Accelerate Your Media Production Workflows

Storage infrastructure plays a critical role in Media & Entertainment companies’ ability to manage, store, and access vast and rapidly growing libraries of media production and programming content for multiple distribution channels. Isilon storage solutions are capable of storing over 3 petabytes of data in a single volume and over 30 gigabytes per second (GBps) of aggregate throughput, and up to 1 million IOPS in a single storage system. The Isilon IQ X-Series and S-Series platforms accelerate high performance media production processes to meet aggressive time-to-market schedules by consolidating local media stores and enabling highly concurrent access to any type of digital content, all from a single file system.


	Case Study: 3Ality Digital Systems: Creating Broadcast Breakthroughs in 3D 3ality Digital Systems relies on Isilon IQ clustered storage to power the creation and post production of its live-action 3D content. With the ever-growing storage needs of 3D digital media, it is vital to be able to scale storage to meet the demands of the business.

	Case Study: Paramount: 55,000 Hours of Material. One Breakthrough Technology Paramount Digital Entertainment needed a flexible storage system that could automate storage administration tasks and help the company better leverage existing IT resources. They were looking for a system that could be used for production, delivery and archiving of their rich-media file-based data.


	Case Study: FotoKem: Breakthroughs Hit the Big Screen FotoKem has been in the post-production business for 40 years. The company has been charged with improving the quality of everything from classic black-and-white films to modern blockbusters. With the majority of their work involving the digitization of films for processing, their storage needs were staggering.

	White Paper: Isilon in Production: Driving Productivity, Cost Reduction and New Opportunities in Media and Entertainment Create it. Manage it. Deliver it. It sounds simple. But within these three key media and entertainment processes are a myriad of moving parts, immeasurable man hours, and ever increasing challenges.


	Case Study: NBC Olympics: Digital Imaging Leads to Breakthrough Coverage of the Olympic Games See how NBC transforms coverage of live events with unprecedented broadcast of the 2004 Olympic Games. More than 40 terabytes of Isilon IQ clustered storage enables NBC to deliver the most ambitious live event coverage in history.

Simplify File-Based Storage for Government Agencies

Isilon IQ® delivers the industry's first single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly growing stores of file-based data that government agencies collect and disseminate. While eliminating the cost and greatly reducing the complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures, Isilon IQ easily scales storage, unifying vital data into one file system, increasing the performance of applications, and reducing the time spent managing storage. Isilon IQ enables agencies to maximize their budgets by easily expanding storage on a modular pay-as-you-grow basis.


	Case Study: San Bernardino County: A Breakthrough in Record Keeping To support the persistent growth of its electronic filing services, and to allow citizens, banks and other authorized parties to access official documents around the clock, the County of San Bernardino needed a storage solution that enabled the addition of more than five million new documents annually, as well as permanently archiving and posting all previously scanned and filed documents.


	Case Study: NASA World Wind: A Breakthrough Way to Look at Our World By using a vast collection of processed high resolution satellite imagery, NASA World Wind, an open source, virtual globe enables anyone with Internet access to experience and explore the Earth (along with the Milky Way, Mars, Jupiter and Venus) and its terrain through visually rich 3D imagery.

Enable Greater Research Productivity with Isilon Storage

Dramatic advances in next gen sequencing technologies, ever-greater microscopy resolutions and a many-fold increase in the number of medical imaging devices are driving unprecedented growth of critical file-based research data. Life science and bioinformatics organizations require massive scaling headroom, significant storage performance, accommodation of various file types and access patterns, and multi-protocol accessibility. And most of all, as organizations often perceived as "data rich" but "IT-light", they need their large-scale storage to be simple. Simple to buy, build, maintain, and grow. Isilon scale-out NAS solutions dramatically increase the productivity of mission-critical life science and bioinformatics research applications and workflows by 50 percent, while driving down complexity and cost by one-third.


	Case Study: Cedars-Sinai: On the Trail of a Prostate Cancer Breakthrough By blending state-of-the-art technology with cutting-edge research, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Louis Warschaw Center for Applied Molecular Medicine aims to make life-prolonging contributions to one of the most common and second most diagnosed types of cancer for men.


	Case Study: UCLA LONI: Transforming Grey Matter into Medical Breakthroughs Find out how UCLA LONI has embraced Isilon IQ Clustered Storage to power critical work for hundreds of researchers in advancing the scientific understanding of the brain.


	White Paper: BioTeam: Storage for Science This white paper is intended to inform the Life Science researcher with large and rapidly growing data storage needs. Many of the storage requirements common to Life Science research are explored and the evolution of modern storage architectures from local disks through symmetric clustered storage is explained.

Predicting the Unpredictable: Being Ready for Success

Web and Internet companies require flexible, cost-effective infrastructures to fluidly scale and adapt on-the-fly as the elastic demands of the Internet or user base warrant. Web and content providers need to cost-effective scale storage performance and capacity without disruption, and remain agile and online during unpredictable growth patterns. It's also difficult to predict web success and know exactly when your site or service will take-off and flourish, or when content and traffic to your site will surge; storage performance and capacity requirements could spike overnight! This is why Facebook, JibJab, MySpace, Kodak Gallery, and many other customers are turning to scale-out NAS solutions from Isilon Systems.


	Case Study: Kodak: A Breakthrough in Digital Imaging Isilon IQ clustered storage, powered by the OneFS operating system software, enables Kodak EasyShare Gallery to simplify its storage architecture and respond to both rapidly increasingly image resolutions and its expanding customer base. Isilon IQ enabled Kodak EasyShare Gallery to eliminate the costly third-party servers and software virtualization products that sat between the application servers and storage.


	Case Study: Myspace: A Breakthrough in Social Networking Find out how MySpace deployed Isilon Systems clustered storage to support astounding user growth and media consumption. MySpace evaluated Isilon IQ clustered storage along with numerous traditional storage systems and chose Isilon IQ for its significant capital and operational cost savings; linear scalability and ability to scale without downtime in less than 60 seconds.


	White Paper: Near-Line and Web 2.0 Isilon is expanding their focus leveraging their strengths including ease of management, cost effectiveness and scalability to near-line storage. They are also turning up the heat on their leadership in Web 2.0 with greater density and scalability of up to an impressive 1.6 PB in a single logical system.