Avid Unity ISIS

Unparalleled Performance
Effortless performance and efficient bandwidth delivery set Avid Unity ISIS v2.0 apart. A single Avid Unity ISIS Engine provides up to 400 MB/s of useable bandwidth, and new 10Gb/s Ethernet Windows client connectivity supports uncompressed HD and 2K resolutions. Online and offline workflows can be combined on a single system to boost flexibility, simplify administration, and reduce costs.

It doesn’t stop there. Avid Unity ISIS provides high-bandwidth, real-time performance even as client counts increase. Up to 12 Avid Unity ISIS Engines deliver predictable, linear performance to 4.8 GB/s – easily meeting the challenge of the most demanding and ambitious real-time applications. That’s a key reason why Avid Unity ISIS is the ideal media network foundation for any content creation enterprise.

Exceptional expandability
Avid Unity ISIS is based on a highly scalable, self-balancing, distributed architecture. Each storage blade includes its own processor, so when you add capacity, you also add intelligent processing power.

- Client scalability. With the tested and proven ability to scale up to 330 real-time clients, you can rely on Avid Unity ISIS as your workflow or facility grows. From editors to loggers, journalists and producers, your valuable media assets are now easily accessible to users across the enterprise.
- Asset scalability. With Avid Unity ISIS v2.0, total system capacity is now expanded to 384TB, or 196TB useable with full system mirroring. In mirrored mode, this is enough capacity to store up to 430 hours of uncompressed HD, or 8700 hours of 50 Mb/s compressed HD.

Protect your business
The Avid Unity ISIS Engine is a unique blade-based storage subsystem that features intelligent dual-drive storage elements, integrated Ethernet switching, and redundant power and cooling. Built-in system-wide health monitoring signals any point of failure. Avid Unity ISIS Engines, storage blades, switch blades, and power/cooling modules can be easily added, removed, or hot-swapped while the system is live. The system automatically adapts to component failures and replacements - while work continues without delay.

Unlike common storage area networks (SANs) the advanced Avid Unity ISIS architecture distributes data and metadata so that each intelligent storage element can make instant decisions that collectively optimize the performance, capacity, and health of the entire system. Complementary redundancy across all components provides an unprecedented seven layers of protection for uninterrupted availability and absolute reliability in high-pressure broadcast, post, or film production environments.