This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] ISIS 7500 announced today and new v4.6 software

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

[Avid-L2] ISIS 7500 announced today and new v4.6 software

We just released a new member of the ISIS Family - ISIS 7500 – today.

The ISIS 7500 is the latest addition to our collaborative storage for media and entertainment workflows. Introducing the i8000 ISIS Storage Blade (ISB) with two 4TB drives, delivering 128TB capacity per engine. This provides more storage space for more content, higher resolutions and higher frame rates and delivers more streams for more editors to get the jobs done faster.

The ISIS 7500 has three (3) engine sizes;

1. ISIS 7500-32TB is a great entry point for customers requiring predictable performance and the high availability features of ISIS 7500.

2. ISIS 7500-64TB is an ideal choice existing ISIS 7000 customers looking to expand.

3. ISIS 7500-128TB provides the greatest storage capacity to meet ever growing demands.

All three engine sizes can be scaled-out to create an ISIS 7500 system with up to 24 engines, using ISIS File System, delivering bandwidth, capacity, flexibility and security of ISIS Workspaces to organize and segregate multiple simultaneous projects.

Note that the ISIS 7500 32/64/128 will replace the existing ISIS 7000 32/64

Important: These two generations of ISIS are fully compatible, any existing ISIS 7000 systems can be extended and enhanced by adding an ISIS 7500 engine(s). Also, the ISIS 7500 i2000 (2TB), i4000 (4TB) and the new i8000 (8TB) ISBs can be used to upgrade existing ISIS 7000 systems.

ISIS v4.6 Software

Avid will launch a new ISIS 4.6 software version on December 9, 2013.

This release will provide:

Support for ISIS 7500 128TB engine and i8000 ISIS Storage Blade (ISB).
Access, edit, and share ISIS-stored media in real-time using Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or Windows 8.1 or Red Hat Linux 6.2- compatible applications.
Scale ISIS 7000/7500 up to 3 PB of raw storage with the new 128 TB Engine

Version information:

It is strongly recommend for all customers to use up-to-date recent ISIS 7000 |7500 software versions. The following are the recommended versions available to customers with an Avid support contract:

- ISIS v4.6 Required for ISIS 7500 128TB Engine / i8000, Windows 8.1, Mac Mavericks

- ISIS v4.5 Required for environments with ISIS 5500, Linux client

Other supported versions:

ISIS v4.2.2 & ISIS v2.4.1 (Note: ISIS systems using version 2.1.0 and earlier MUST upgrade to v2.1.2 to perform an important ISIS File System metadata conversion step.)

Questions, let me know.

Marianna