Customers Present How EMC Isilon Accelerates Media Workflows at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference 2011

Customers Present How EMC Isilon Accelerates Media Workflows at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference 2011

CTV and Zoic Studios To Present at NAB 2011 on Using Isilon Scale-out NAS to Streamline Media Production and Simplify IT Management

SEATTLE, April 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that EMC Isilon® customers CTV, Canada's largest private broadcaster, and Zoic Studios, an Emmy Award-winning visual effects studio, are presenting in Isilon's booth #SL11614 at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference in Las Vegas, NV, April 11-14. Today, more than 650 leading media and entertainment organizations use Isilon scale-out NAS to accelerate production cycles, driving increased revenue and speeding time-to-market.

Using Isilon, media organizations can create a simple to manage, shared storage resource that scales beyond 10 petabytes (PB) of capacity and 85 Gigabytes per second (GBps) of aggregate throughput in a single file system, delivering an ideal storage platform for every stage of the media workflow lifecycle. The customer presentation schedule at NAB is as follows:

Zoic Studios, Monday, April 11, and Tuesday, April 12 at 10:15 a.m. PT

Zoic Studios is an Emmy Award-winning visual effects (VFX) studio providing leading-edge post production services for television, film and commercials. Zoic's head of engineering and information technology Saker Klippsten will present how using Isilon as the storage platform for its VFX pipeline has helped accelerate project delivery, while reducing storage management and costs.

CTV, Tuesday, April 12, 11:00 a.m. PT

CTV, a division of Bell Media, is Canada's largest private broadcaster. CTV's director of media technology systems Mike Kozlakowski will detail how CTV uses Isilon as the primary storage system supporting its 24x7x365 broadcast operations. With Isilon, CTV has achieved 95 percent storage utilization with no degradation of performance, maximizing its storage investment and significantly increasing workflow productivity.

By consolidating content creation, editing, play-out and archival onto single point of management, Isilon scale-out NAS solutions deliver the storage foundation for every stage in the media workflow. At NAB 2011, Isilon and its partners demonstrate how an integrated technology platform enable media organizations to more effectively manage, store, access and drive value from vast and rapidly growing libraries of media content for multiple distribution channels, media formats, and consumption models. With Isilon, media companies can improve productivity, reduce costs and complexity, and pursue new business opportunities, all from a single, easy to use storage solution.

About Isilon

Isilon, a division of EMC, is the global leader in scale-out NAS solutions. We deliver powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to manage their data, not their storage. Isilon's products are simple to install, manage and scale and, unlike traditional enterprise storage, Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required, or how business needs change in the future. We're challenging enterprises to think differently about their storage, because when they do, they'll recognize there's a better, simpler way. Learn what we mean at http://www.isilon.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

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CONTACT: Lucas Welch, +1-206-315-7621, lucas.welch@isilon.com

Web Site: http://www.emc.com

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