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Next summer in Beijing, NBC is primed to deliver the first-ever television broadcast of the Olympic Games available completely in High Definition. Following NBC's successful use of Isilon IQ for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, NBC is storing the majority of the 2008 Beijing Games proxy and broadband content on Isilon clustered storage, providing NBC producers with unprecedented, highly reliable access to critical content for rapid review, identification and selection operations necessary to quickly produce and deliver groundbreaking coverage of Beijing Olympics in the United States.

"In order to deliver the unprecedented coverage of the Beijing Olympics, we need a storage solution that can reliably deliver unparalleled access to content for our broadcast team, both on-site in Beijing and at our multiple broadcast centers in the United States. Having used Isilon IQ for each of the past two Olympic Games, we know it will once again provide all we need to successfully execute our broadcast in Beijing."
-- Craig Lau, VP of Technology, NBC Olympics

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Kodak EasyShare Gallery combines intelligent organization and sophisticated picture sharing into a single innovative online service. Kodak EasyShare Gallery selected Isilon IQ clustered storage systems to simplify their storage architecture and respond to their rapidly expanding customer base and ever growing image resolutions.

"At Kodak EasyShare Gallery, our customers trust us to safeguard their pictures and we use Isilon IQ to help us do that. The simplicity and performance Isilon IQ offers is fantastic and it is a great tribute to Isilon's ease of use that we have added hundreds of terabytes of capacity while only adding one junior level administrator, which would not have been possible with our legacy systems."
--Sonja Erickson, VP of Technical Operations for Kodak EasyShare Gallery

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Storage Networking World Video Case Study: Kodak EasyShare Gallery - Storing and Sharing More than 1 Billion Images for 23+ Million Users

NASA’s World Wind project is an online application that lets site users zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets users experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D. With Isilon IQ, NASA World Wind consolidated its massive collection of Landsat 7 satellite images into one, single global namespace, simplifying its workflow and enabling immediate, 24x7 access for fast, online delivery.

"By using a vast collection of processed satellite imagery, NASA World Wind enables anyone with Internet access to experience anyplace on Earth as if they were really there. To ensure that our online user's experience is seamless and compelling, we require storage that delivers high concurrent performance for processing the raw satellite data, as well as immediate, reliable access for fast online delivery."

--Patrick Hogan, Project Manager, NASA World Wind

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Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Company (NYSE: UTX), is a global leader in the design, manufacture and support of aircraft engines, gas turbines and space propulsion systems and uses Isilon IQ clustered storage as the primary storage system for its gas turbine engine test facilities.

"The use of clustered storage produces meaningful improvements in our jet engine testing. Isilon IQ has enabled us to streamline our testing analysis and appreciably reduce costs while maintaining our uncompromising commitment to safety and quality."

--Dr. Zbigniew Grabowski, Engineering Information Technology Program Manager for Pratt & Whitney

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XM Satellite Radio, the nation's leading satellite radio service with more than 7.6 million subscribers, is using Isilon IQ as the primary storage platform to help power its broadcast operations. XM Satellite Radio has deployed Isilon IQ to support the creation, management, delivery and archival needs of its entire catalog of entertainment content.

"Our immense content delivery operations -creating significant growth of our storage capacity needs - necessitate a storage solution that provides unparalleled simplicity and scalability to ensure our critical media content is immediately available, at all times. Isilon clustered storage delivered above and beyond what we required."

-- John Archer, VP of Operations, XM Satellite Radio

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LexisNexis, a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, uses Isilon IQ to store millions of legal documents through its rapidly growing online LexisNexis File & Serve application. LexisNexis required a storage system that could scale easily and reliably as the total number of files stored grows by an estimated 50,000 every day. The reliability and scalability of Isilon IQ gives File & Serve customers greater control over delivery, management and cost of both filing and service.

"With its combination of modular, building-block scalability and extremely simple management, Isilon IQ performed well from the start and is an ideal storage system for our mission-critical revenue generating applications."

--Evans Roth, Vice President of Operations for Emerging Markets, LexisNexis

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center , at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute uses a combination of Isilon IQ, IQ Accelerators and EX expansion nodes to store and analyze its clinical research data. The Prostate Cancer Center selected Isilon clustered storage to support its critical and potentially life-saving research because it allows the Center to create a centralized, highly reliable, easily managed and highly scalable storage architecture that seamlessly supports its leading-edge cancer research initiatives.

"The advances in technology coupled with the sheer amount of data that we can effectively correlate for our studies enable us to find new ways to fight cancer. Isilon IQ clustered storage is very easy to manage and its scalability enables us to continually add new data points to our studies. The more targeted our research is, the more lives we may ultimately be able to impact in positive ways."

--Dr. David B. Agus, M.D., Research Director at the Cedars-Sinai Prostate Cancer Center including its Clinical Outcomes Project

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NPR is a client of Isilon Systems and has deployed Isilon IQ as the central repository for its digital audio. Isilon IQ is consolidating NPR content into one scalable shared pool of data to power the NPR Podcasts and NPR's online media streaming operations, approximately 22,000 hours of digital audio. Isilon IQ, with its OneFS operating system software is helping NPR centralize its digital audio storage, access critical content immediately and reliably and simplify data management and growth. Additionally, Isilon SyncIQ replication software enables NPR to protect content for disaster recovery preparedness.

FilesAnywhere.com made headlines in 2006 when Mark Cuban announced ownership in the private company. With its first version released in 1999, FilesAnywhere.com is one of the original online file storage sites, providing web-based file storage, computer backup and file collaboration for consumers and corporate users. FilesAnywhere offers backup and online file collaboration for both consumer and corporate users.

Penn Virginia Corporation (NYSE:PVA) is an energy company engaged in the exploration, acquisition, development and production of crude oil and natural gas. Isilon clustered storage enables Penn Virginia to reliably store massive amounts of vital data and enhance its seismic interpretation workflow, while dramatically reducing the risk of data loss

"In the oil and gas industry, 3D seismic data is the driving force of our business for exploring and developing oil & gas reserves in the Gulf Coast. Our ability to interpret this data is the lifeblood of our business and therefore its availability and security are crucial to drilling successful wells. Being located in Houston, with hurricane threats and the amount of time spent by IT to ensure all critical data is safe, we knew we needed new and better methods for protecting and accessing this critical information. We evaluated a number of products and Isilon clustered storage was the clear choice. Isilon IQ is a turn-key solution that has enabled us to reliably secure massive amounts of valuable data, allowing us to cost-effectively streamline our business processes while sleeping better at night."

-- Gary Bailey, Director of IT for Penn Virginia.

HiRISE, currently orbiting Mars onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), is an advanced digital imaging project led by the University of Arizona. HiRISE is focused on collecting groundbreaking, high-resolution images of Mars’ terrain to deepen scientists’ understanding of the planet’s evolution, and assist in planning future Mars missions and landings. With Isilon IQ, the USGS Astrogeology Research Program is able to efficiently and cost-effectively consolidate all its HiRISE images – with file sizes often exceeding 2 GB – into one, single global namespace and file system, delivering unmatched scaling of capacity and performance to meet the rapidly growing storage demands of their massive digital imaging data sets.

“With the advances in photographic telescopes and aerial cameras, the digital images we are able to capture with HiRISE are unique in their incredibly high resolution and complexity, thereby creating visual depictions of Mars in much greater detail – and file size – than ever before. We found that only Isilon clustered storage was capable of cost-effectively and efficiently storing this type of digital imaging data, as it delivers the unparalleled scalability of capacity and performance we require to store, process and analyze our valuable imagery of Mars and its terrain.”

-- – Chris Bradshaw, Senior Engineer, USGS Astrogeology Research Program

NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies, has chosen Isilon IQ to archive and access growing stores of media programming including, entertainment TV and production, movies, news, and sports. Under a multi-year agreement with Isilon, NBC Universal plans to deploy multiple Petabytes of Isilon IQ clustered storage in its main production and broadcast operations to maximize the value of their media assets across NBC Universal's media properties.

"With the rapid move to digital media and broadband connections, the broadcast industry has forever changed. This shift in the broadcast paradigm - multiple distribution channels, formats, and consumption models - has resulted in massive increases in the amount and importance of archived media. It is not enough to simply store this content; it must also be always on-line and instantly accessible. Isilon IQ is uniquely architected to address the business needs of NBC Universal, enabling us to transform our digital media assets into new breakthroughs in the creation, management and delivery of high-quality programming."

-- David Evans, Director, Storage Solutions, Global Operations NBC Universal

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The Austin Radiological Association selected Isilon IQ to serve as the foundation of a PACS (Picture Archiving Communications System) designed to detect and combat breast cancer and that will soon contain more than 80,000 diagnostic images, each reaching sizes in excess of 100MB. By implementing Isilon IQ, ARA has been able to dramatically simplify its architecture and unify all of its mammography images into one, single, scalable, shared pool of data, all while significantly reducing the cost and maintenance associated with its storage infrastructure.

"Storage is clearly a core component of our PACS system and we chose Isilon clustered storage because it provides the scalability, ease of use, performance and enterprise-class availability that we require to transform diagnostic imaging into new breakthroughs in patient care."

--Todd Thomas, CIO, Austin Radiological Association

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Tricon Geophysics, Inc. is using Isilon IQ to unify vast stores of seismic data into one, seamlessly expandable, shared pool of high performance storage to streamline workflows and dramatically accelerate seismic processing operations in the global race to discover new sources of energy.

"The individual productivity of each of our geoscientists is our most important metric. Utilizing Isilon clustered storage improves that metric and helps give Tricon a competitive edge. Tricon is poised for substantial growth over the next five years and we need a solution that offers us the speed and ease of use that the Isilon provides."

--John Contino, Executive VP, Tricon Geophysics

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Sony Pictures Imageworks, an Academy Award®-winning, state-of-the-art visual effects and character animation company, uses Isilon IQ clustered storage for their work on major motion pictures and computer-animated films.

"At Sony Pictures Imageworks, we need all files to be available 24x7 from a single pool of storage. We're using one Isilon IQ cluster in production and are also testing a 20-node 45 terabyte Isilon IQ cluster with Isilon's latest OneFS 3.0 distributed file system. We have been very impressed with the simplicity and performance of the system."

--Dean Miya, Director of Systems Research & Development for Sony Pictures Imageworks

Discovery Communications, Inc. is using Isilon IQ clustered storage as a central repository for media content, which is delivered to more than 100 networks, reaching 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 170 countries and territories. With Isilon IQ, Discovery is able consolidate its video-on-demand (VOD) and DVD content, as well as content restored from its tape archive, into one, easily expandable pool of always-online content storage, enabling instant, 24x7, configuration and delivery of media through its multiple distribution channels including broadcast, video on-demand and the Internet.

"As the number-one nonfiction media company in the world, Discovery Communications faces the ever-present challenge of managing and storing its vast library of digital media assets. The nature of our workflow necessitates storage that can not only scale capacity and performance quickly and without any network interruption, but is also easy to manage. Isilon IQ delivered on all fronts."

-- Tony Cole, Vice President, Engineering, Discovery Communications

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Brigham Exploration is a pioneer in the field of data interpretation used to help discover oil and gas reserves. Brigham uses Isilon IQ clustered storage to unify its vast libraries of seismic data into one, easily scalable and shared pool of data. By combining Isilon IQ with its Schlumberger GeoFrame seismic data interpretation application, Brigham Exploration is able to significantly reduce costs, increase productivity and provide its users and high-performance applications with instant and unfettered access to massive amounts of seismic data.

"New technology advancements used in the collection of seismic data for oil and gas exploration have enabled the creation of advanced 3D and 4D models that have unprecedented levels of detail - a wealth of information that has overwhelmed our legacy storage systems. Isilon clustered storage has dramatically reduced the time and resources required to manage our data and has allowed us to refocus vital resources towards interpreting the data and delivering results to our management and partners."

-- David Kirchhoff, Manager of Information Technology for Brigham Exploration.

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ABC uses Isilon IQ for the storage and management of thousands of digital dailies and graphics for television programs and news operations.

"We are impressed with Isilon IQ's ability to scale quickly as our projects increase while maintaining constant availability. The end result of the Isilon IQ implementation is a marked improvement in the time it takes to produce content and deliver breaking news."

--Preston Davis, President of ABC Broadcast Operations and Engineering

i-cubed is a geoprocessing service organization that offers complete business solutions based on information and geodata derived from air photos, satellite imagery and other sources of geographic information. i-cubed works with NASA to process the raw satellite imaging data captured by Landsat 7 to create NASA World Wind, a groundbreaking, virtual globe enabling online users to virtually visit anyplace on Earth.

"Landsat 7 satellite images offer a unique combination of resolution and coverage which make them an excellent fit for rich, 3D, global visualization applications such as World Wind. Isilon clustered storage provided the high concurrent performance and immediate data access we required to complete the World Wind data set processing. The data-intensive nature of imagery, coupled with the throughput demands of parallel processing across more than 150 CPU's, required the type of scalability and performance that Isilon provided. The Isilon IQ cluster enabled us to complete the data set and deliver it back to World Wind in record time, and Isilon support throughout the project was absolutely first rate."

--Mick Garrett, Chief Technical Officer, i-cubed.

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by over 4 million people from around the globe.

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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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Arcis Corporation, a leading provider of seismic processing for oil and gas industry, is leveraging Isilon clustered storage to achieve an amazing 10-fold increase in the delivery of seismic data and services in oil and gas exploration. Using Isilon IQ, powered by Isilon's OneFS® operating system software, Arcis has unified its vast stores of seismic data into one, easily scalable and shared pool of data that for the first time meets the extreme concurrent data performance requirements of its 850-node clustered computing server farm.

“In the ever-intensifying and expanding search to discover new, extractable sources of oil and gas, rapid and accurate analysis of seismic data is the key to gaining a competitive advantage in this high-stakes race and feeding massive consumer demand. In order to maximize the value of our vast library of seismic data and deliver the deepest and most accurate analysis possible to our customers, we require storage with unparalleled concurrent performance, ease of use, simplicity and scalability. Isilon IQ delivered as advertised.”
-- Rob Howey, Senior VP, Arcis Corporation

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Sports Illustrated deployed Isilon IQ as the central storage system for all digital photographs — an estimated 500,000 images — taken by its photographers at the 2004 Summer Olympic games in Athens.

"By going 100 percent digital for the first time in Olympic history, we are seeing phenomenal increases in the quality of our photos and at the same time saving millions of dollars. We chose Isilon IQ as the heart of our new digital storage infrastructure because it allows us to simply, reliably and economically store our digital photos, and can scale to enable us to produce the most breathtaking Olympic coverage in the history of SI."

--Phil Jache, Deputy Picture Editor for Sports Illustrated

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Storage Networking World Video Case Study: How Sports Illustrated Saves Millions of Dollars With Clustered Storage

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MySpace has grown to be one of the busiest sites on the Internet in just two years. Isilon IQ's modular clustered storage solutions support MySpace's huge volume of traffic, and allow it to easily respond to increased user uploads and media streaming. With 24x7 operations serving users across the globe, MySpace needs to modularly add capacity and performance with simple plug-and-play installation.

"Our media delivery and storage needs are tripling every year and this presented a challenge for our traditional storage systems. Isilon IQ is a critical part of our infrastructure - the performance, scalability and cost savings we realize with Isilon IQ will help fuel the next wave of our development."

--Aber Whitcomb, CTO, MySpace

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Storage Networking World 2006 Video Presentation: The Storage and Technology Powering the MySpace Generation

Kelman Technologies Inc., is a publicly traded Canadian technology company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol KTI with offices in Calgary, Houston, Oklahoma City, Denver and Toronto. KTI provides client companies from 45 countries around the world with a full suite of technology solutions in seismic processing and online data archival and data management services.

"We require highly scalable and reliable storage systems to store and analyze seismic data for our oil and gas customers. Isilon IQ clustered storage offers unsurpassed reliability, scalability and ease of use that enables us to perform our analysis more efficiently."

--Brad Stephens, Manager of IT Infrastructure for Kelman Technologies

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Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (NYSE:CCU) has deployed Isilon IQ at multiple locations in North America and Europe as the primary storage platform for its radio station websites, creative services groups and corporate email archiving. Clear Channel, a global leader in media and entertainment, is using Isilon IQ and Isilon’s SyncIQ™ replication software to streamline its file-based storage, power the 24x7 operation of more than 1,100 radio station websites, replicate files between multiple data centers in North America and Europe for disaster recovery purposes and archive its corporate email.

"Given the global nature of our business, we are constantly looking for cost-effective methods to streamline our workflow and enhance the services we deliver. We are amazed by the simplicity and performance of Isilon IQ as well as the ease with which we are able to replicate files between data centers using SyncIQ. Isilon’s products offer significant cost savings, allow us to add capacity without downtime and ultimately enable us to better concentrate on what matters most – delivering compelling programming to our hundreds of millions of listeners and viewers."

--Greg Robinson, Solution Architect for Clear Channel Communications.

UCLA Laboratory of Neurological Imaging (LONI), one of the foremost neurological research centers in the U.S., is using Isilon clustered storage to power critical research advancing the scientific understanding of the human brain. UCLA's LONI is using Isilon to store the worlds largest the world's largest repository of high resolution neuro imaging data.

“We recognized some time ago that as imaging resolution continued to improve, our storage requirements would grow geometrically, putting a significant strain on our storage capabilities as well as impeding our researchers' ability to gain instant access to this critical information. Quite simply, there was no way we could keep up with our data requirements at the rate we were growing. We evaluated several storage solutions and Isilon came out far ahead of the pack due to its inherent scalability and system redundancy. Best of all, whereas it used to take four days to add storage to our SAN, we can now add Isilon nodes in about 10 minutes, without any system downtime.”

-- Rico Magsipoc, Chief Technology Officer, LONI

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GlobeXplorer®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC), combines advanced maps from a diverse set of sources with satellite and aerial imagery, allowing users to replace costly and time consuming onsite visits and research using paper maps with the simplicity and power of mouse clicks. GlobeXplorer has provided its flexible subscription-based services to leading internet portals such as Mapquest.com, Maps.com, National Geographic, ADT, real estate companies, and U.S. Government agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Census Bureau and the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

"GlobeXplorer provides its customers with the most detailed, affordable and accurate views of the planet so that our customers have the information they need to make better and faster decisions. Managing reference information is a core component of our business, and Isilon's clustered storage solutions allow us to revolutionize the services we provide to our customers while significantly cutting the costs associated with storing our extremely large and rapidly growing data sets."

--Rob Shanks, President of GlobeXplorer LLC

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SEI is using Isilon IQ, powered by Isilon's OneFS® operating system software, to unify more than 30,000 total miles of 3D seismic imaging data into one seamlessly expandable pool of high-performance storage. Using Isilon IQ, SEI has dramatically accelerated the delivery of its vital stores of seismic information, providing its customers with a competitive advantage in the high-stakes race of oil and gas exploration.

"Seismic data literally fuels oil and gas discovery, as it provides critical information that underpins the ability to efficiently and cost-effectively locate and extract new oil and gas reserves. As a seismic data provider, we must be able to access our data sets immediately and reliably, 24x7x365, and then process it quickly and accurately to provide our customers with the highest quality information to drive their operations. With Isilon IQ, we know our data is always available and secure, enabling us to focus on growing our business and stop worrying about storage management."

-- Scott Custer, Infrastructure Manager, Seismic Exchange

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"Isilon clustered storage enables us to achieve our ambitious goal of a large scale, open architecture, file-based production environment. Isilon IQ is unique in its ability to provide heterogeneous access to large volumes of storage with the levels of performance, scalability and reliability that we require in a 24x7 media operations environment."

--Jeff Mayzurk, Vice President of Technology, E! Networks

San Diego Supercomputer Center is using Isilon IQ in a project to power new breakthroughs in scientific visualization and analytics applications, enabling University of California San Diego Cancer Center scientists to gain deeper insights into their research while accelerating the discovery process. SDSC, which resides within the top ten percent of the Supercomputing 500 (http://www.top500.org/), is a world leader in using, innovating and providing information technology to enable advances and new discovery in science and engineering across the academia, industry and the scientific community.

“Today, the line between real world applicability and scientific theory continues to fade as technological advancements and scientific knowledge unite to take scientific insight beyond the laboratory and into much broader arenas of comprehension and analysis. SDSC provides cutting-edge technology and expertise to extend the reach of science and continue to advance scientific accomplishments, and Isilon clustered storage forms part of a web-based, Cellular Imaging Portal for cancer scientists.”

-- Dr. Steve Cutchin, Manager, Visualization Services, SDSC

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Current is a global television network that gives you the opportunity to create and influence what airs on TV.

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RenewData is a leading provider of information governance solutions to include compliance, preservation archiving, and electronic evidence services for corporations and law firms that need strategic proactive and immediate reactive solutions for audits, ediscovery and investigations. RenewData uses Isilon IQ clustered storage for all facets of its data storage needs -- including ingest, analysis and archiving.

“In 2005 RenewData processed more than seven petabytes of information – literally trillions of pages – for a variety of customers including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium businesses, financial services and law firms. Our technical team looked at six different systems and after a thorough evaluation determined that Isilon IQ was the right solution. Isilon IQ plays a critical role in helping us to accelerate loading, searching and sorting the ever-increasing troves of data we process every day.”

-- Steven Nygard VP of Operations for RenewData

Paramount Digital Entertainment uses Isilon IQ as their primary networked storage to develop and bring to market new digital media products and services from Paramount Television's library of over 55,000 hours of programming, including hit shows like Cheers, Frasier, I Love Lucy, and the Star Trek franchise.

"Isilon IQ gives us a flexible solution that meets our unique storage requirements for the production, content delivery and archiving of our vast library of digital assets. No other network storage solution meets these requirements and is as simple to set up and administer."

--Ted Tiaga, Executive Director of Technology, Paramount Digital Entertainment

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"At American Title we provide our customers with the most comprehensive and customized real estate information products available on the market so they can make informed decisions more quickly with reduced analytics costs. Isilon IQ clustered storage allows us to consolidate our vast, and previously disparate, repositories of property documents drawn from many sources, easily scale capacity, automatically replicate data and achieve significant cost savings."

--Paul Christiani, Chief Information Officer for American Title

Dailymotion is about finding new ways to see and show the world. What's a movie good for, if it's stuck on your video camera, hard drive or mobile phone... So open up and share your videos with the world!

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University of California Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) houses the world’s largest geographically referenced data libraries. Premier ADL collections include digital elevation maps of the United States, imagery from more than eight hundred expeditions by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and world maps from the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

“Isilon IQ offers the unsurpassed ability to centralize, manage and easily grow our vast repository of images and geographically referenced data. With Isilon IQ we are making more content available online than ever before, reducing management overhead, and easily sharing data over the Internet with our partner libraries and patrons around the world.”

--Larry Carver, Director of Library Technologies and Digital Initiatives, University of California Santa Barbara Davidson Libraries

Movielink selected Isilon IQ clustered storage for its leading online movie download service offering U.S. broadband customers an extensive selection of recently released films and classic movies covering every genre, from action, comedy, drama, family and romance to sci-fi, horror and thrillers. The service is owned and operated by Movielink, LLC, a joint venture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Bros.

"Consumers are increasingly turning to the Internet for top-quality digital video entertainment. In response, content owners are making more and more content available to those consumers through Movielink. Our infrastructure must keep pace with this growth in order to best serve both our content partners and our consumers. With Isilon IQ's clustered solution, the time spent maintaining this storage has dropped almost to zero! We can now focus our resources toward other critical IT efforts needed to continue to drive our success."

--Bruce Anderson, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Movielink

The San Bernardino County Recorder is leading the way for a digital government by making records available at the click of a mouse almost immediately after their filing with the Recorder’s Office

"Isilon IQ serves as the primary storage repository for all land title, birth, marriage, and death records for the entire county. The system effortlessly integrated with our FileNet document management system, and its clustered architecture and SyncIQ™ replication software provide a high degree of reliability and scalability.”

-- Patrick Honny, Departmental Information Systems Manager for the County of San Bernardino Auditor-Controller/Recorder's Office

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IMEEM is an online community where artists, fans & friends can promote their content, share their tastes, and discover blogs, photos, music and video.

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Launched at the beginning of year 2000, PhotoBox was the first online photo sharing and printing service in UK and Ireland and has grown to be the market leader.

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Technicolor, the leading processor of motion picture film worldwide and a leading provider of creative/post-production, cinema distribution and digital cinema services, uses Isilon IQ as their network storage system for digital color timing for major feature films.

The Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology (IRIS) made an initial 60 terabyte purchase of the Isilon IQ 6000 to accelerate the collection and delivery of its seismology data stores. IRIS, supported by the National Science Foundation, other federal agencies, universities and private foundations, is dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data.

"The IRIS Data Management Center receives several tens of terabytes of new seismic data annually on a continuous and uninterrupted basis from more than 1000 seismic stations around the globe. We needed a storage solution that would minimize the administrative burden and allow us to expand the system capacity with a minimum amount of interruption. The intelligence built into the Isilon IQ 6000 product allows us to do exactly that and we will be able to reduce our operating costs and greatly simplify our storage management. Most of our future storage growth will be directed toward the Isilon storage solution."

-- Tim Ahern, IRIS Data Management System

JumpTV Inc. (AIM, TSX: JTV) is the world's leading broadcaster of television over the internet. With nearly 300 channels from 70+ countries, JumpTV delivers its subscribers news, sports and entertainment content on a real-time basis from all corners of the globe.

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University of Washington Medical Center uses a 7.2 TB Isilon IQ cluster for a single pool of disk-based shared storage for large files as well as secure general purpose file sharing among several leading Northwest Hospitals, including Harborview Medical Center, Children's Hospital and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

"As the information technology provider for several leading hospitals, we can't afford to take risks with any products in our data center, especially our storage systems. Isilon IQ is a robust, secure storage product that requires minimal manual intervention, and I have peace of mind knowing Isilon's excellent customer support organization is always behind me if we ever need them."

--Fred Peet, Technical Manager, IT Services, Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center

A video-sharing platform built the way the internet really works. We support the free and unlimited sharing of media. Our unique technology tracks and monetizes videos as they spread virally across the web, so no matter where your creativity travels, you benefit... the viral video network that pays. We connect video makers and sharers with sponsors in a free and open marketplace that rewards them for doing what they do best... committed to the artist. You have something to say and we built our network to empower you to say it.

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A full-service animation company based in Dallas, Texas, DNA Productions, Inc. has produced, directed and written award-winning animation since 1987. In addition to the Oscar® nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius feature film and subsequent TV series, some of the company's notable projects include animation on the Emmy-nominated holiday special Olive the Other Reindeer and on the Christmas special, Santa versus the Snowman. DNA deployed Isilon IQ in 2005 as the primary storage for its cutting edge Linux computational rendering farm.

"We looked at nearly every SAN and NAS storage system and ultimately selected Isilon IQ because it allows us to deliver better results, more quickly and with less cost."

--Brian Chacon, DNA Productions

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Ascent Media uses Isilon IQ clustered storage at its R!OT Santa Monica facility to provide some of the most technically advanced digital audio and video post production services for leading film studios, broadcasters and television producers.

"Isilon IQ's scalability, simplicity of management and cost effectiveness all come together to provide a very compelling package, one that ensures painless deployment of NAS storage, with no compromise to performance."

--Phil Mendelson, Chief Technology Officer, Ascent Media Creative Services Group

Rhythm and Hues is the largest privately held facility of its kind in Los Angeles and a creative home for hundreds of artists and staff. Academy Award ® winning Rhythm & Hues is a groundbreaking force in the design and production of quality character animation and visual effects for feature films, commercials, theme park attractions, music videos and interactive games.

"We first purchased an Isilon IQ cluster nearly a year ago, and have been very impressed with its performance in our mission-critical productions. The new Isilon IQ 1920i with InfiniBand is a huge leap forward - its performance and scalability required no network infrastructure changes and will ultimately help us to compete for and win more major feature film business."

--Mark Brown, vice president of technology for Rhythm and Hues

The Dallas Cowboys selected Isilon IQ to handle their ever-growing stores of complete NFL game footage and detailed statistical analysis. In a high-pressure environment in which every second of preparation counts and the slightest insight can mean the difference between victory and defeat, the Cowboys rely on Isilon clustered storage to deliver “game changing” performance and reliability.

“The Dallas Cowboys have always sought to provide our coaches and players with innovative, forward-looking tools that give them every possible advantage before they ever take the field on game day. By working with Isilon, we have given our coaching staff an invaluable tool in the weekly race to analyze our upcoming opponent and develop a winning game plan.”
--Jerry Jones, Owner and General Manager of the Dallas Cowboys

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CinemaNow uses Isilon IQ clustered storage to rapidly add new titles, encode them in a multitude of formats and easily manage their growing library of video programming from more than 200 licensors including 20th Century Fox, Disney, MGM, Miramax, Sony, Warner Bros. and Lions Gate Entertainment.

"The tremendous consumer appetite for full-length, feature programming over the Internet has created a real business opportunity for studios to supply vast amounts of their premium content in multiple formats for purchase online. As consumption of movies and other video programming increases, the importance of storing and managing this content is a critical business consideration. Isilon IQ clustered storage successfully enables us to address our business needs and make more titles available faster, more reliably and economically than ever before."

--Bruce Eisen, President of CinemaNow

Research Channel, a leading organization dedicated to digitally broadcasting scientific, medical and educational video to universities and corporations around the world, uses a 10 terabyte Isilon IQ cluster for delivery of streaming video programs over the Internet. Research Channel also uses Isilon IQ to store digital video for HDTV, digital cable, standard television and radio broadcasts.

"Prior to Isilon, we had individual pockets of storage, no central management tools, a lot of headaches and a lot of wasted time from our administrators running around. Now we have a 10 terabyte Isilon IQ cluster that stores a range of digital content for Internet, standard television, HDTV and radio. The best part is it takes far less than one admin to manage it."

--James DeRoest, Director of Streaming Media Technologies, ResearchChannel

Densho (meaning "to pass on to the next generation") is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization founded with the initial mission of preserving the life histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Densho uses Isilon IQ clustered storage for capturing, preserving and providing immediate access to visual histories of those affected by World War II internment.

"The digital assets and video interviews we collect are critical resources for us. Isilon IQ has vastly simplified our storage architecture and helps us to never say no to a new memory. Honestly, I'm sleeping better at night knowing our collection is so well protected on Isilon IQ."

--Geoff Froh, Technical Manager, Densho

FotoKem, one of the largest film and video post production companies in the U.S., has deployed Isilon IQ for storage of major motion pictures. FotoKem uses Isilon IQ for the daily workflow of creating, processing and editing films managing hundreds of thousands of files in the digital intermediate process, the industry's progressive technology for perfecting the final look of motion pictures.

"We have seen tremendous benefits from the Isilon IQ system because it delivers the same high performance regardless of the number of projects in the pipeline and is so incredibly easy to use. It took us longer to take Isilon IQ out of the box than it did to install the system."

--Bill Schultz, Senior Vice President and General Manager, FotoKem

Zoic Studios is an award-winning visual effects and CG animation studio in the commercials, music videos, feature film and episodic television arenas and uses nearly 30 terabytes of Isilon IQ to store their production content and replicate it with Isilon SyncIQ.

"We have long been a customer of Isilon and have been extremely impressed by their rate of innovation over the last year and a half. We have one of the world's largest Microsoft Windows high-performance computing environments (more than 1,000 computer nodes) that require the highest levels of performance. Isilon has a winning combination with their constant innovation with their OneFS distributed file system and use of industry standard hardware. I don't believe any other vendor could have accomplished what they have in such a short period of time."

--Saker Klippsten, Head of Engineering for Emmy Award-winning Zoic Studios

Experience Music Project (EMP) , the world's premier popular music museum, founded by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and designed by architect Frank O. Gehry, has installed more than 15 TB of Isilon IQ storage for the production and editing of music-related audio, video and images for multimedia exhibits and for the streaming of audio and video for playout throughout the museum.

"Isilon IQ will save us both in upfront acquisition costs and ongoing operating costs which means we can use those dollars to expose hundreds of thousands of visitors and tens of thousands of school kids to the study of creativity, inspiration and innovation in the form of music. That's my bottom line."

--Brian Beaumont, Director of Technology, Experience Music Project

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) selected Isilon IQ clustered storage for its rapidly growing stores of georeferenced maps and imagery. Use of Isilon IQ helps the USGS to deliver mission critical information to corporations, local, state and Federal Government agencies to make critical and lifesavings decisions.

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Foldera, Inc. is using Isilon clustered storage to address massive data growth projections resulting from the rapid adoption of its intuitive, web-based filing system for business messaging, collaboration, and organization. Foldera enables its users to instantly sort and file all related communications including incoming and outgoing emails, documents, tasks, comments and calendar events.

"Our unique, web-based application makes communicating easier and more productive for small and medium-sized businesses as well as consumers, but also results in rapid and unpredictable data growth, which we found traditional storage was simply unable to keep pace with. Isilon IQ delivers seamless scalability of performance and capacity, as well as the ease of management we require to ensure our users' information is always online and available."

-- Blake Hunnel, CTO, Foldera

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