James Cameron's Next Major Motion Picture Uses Clustered Storage to Create
Groundbreaking 3D Entertainment
SEATTLE, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los
Angeles, Isilon(R) Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN), the leader in clustered storage,
today announced that James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment, the
production company behind such films as Abyss, Terminator and Titanic, is
using Isilon IQ clustered storage to power the production of its next major
motion picture Avatar. To create Avatar, Lightstorm Entertainment is
employing an all-digital virtual filming environment with leading-edge,
performance capture technology and Pace/Cameron's Fusion Camera System to
create a 3D movie experience unlike any yet produced. Using Isilon IQ,
Lightstorm is able to unify, manage and access vast stores of unique,
extremely high resolution 3D content from a single, high-performance,
highly scalable, shared pool of storage -- accelerating and simplifying its
entire digital workflow from the virtual environment's creation, to
live-action motion capture and 3D convergence.
"Our unique and highly demanding workflow creates terabytes of data on
a weekly and even daily basis, necessitating a storage solution with the
scalability and high performance to efficiently manage our data and
accelerate production," said Jon Landau, Producer, Lightstorm
Entertainment. "Isilon clustered storage is so hands off, we simply turn it
on and go to work."
The Avatar production generates terabytes of data in various formats,
including massive digital files used in creating Avatar's all-digital,
virtual filming environment, small metadata and instructional files, still
frames for review, and large media files from Avid systems. Prior to using
Isilon IQ, Lightstorm's traditional storage system lacked the concurrent
performance, scalability and ease of management necessary to support
Avatar's intense production pipeline. By deploying Isilon clustered
storage, Lightstorm now has the flexibility to shoot hundreds of takes of
any given scene and then immediately access this content from one, highly
reliable, easily scalable file system, significantly reducing workflow
complexity and accelerating production. Additionally, Isilon's unique "pay
as you grow" architecture ensures Lightstorm can create massive amounts of
content without storage capacity limitations, speeding time-to-results
while saving valuable time and resources.
"High-definition, 3D filmmaking is the next phase in the evolution of
motion pictures and represents an unprecedented opportunity for Hollywood
to capture audiences like never before," said Steve Fitz, Senior Vice
President, Global Field Operations, Isilon Systems. "Lightstorm's
production of Avatar is pioneering this next generation of filmmaking and
its never-before-attempted production techniques are laying the groundwork
for the rest of Hollywood to follow its lead."
Powered by OneFS(R), Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single
file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the
rapidly growing stores of digital content, eliminating the cost and
complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures. OneFS is a
unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon's
award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems, including the Isilon
IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, 9000, 12000, Accelerator, and EX 6000, 9000 and
12000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications
including SnapshotIQ(TM), SmartConnect(TM), SmartQuotas(TM),
MigrationIQ(TM), and SyncIQ(R) that leverage OneFS and clustered storage,
providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data
management.
About Isilon
Isilon Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) is the worldwide leader in clustered
storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data,
enabling enterprises to transform data into information -- and information
into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage
systems combines Isilon's OneFS operating system software with the latest
advances in industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow,
enterprise-class storage systems. Isilon's clustered storage solutions
speed access to critical business information while dramatically reducing
the cost and complexity of storing it. Information about Isilon can be
found at http://www.isilon.com.
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CONTACT:
Jay Wampold of Isilon Systems,
+1-206-315-7620, jay.wampold@isilon.com
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