SEATTLE -- Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN), the leader in clustered storage, today announced that 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, said Tony Cole, Vice President, Engineering, Discovery Communications. 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.
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SEATTLE -- Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN), the leader in clustered storage, today announced more than 20 companies have joined Isilons alliance ecosystem to power the next generation of media and entertainment by advancing the creation, management, delivery and archival of digital media. Spanning the entire digital media workflow, Isilon IQ delivers a record of up to one Petabyte of capacity and 10 Gigabytes per second of performance in one single file system; creating a single shared pool of easily scalable storage, accelerating media and entertainment companies ability to create, access, deliver, and archive on consumer demands for next-generation digital video and audio content while minimizing the complexity of digital content storage.
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