FotoKem Turns to Isilon Over Traditional Storage Vendors to Accelerate the Post-Production Workflow

FotoKem is one of the most successful media services companies in the world, with a 40-year tradition of improving the quality of films from classic black and whites to today’s blockbusters. FotoKem was founded in 1963 to provide film processing and printing services to film makers, and has established its reputation as a post-production house focused on quality, service and speed.

In the early 1960s, FotoKem visionary and founder Gerald Brodersen recognized trends taking shape in the film industry and resulting technology needs going unmet. With Brodersen at the helm, FotoKem entered a growing market at the right time, with an approach to technology and customer service unlike any other. FotoKem continually expanded, and today offers post production and complete media services solutions for its customers—which include the top film and television studios in the world. The company boasts a spectacular, cutting-edge post-production studio, with five fully-outfitted theaters and capacity across the company to accommodate hundreds of projects at any one time.

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Anyone who has experienced the magic of stereoscopic 3D, whether from an IMAX 3D movie or even a ViewMaster slideshow, understands that flat images just can’t compare to true stereo 3D. In stereo 3D, the images actually appear to float in the air, suspended inside the screen. A pioneer in digital 3D entertainment, 3ality Digital Systems relies on Isilon IQ clustered storage to power the creation and post production of its groundbreaking, live-action 3D content. Using Isilon IQ clustered storage as part of a complete solution architected by Isilon partner, Talon Data Systems, 3ality Digital Systems is able to unify, manage and access vast libraries of 3D data from a single, highly scalable, shared pool of storage – accelerating and simplifying its entire digital
workflow, from shooting to post production.

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Dedicated to ensuring that your storage systems stay on-line and remain productive, Talon Data Systems will provide support in addition to that which is provided by the individual manufacturer’s we represent. When requested, Talon will provide support 24/7/365. This includes, but is not limited to, diagnosing any possible problems with applications that utilize the storage system. Talon will examine your workflow in detail in order to determine where in the system problems may lie; whether it is in the IT realm or in the world of Fiber Channel connectivity, Talon has the tools needed to keep your data infrastructure running at peak performance.

Integration

Talon Data Systems will help specify, design, test, burn-in, install and support your SAN, NAS or DAS storage infrastructure based on your workflow.We believe that the three most important elements of a successful dynamically growing data storage system are:

• Thoroughly analyzing your workflow and developing cost effective storage solutions to match the performance required and redundancy needed.
• Getting the initial installation done correctly to integrate with your workflow.
• Ensuring that future expansion of the storage capacity is handled seamlessly within hours of discovery of the need.

Dedicated to ensuring that your storage systems stay on-line and remain productive, Talon Data Systems will provide support in addition to that which is provided by the individual manufacturer’s we represent. When requested, Talon will provide support 24/7/365. This includes, but is not limited to, diagnosing any possible problems with applications that utilize the storage system. Talon will examine your workflow in detail in order to determine where in the system problems may lie; whether it is in the IT realm or in the world of Fiber Channel connectivity, Talon has the tools needed to keep your data infrastructure running at peak performance.

Dedicated to ensuring that your storage systems stay on-line and remain productive, Talon Data Systems will provide support in addition to that which is provided by the individual manufacturer’s we represent. When requested, Talon will provide support 24/7/365. This includes, but is not limited to, diagnosing any possible problems with applications that utilize the storage system. Talon will examine your workflow in detail in order to determine where in the system problems may lie; whether it is in the IT realm or in the world of Fiber Channel connectivity, Talon has the tools needed to keep your data infrastructure running at peak performance.

It is official: InfiniBand® (IB) is on the rise in the corporate data center.  Once restricted to exotic supercomputing deployments, we now see IB making a solid
push into enterprise computing environments across a broad range of industry verticals. While still in its early stages of adoption, enterprise IB is already delivering powerful results in the realm of enterprise clustered storage. Because clustered storage solutions rely on communications across large numbers of atomic nodes federated together, the appeal of a high-speed interconnect like IB has long been obvious. Until recently, though, no storage player had found a way to cost-effectively architect an IB-based storage cluster that could scale into the 100s of terabytes and beyond. All that changed earlier this year when Isilon® Systems emerged as a clear leader in the IB-based clustered storage market with a screamingly fast and scalable IB-based version of its Isilon IQ clustered storage systems. The kicker: Isilon priced their IB offering the same as their GigE version! Based on our analysis and discussions with Isilon customers, the benefits of an IB-based storage cluster are too compelling to pass up: massive end-to-end performance gains, superior scalability, and extremely competitive ROI. Isilon’s forward-looking move proves that while InfiniBand has long been the darling of the research and HPC communities, it has now become a viable mainstream enterprise technology. For a deeper look at what InfiniBand will be doing in your data center in the coming years, we encourage potential customers to understand what Isilon is doing today with their IB-based Isilon IQ platform.

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Digital content such as audio, video, images, PDFs, research data sets, graphics and other large digital files are driving storage capacity needs to staggering heights across a range of industries. A company that creates or distributes digital content values those assets throughout the company’s life. Not only is content valuable intellectual property, but existing assets often can be used in derivative products, repurposed into new formats, or repackaged and delivered through new distribution
channels to create additional revenue. For businesses whose success depends upon digital content, the pressure is on to raise productivity and improve profitability by finding new ways to create, analyze and distribute content in digital form.

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