• ISIS 2000 scalability – to five engines for up to 1.2PB of nearline storage
• Failover protection with support for dual system directors in ISIS 2000

Real-time collaboration
Allows media organizations to connect their creative professionals in distributed and complex workflow environments, enabling contributors throughout the facility-or around the world using Interplay Sphere-to work together using the same media assets.

Integration and more open workflow
Provides production efficiency and flexibility with integration with the AirSpeed ingest and playout server, Avid Interplay asset management, and Avid editing workflows. With support for many third-party applications, including Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere, users can integrate ISIS 5500 into existing infrastructures.

Reliable performance
Delivers the same simultaneous media access, dynamic storage allocation, and reliable linear scaling as ISIS 7000, while intuitive, web-based system management tools provide a reliable way to store assets, accelerate editorial, and scale capacity, access, and bandwidth.

Support for HD and high-res files
Enables media organizations to house a vast amount of SD, HD, and other high-res content from a variety of sources and make it available everywhere.

Interoperability
ISIS 5500 family of products use the ISIS file system and is backward compatible with existing ISIS systems. ISIS 5500 engines can be added to existing ISIS 5000 storage systems providing investment protection.

Availability and Pricing
ISIS 5500 will be available worldwide in September 2013 with pricing starting at $27,000.

ISIS 4.5 software is available since September 17, 2013. Customers with an Avid Advantage ExpertPlus or Elite support plan can upgrade to ISIS 4.5 anytime by logging in to their Avid master account.