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STORAGE SOLUTIONS for storage before. Working with three stor- age solutions was a bit difficult when editors were jumping from show to show. With ISIS 5000 we now have the storage capacity to have all our shows on one system." Technical supervisor Anthony G. Crisano says that ISIS "doesn't have the limitations that Unity had with its file and directory count. Our ISIS is wired with 44 clients. Unity had one, and we had to purchase each additional fibre or Ethernet client. So ISIS is much more cost ef- fective for the volume of work we do." Trowbridge notes that Original Media usu- ally has four or five shows in post simultane- ously. "Most editors stay on the same shows but the development department can pull them off to work on a sizzle reel or they can bounce from a series to development pieces. With our past infrastructure they sometimes couldn't go onto Unity be- cause we were out of client seats or there was no fibre pull to the floor they were working on. Now, they can jump back and forth at will." The company's ISIS 5000 has a 32TB chassis, which can scale up to 128TBs, "so there's plenty of room for us to grow," she says. "We've only had the system for two months but we haven't experienced any issues, and it's easy to set up work spaces for our new shows." Avid-based Original Media works on a host of reality shows, including Storm Chasers. Crisano echoes her early kudos. "The install was really seamless — we just popped it in and started creating work spaces. Ethernet is the best way to go; fibre breaks all the time and you get the same exact speed with Ethernet, if not more. In fact, ISIS seems to handle HD resolution better than Unity on fibre." Storage Solutions • March 2012 • 11