Media & Entertainment

Accelerate Your Media Production Workflows

Media & entertainment organizations are constantly looking for ways to increase the business value of their media assets by merging creative talent with technological breakthroughs. Storage infrastructure plays a critical role in the ability to manage, store, and access vast and rapidly growing libraries of media production and programming content for multiple distribution channels, media formats, and consumption models.

Leading Media & Entertainment Companies Rely on Isilon

Media companies across the globe rely on the Isilon scale-out NAS platform to maximize the value of media assets. Isilon storage solutions, built on the sixth generation OneFS operating system, can store over 10 petabytes of data in a single volume and over 85 gigabytes per second (GBps) of aggregate throughput, and up to 1.6 million IOPS in a single storage system.

Accelerate Your High-Performance Media Production

The Isilon IQ X-Series and S-Series platforms accelerate high performance media production processes by consolidating local media stores and enabling highly concurrent access to any type of digital content, all from a single file system. For HD and 2K real-time workflows, the Isilon Accelerator nodes provide ultra high-speed access to the Isilon scale-out NAS cluster over 15-Gigabit Ethernet network.

Archive Your Valuable Media Assets, While Keeping Them Online

With the IQ NL-Series high-density nearline storage enables you to create large scale media archives to keep your media assets active and repurposing them on the fly increasing their business value.

Isilon Benefits for Media and Entertainment

Isilon scale-out NAS is extremely flexible to adapt to your organization's business growth and take advantage of new revenue opportunities, while providing uncompromising protection and availability to ensure business continuity. With Isilon, you can: 

Improve Productivity:

• Store everything in one place. Scale up to 15.5 PB of capacity in a single files system, single volume.
• Work concurrently. Generate hundreds of SD, HD and 2K streams for ingest, edit, rendering and play-out access to the same pool.
• Edit in-place: Access single copy during and immediately after ingest.

Reduce Costs:

• Lower management cost. Isilon storage results in 10 times less administration overhead.
• Increase storage utilization. Isilon offers 50% higher utilization than DAS solutions and 20% higher than NAS/SAN solutions.
• Eliminate infrastructure cost. With Isilon, you have no need for costly client-side Fibre Channel host bus adaptors (HBAs) and file system software for SAN systems.

Enable New Opportunities:

• Keep more content online. Digitize, preserve and maintain more content online.
• Wide-area content delivery. Take advantage of Isilon's integrated solution with Aspera software for fast and reliable media transfers over wide-area-networks.
• Scale on-the-fly. Add storage instantly and without interruption to take advantage of new business opportunities.

Protect Your Investments:

• FlexProtect. Ensure the highest level of system protection. Even up to four simultaneous device failures will not compromise your data.
• Granular application data protection. Snapshot IQ provides per-directory unlimited snapshots.
• DR replication. Isilon SyncIQ delivers high-performance parallel replication.
• Tape Backup. Isilon offers NDMP backup to tape certified by major backup ISVs.
• Data Rentention. SmartLock provides policy-based rentention and protection against accidental deletion.

The Isilon IQ scale-out storage platform is designed to handle the intensive workflows and storage requirements of media and entertainment, improving productivity, reducing costs, and enabling new business opportunities.