ISIS offers mightier storage system: Avid's new system gives digital newsrooms greater flexibility.(TECHNOLOGY)(Avid Unity ISIS)

Broadcasting & Cable, October, 2005 by Kerschbaumer, Ken

Avid Technology last week introduced a storage system that it says better meets the needs of broadcasters, networks and post-production facilities seeking to centralize storage. Called Avid Unity ISIS, the system moves well beyond the capacity of Avid's current Unity system. Whereas that holds up to 20 terabytes (TB) of data and can be accessed by up to 60 editing clients, ISIS offers as much as 64 TB of storage and lets 100 editors, reporters and producers work on video at the same time.

Both the storage capacity and the number of simultaneous users are industry firsts. Facilities look to centralized storage systems to enable all the attached editing clients to share video files, as opposed to having to store the same content multiple times. The...

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