EMC to showcase EMC Isilon Scale-out NAS storage platform at CABSAT 2013

EMC today announced its participation at CABSAT 2013, to be held at Dubai World Trade Centre from 12^th – 14th March. Described by organizers as ‘the Middle East and Africa's largest broadcast digital media and satellite expo’, the event is expected to attract over 11,500 visitors representing 80 countries.

CABSAT 2013 will bring together delegates from the broadcast, digital media and satellite sectors across the Middle East, Africa and Southern Asian regions to discuss the latest challenges associated with managing growing media production and content for distribution. The event will provide the perfect background for EMC to showcase the EMC Isilon Scale-out NAS (network-attached storage) platform, built from the ground up to help address the need for a highly-scalable, high performance, easy-to-manage scale-out storage solution for media applications and workflows.

At the EMC Isilon booth, visitors can leverage live demonstrations and expert tips from EMC’s media workflow specialists in addition to experiencing the new seventh generation of the EMC Isilon OneFS operating system.  OneFS enables customers to scale a single file system/single volume up to 20 petabytes as well as driving the type of industry leading throughput and IOPS performance required by today’s most demanding media and entertainment applications and workflows.

David Sallak, Chief Strategist for M&E, Office of the CTO, and Tarek Heiba, Regional Isilon Sales Director for Turkey, Emerging Africa & the Middle East, will be among key EMC representatives at CABSAT 2013 discussing EMC Isilon’s value in providing a simple yet effective solution for the broadcast, content creation and content delivery markets.