Large-scale media & entertainment customers achieving significant performance & workflow productivity gains

Joint Solution Combines State-of- the-Art Digital Content Storage
and Media Asset Management Technologies

NEW YORK - April 24, 2006 - Venaca Inc., a leading provider of Media Asset Management (MAM) systems for large media enterprises, and Isilon® Systems, the leader in clustered storage, today announced that the companies have joined forces to deliver a solution enabling media and entertainment companies to dramatically streamline workflows, better monetize media properties and preserve the core value of their assets.

Deployed in a number of mission-critical production environments, this solution combines Isilon IQ clustered storage with Venaca's S3 MAM system to create one single, instantly searchable and accessible repository of media assets, providing unsurpassed collaboration across the network and greatly increased workflow efficiency, as well as industry leading reliability for storing valuable media content.

"In the highly competitive media and entertainment marketplace, leading companies are continuing to expand and create new broadcast platforms in which they can deliver outstanding and innovative content to millions of viewers," said Tom Burchill, CEO, Venaca. "By leveraging our partnership with Isilon they can now deliver unprecedented volumes of high quality programming to viewers while, at the same time, deriving more revenue from their assets."

"With the advent of several new media distribution networks and associated changes in media consumption habits, the broadcast and entertainment industry is aggressively pursuing technology solutions that enable them to quickly capitalize on these expanded markets and revenue opportunities," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Isilon Systems. "Designed specifically to store large files and digital content, Isilon clustered storage is quickly becoming a core component of the data center in media and entertainment companies."

With the growing need for the media and entertainment industry to digitize once and then distribute countless times, media asset management has increasingly become a critical component of the media business infrastructure, enabling media companies to gain a competitive advantage and quickly reach their audience through highly profitable new mediums. The Venaca S3 MAM system integrates workflow in media creation and repurposing from ingest and storage to production and distribution. Additionally, Venaca's system manages both the capture and logging of metadata, and has the capability to search, browse, retrieve and reuse media assets, enabling media companies to increase the monetization of their media assets, greatly streamline workflows and preserve the business's core assets.

Venaca and Isilon are collaborating on projects for a number of large broadcasters. The management and storage of high-quality video content has certain unique challenges, such as multiple formats and massive file sizes, requiring a unified, easy to use, reliable solution to enable cross-network collaboration, maximization of assets and resource conservation. Combining Venaca S3 with Isilon IQ creates a complete storage and MAM solution with the high performance, reliability and flexibility required to perform and excel in the most extreme media environments.

About Isilon Systems
Isilon is the leader in clustered storage. Isilon's award-winning family of Isilon IQ products consists of high-performance clustered storage systems that combine an intelligent distributed file system with modular industry-standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability. Isilon IQ was designed for unstructured data and for use in data-intensive markets such as media and entertainment, digital imaging, life sciences, oil and gas and government. The Seattle-based company is financed by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Atlas Venture, Madrona Venture Group and Focus Ventures. For more information, please visit www.isilon.com