Avid Introduces ISIS 7500

Avid has introduced the new ISIS 7500 online shared storage system, offering real-time editorial collaboration and high storage capacity and performance for large-scale broadcast and post-production environments.
"Media organisations are facing relentless pressure to increase content production while simultaneously improving operational efficiency and controlling costs," said Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of Products and Services at Avid.
"With double the storage capacity of ISIS 7000, ISIS 7500 brings high capacity and performance to large-scale facilities, ensuring the real-time workflows needed to accelerate production and complete projects faster."
A new 128 TB configuration, powered by the new i8000 storage blade and ISIS 4.6 software, enables media organisations to scale the system with up to 3 petabyte (PB) of raw storage (double the capacity of ISIS 7000).
With ISIS shared storage, content creators and contributors can work together, sharing the same media assets facility-wide or everywhere with Interplay® Sphere.
ISIS 7500 maintains real-time performance in the event of a disk failure with automatic drive rebuild.
The system was built with the entire media production workflow in mind. It integrates with AirSpeed® 5000 ingest/playout, Interplay asset management, Avid editing systems and Pro Tools® audio production, accelerating the end-to-end workflow.
It also welcomes third-party applications and servers, enabling easy integration into existing infrastructures.
High-performance, higher capacity ISIS storage blades are available in ISIS 7500, providing 128 TB capacity.
The new i8000 storage blades lower total cost of ownership (TCO), delivering twice the storage capacity of their predecessors (with raw storage of up to 3 PB), using the same physical footprint as smaller capacity configurations.
ISIS 7500 will be available worldwide in December 2013. Pricing for an ISIS 7500 with 128TB ISIS Engine and System Director with Software License and ExpertPlus Hardware Support starts at £134,000 (Ex-VAT).
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