ABC Selects Isilon IQ for Storage and Management of Major Television and News Content.Business Editors & Technology Writers NAB2004 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2004 Isilon Systems  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . (R), the premier provider of intelligent clustered storage systems for digital content, today announced at NAB 2004 that top television news and studio broadcaster ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. has deployed Isilon IQ for the storage and management of thousands of digital dailies and graphics for television programs and news operations. ABC selected Isilon IQ over traditional storage systems for its ability to scale quickly with no downtime, offer complete and easy integration into their existing infrastructure and deliver unmatched ease of management for the organization. In the creation of digital dailies, ABC uses Isilon IQ to provide immediate access to daily scenes that are processed overnight and sent to the post production team for editing. These digital files require hundreds of terabytes of storage, extremely high scalability and are essential to the productivity of a broadcaster's workflow. ABC needed a storage solution that could keep pace with the high demands of their digital workflow In print publishing, using the computer to lay out text and illustrations prior to creating film negatives for every page or going directly to plate. Prior to digital workflow, the typesetting and pre-press stages were far more time consuming and labor-intensive. and could scale performance and capacity in lock step -- something their current networked storage system was unable to do. "We are impressed with Isilon IQ's ability to scale quickly as our projects increase, while maintaining constant high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. ," said Preston Davis, president of broadcast operations and engineering at ABC. "The end result of the Isilon IQ implementation is a marked improvement in the time it takes to produce content and deliver breaking news." "ABC is exactly the type of business for which Isilon IQ was designed -- one with a need to produce, edit and disseminate content broadly, with extremely high quality and as quickly as possible," said Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing and business development at Isilon. "Isilon IQ was designed to help content-centric businesses improve the overall efficiency of their workflow, and we are thrilled that ABC entrusted that job to us." Isilon IQ is a high performance clustered storage system that combines an intelligent distributed file system Software that keeps track of files stored across multiple networks. When the data are requested, it converts the file names into the physical location of the file so it can be found. with modular industry standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability. Isilon's OneFS(TM) distributed file system eliminates islands of storage by creating a single global namespace A Global Namespace is a heterogeneous, enterprise-wide abstraction of all file information, open to dynamic customization based on user-defined parameters. This becomes of particular importance as multiple network based file systems proliferate within an organization -- the challenge and enables customers to grow both storage capacity and performance linearly. The system was designed specifically for high growth, high throughput applications, such as those in media and entertainment, digital imaging, life sciences, and oil and gas. About Isilon Systems Isilon is the premier provider of intelligent clustered storage systems for digital content. Isilon's award-winning product, Isilon IQ, is a high performance clustered storage system that combines an intelligent distributed file system with modular industry standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability. Isilon IQ was designed for digital content and large data-intensive markets, such as media and entertainment, digital imaging, life sciences, and oil and gas. The Seattle-based company is financed by Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), founded in 1850, is a diversified, global financial services firm. It is a participant in investment banking, equity and fixed income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. , Atlas Venture Atlas Venture is an international early-stage venture capital firm that invests in communications, information technology, and life sciences companies. Atlas Venture has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich, and Paris, and its investments are evenly divided between the and Madrona Venture Group. For more information, visit http://www.isilon.com. The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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