Avid Continues in Media Shared Storage With Isis 7500

Avid Technology, Inc. introduced the ISIS 7500 online shared storage system, offering real-time editorial collaboration and hight storage capacity and performance for large-scale broadcast and post-production environments.

It provides new capabilities to help large media organizations easily and efficiently deliver higher quality, inspiring content by streamlining and accelerating editorial workflows.

“Media organizations are facing relentless pressure to increase content production while simultaneously improving operational efficiency and controlling costs,” said Chris Gahagan, SVP of products and services, Avid. “With double the storage capacity of ISIS 7000, ISIS 7500 brings high capacity and performance to large-scale facilities, ensuring the real-time workflows needed to accelerate production and complete projects faster.”

ISIS 7500, the successor to ISIS 7000, provides scalability; support; performance; an open workflow-centric platform; protection; and real-time collaboration.

Specific features and benefits include:

Greater capacity and scalability – A 128TB configuration, powered by the new i8000 storage blade and ISIS 4.6 software, enables media organizations to scale the system with up to 3PB of raw storage (double the capacity of ISIS 7000).
Performance – Through patented technology, ISIS ensures client media due times, delivering predictable performance and more media streams per ISIS engine in editing-intensive environments. As client counts increase, ISIS sustains real-time multistream performance across the system.
Real-time collaboration – With ISIS shared storage, content creators and contributors can work together, sharing the same media assets facility-wide or everywhere with Interplay Sphere-to turn around projects faster. Connect and collaborate with up to 330 others simultaneously with ISIS 7500. The system provides scalable, highly protected, real-time editorial workflows.
Protection – HA hardware design with no single point of failure. With patented data distribution and redistribution technology, ISIS 7500 maintains real-time performance in the event of a disk failure with automatic drive rebuild, giving media organizations peace of mind in demanding media production environments.
Open, workflow-centric platform – ISIS was built with the media production workflow in mind. It integrates with AirSpeed 5000 ingest/playout, Interplay asset management, Avid editing systems, and Pro Tools audio production, accelerating the end-to-end workflow. It also welcomes third-party applications and servers, enabling integration into existing infrastructures.
Support for HD and high-res files – With support for real-time SD, HD, and other high-resolution media, ISIS is a hub for the modern media production workflow. Store vast amounts of source footage and make it readily available to everyone, everywhere.
TCO – With the new high-performance, higher capacity ISIS storage blades available in ISIS 7500, which provide 128TB capacity, facilities can optimize performance, scalability, and storage density at a more affordable price. More importantly, the i8000 storage blades lower TCO, delivering twice the storage capacity of their predecessors (with raw storage of up to 3PB), using the same physical footprint as smaller capacity configurations-without requiring any increase in power consumption, cooling, cabling, or other operational expense.