Avid Isis | 2500 and Isis 4.7 Software Available

Avid Technology, Inc. is shipping the ISIS | 2500 nearline shared storage system and ISIS 4.7 software package, which together deliver storage capacity and performance for broadcast and post-production environments.

Features and benefits of ISIS | 2500 :

Expanded capacity and scalability – Featuring a choice of new 160 and 320TB engines, it delivers expanded capacity to streamline media production. As storage needs grow, customers can scale capacity by employing up to five ISIS | 2500 Engines for a possible total of 1.6PB of raw disk-based nearline storage, offering cost efficiency when combined with ISIS | 7500 or ISIS | 5500.

Open and flexible workflow – It was built with the media production workflow in mind. It integrates with AirSpeed 5000 ingest/playout servers, interplay asset management, and media composer | software, accelerating the end-to-end workflow. It also welcomes third-party applications and servers, enabling integration into existing infrastructures.
Access to media assets everywhere – Whether team members are on premises, reside in other parts of the world, or working on location, everyone can access and share media on ISIS | 2500 when used with Interplay | Production, Avid MediaCentral | UX, or Media Composer | Cloud, extending real-time production everywhere. Web-based ISIS administration and management tools make set-up and scaling workgroups easy.
Centralized media repository – ISIS | 2500 supports any and all media files, enabling organizations to store content from a variety of media sources and find needed assets later. It’s possible to store proxies or multiple versions of a project for different channels of delivery, and maintain a library of historic clips, stock footage, and commonly used assets.
Protection – With RAID-6 protection against two concurrent disk failures, it offers dual-parity protection.
Single search capability – Search for assets across multiple storage tiers when using ISIS | 2500 within an Interplay workflow. With the Media | Index module for the media suite, customers can search for, audition, and move clips and sequences across multiple Interplay databases, both local and remote, regardless of where the assets are stored.

ISIS 4.7 Software

Shipping with the latest ISIS systems and available to existing ISIS customers through a software upgrade, it offers the following capabilities:

Supports high-res media across all ISIS systems and 2K/4K and Ultra HD collaborative workflows with ISIS online systems

Supports real-time, collaborative high-res workflows with third-party creative applications, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Autodesk Smoke, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, and Apple Final Cut Pro X
Doubles ISIS | 5500 and ISIS 5000 storage capacity by increasing support for up to 12 storage engines each (up from six)

Introduced in April at the 2014 NAB Show as part of the Avid Storage Suite , ISIS | 2500 helps broadcast and post organizations create, deliver, and monetize higher-quality, inspiring content through more collaborative and efficient workflows, including 4K workflows.

Operating on the open, extensible, and customizable Avid MediaCentral Platform , it provides scalability, performance, media access, sharing, and protection that media organizations and broadcasters depend on to deliver content to consumers everywhere, on multiple screens.

ISIS | 2500 is available.

Pricing for ISIS | 2500 (with 160TB ISIS engine, system director with software license, and expertplus hardware support) starts at $139,000.