An In Depth Look at ISIS 5000

There are many things to consider when purchasing a storage system that will support your multi-editor workflow. Given the rapid development of technology and competitive products, there are many options to consider. One of the best developed and backed brands in our industry is AVID. This week, we decided to go a little deeper into the ISIS 5000 offering to provide you a better look at the features and capabilities.

Online Real-time Team Collaboration

Do all of your content creators have fast access to the assets they need? In most shops the answer is no. If our goal is to squeeze the production timeline and simultaneously produce the best quality content we can, having everything at your fingertips quickly is key, and having that available for all team members can't be over emphasized. With the ISIS 5000 installed in your facility, each member of your team will have simultaneous, real-time access to all your footage, whether you're working in Media Composer, Final Cut Pro 7, or Adobe Premiere. And yes, even if you're using all NLE's together.

Efficient use of Space

Considering that high quality fast speed storage space gets expensive, you need to make sure you use your space wisely. To that end, AVID has developed FlexDrive a feature that dynamically adds workspaces or grows or shrinks workspace capacities so that storage is used most efficiently.

Backed and Supported by AVID

Let's not forget that one of the most important considerations is not what happens when it's working, but what happens when it goes down. And although we haven't seen these things go down much if at all, the ISIS 5000 comes standard with 24X7 support contract with AVID*. This gives you the peace of mind that if there is a problem, a qualified AVID technical representative will be there to walk you thru a solution.

Reliability

The ISIS 5000 has been designed for online environments and boasts a number of features specifically created to maintain uptime. These include:

•  RAID-5 protected storage: If a physical drive fails, the system can still operate off the other drives -  no data is lost.

•  Hot Spare - The system comes with a dedicated drive installed and spinning which just waits until another drive has failed and then starts rebuilding automatically.

•  Resilient System Director - Should an internal  primary ISIS Engine fail, the System Director will enable a secondary ISIS Engine to take over operation and alert the system administrator to required maintenance.

•  Mirrored System Drives - Because the ISIS 5000 is a server and runs an operating system, the OS needs to be protected from failure, so AVID built in a mirrored OS boot drive into every system. In case of OS drive failure, the system automatically takes over on the other boot drive allowing you to hot swap the bad device.

Management Control & Security

With the ability to connect to Network security systems including LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory, management user permissions and security has never been easier. The ISIS 5000 understands the security mechanisms you already have in place so transitions are simple. As an administrator you have direct access to all status and management control functions of the ISIS thru a web browser.

Efficient use of Space

Considering that high quality fast speed storage space gets expensive, you need to make sure you use your space wisely. To that end, AVID has developed FlexDrive a feature that dynamically adds workspaces or grows or shrinks workspace capacities so that storage is used most efficiently.

Simple Installation

With near plug and play design, the ISIS 5000 can be up and running in your facility with little to no effort. It comes set up by ProMAX, pre-configured and burned in so that when it arrives, it’s ready to go. In addition, MediaNetwork customers can easily migrate their data with an available data migration utility.

Growing with your Facility

Because the ISIS 5000 can scale up to 192TB of storage space, rest assured that your

investment can grow with your facility. Starting with 16TB or 32TB of storage is not a temporary solution as ISIS 5000 is built to expand with your needs. Speed and Connection and Capacity

Connect up to 90 client computers to an ISIS 5000 platform. Here is the breakdown: