Isilon Helps Central and Eastern Europe's Largest Broadcast Over Satellite Provider Meet Growing Demand

SEATTLE, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon® (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced that STN, a leading service provider delivering broadcasts over satellite for Central and Eastern Europe, has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to meet strong demand for its innovative broadcast services. Using the Isilon X-Series, featuring its OneFS® operating system, STN has simplified content management by unifying its data onto a central, shared storage resource, enabling the broadcast leader to easily migrate clients onto its new play-out system and speed time-to-delivery for a wide range of programming.

"For us, the raw performance and stability of the storage system is critical, as downtime or data loss are catastrophic for our operations," said Tomaz Lovsin, managing director, STN. "With many of our channels operating 24 hours a day and often playing live events, the loss of service for even a few minutes is simply unacceptable. Isilon's simplicity and reliability ensure we don't have to worry about any service interruption."

STN operates several major contracts including the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, MYtv and Total TV, and has established itself as the largest independent satellite broadcaster in Central and Eastern Europe. STN's previous NAS system required five full-time equivalents (FTE) to manage the storage environment, placing significant cost and resource restraints on the broadcaster's IT operations. As STN's business continued to expand, it needed a storage solution that could easily scale to meet changing application requirements and provide a simple, yet powerful foundation for future growth.

By deploying Isilon's 36000X, STN has been able to reallocate two FTEs to higher order priorities, while maintaining 100 percent uptime for its broadcast operations, ensuring its programming is delivered without interruption. With Isilon, STN can independently scale system capacity and performance, providing maximum flexibility in aligning storage spend with business needs, while simultaneously accelerating its applications. Using Isilon's X-Series, STN has created an on-demand, highly reliable storage pool for its broadcast workflow, driving increased operating leverage for its business and enabling the European broadcast leader to capitalize on market demand.

"Broadcast workflows require the highest levels of performance and data availability to ensure that programming is delivered as scheduled, without interruption," said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon. "These mission-critical operations are representative of a wide range of enterprise applications, where downtime is unacceptable and performance is at a premium. By using Isilon to simplify data management, secure content and accelerate time-to-delivery, STN is demonstrating Isilon's compelling benefits for broadcast and non-broadcast customers alike."

About STN

STN has quickly risen to become a leading teleport service provider delivering broadcasts over satellite for Central and Eastern Europe.  From its headquarters in Slovenia, STN offers TV channels, radio broadcasters and content producers a cost-effective outsource for all or part of their play-out and transmission requirements.  Today the company transmits over 200 TV and radio stations and serves clients from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Information about STN can be found at http://www.stn.eu.

About Isilon

As a global leader in scale-out storage, Isilon delivers 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, at any size. 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.

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