Avid ISIS 5000

Benchmark for affordable shared storage

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As an independent post facility or local broadcaster you’re no different from the biggest. You need to raise productivity, adapt to change, and maximize revenue. So why shouldn’t you have access to the same storage technology? Avid ISIS 5000 shared storage sets a new benchmark for reliable, flexible, high performance media access at an affordable price point, enabling new workflow efficiencies to directly impact your bottom line. If you are a production professional or broadcaster requiring up to 40 four client connections, you can now harness ISIS storage power to raise your productivity and competitiveness.

Reliable performance

Delivering reliable performance for facilities with modest budgets, ISIS 5000 leverages experience gained from thousands of demanding, high-visibility shared storage deployments. Based on the leading storage software for real time media production – the ISIS File System – ISIS 5000 provides the same real time media access, intelligent self-balancing data architecture, and predictable, linear scalability as the enterprise ISIS 7000 (formerly Unity ISIS) product line.

ISIS technology is unmatched in efficiently harnessing bandwidth to support media production and every ISIS 5000 model meets Avid’s high standards for real-time editorial workflow support, backed by the most rigorous testing and verification in the industry.

Collaborative capability

ISIS 5000 easily adapts to a variety of workflow environments, supporting Avid and Apple Final Cut Pro editors equally with FlexDrive, a dynamically scalable storage workspace technology that enhances collaboration and productivity by adjusting storage to your business needs instead of requiring you to work around its limitations. By comparison, other systems have no or limited workspace flexibility, no ability to support both Mac and PC in the same workspace, and may even require storage to be dedicated to a single media type.

Qualification with Avid Interplay asset management and AirSpeed Multi Stream servers brings the full power and capability of Avid end-to-end workflows to a wide range of broadcast, post production, education, and government content creation environments worldwide.

Ease of use

ISIS 5000 is extremely easy to use. Installation and network configuration software wizards combine to minimize set-up time and effort. The new ISIS 5000 Management Console simplifies user management (including LDAP support) and storage management and its comprehensive yet intuitive monitoring and diagnostics have never before been available in this class of storage system. And the best part is that knowledgeable assistance is always available from Avid and Avid ACSR-trained reseller partners worldwide.

Models that fit your needs

Three different models address a range of capacity and connectivity needs from 32 to 64 TB (pre-RAID) and from 4 to 40 client connections. Each ISIS 5000 Storage Engine houses sixteen 2 TB disk drives arrayed in three 4+1 RAID5 sets plus a hot spare drive. The ISIS 5000 Engine houses an ISIS System Director CPU that performs metadata management, and is protected with mirrored, field-replaceable system drives. Depending on the model, four 1Gbit Ethernet ports or a 10Gbit Ethernet port provide connectivity to one or two external switches, or directly connect to four 1Gbit clients. In addition, you can combine the DC model with an externally sourced switch.

Lasting affordability

Not only is ISIS 5000 easy to use, it’s easy to own. Superior performance, ease of use, and collaborative capability make it a great long-term investment. Our singular focus on supporting real-time shared media production has helped more media businesses raise productivity and increase the content quality than all other systems combined. So, whether you are working with Avid editors, Final Cut Pro, or both, ISIS 5000 can help be more creative, more productive, and more profitable than ever before.