Isilon Picked by NBC for Olympics

LAS VEGAS -- Isilon(R) Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN), the leader in clustered storage, todayannounced that they have been selected to provide Isilon IQ clusteredstorage to NBC during the network's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics,August 8-24. The announcement was made today by Craig Lau, Vice President,Information Technology, NBC Olympics and Brett Goodwin, Vice President ofMarketing and Business Development, Isilon Systems.

Described as the most ambitious single media project in history, NBCwill present more than 3600 hours of broadcast coverage of the 2008 BeijingOlympics. NBC will be using Isilon IQ clustered storage as the primary,on-site storage solution for media created on its HD EVS XT[2] serversystem and will be archiving its entire collection of low resolutionOlympic footage onto Isilon IQ, ensuring unmatched data availability andreliability for this critical content. NBC is among hundreds of media andbroadcast companies who rely on Isilon IQ to create, access, deliver, andarchive the next generation of digital media.

"NBC's broadcast of the Olympic Games in Beijing is an unprecedentedmedia event, broadcasting thousands of hours of programming via standardand high definition, online, on-demand, and even on-the-go wirelesscoverage over just a seventeen day period," said Craig Lau, Vice President,Information Technology, NBC Olympics. "This epic undertaking requires thelatest innovations in broadcast infrastructure and Isilon clustered storageplays an important role in our media workflow, enabling immediate, reliableaccess to content 24x7 to help power our Olympic broadcast operations."

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