EMC And Presidio To Store Data For NBC Olympics In data Lake For Real-Time Digital Broadcast

EMC Corporation EMC and Presidio disclosed that they were selected to support media workflows of NBC Olympics for the production of the XXXI Olympiad that take place in Brazil from August 5 – 21. EMC said that NBC Olympics would deliver digital content to the international audiences through several outlets to support coverage of the Rio Olympics. The sports organization would leverage the company's Isilon storage to offer high-resolution images, as well as, uncompressed files to its live television and online broadcasts. For its part, Presidio would offer engineering support, as well as, services for the design, delivery, implementation and ongoing support for Isilon digital content management solution. The company indicated that by adding two 560-terabyte EMC Isilon NL 400 clusters located onsite in Rio, the organizer would have the capability to locally store digital content to allow quick access for on-air broadcast or posting online. Both, Presidio and EMC, would employ EMC storage systems to support amount of high-resolution digital video and images generated from the games, and the social media content from fans throughout the world. The company's statement said, "The additional EMC Isilon NL-Series clusters combine the accessibility of near-line storage with cost-effective, high-capacity storage to deliver the greatest moments from the 2016 Olympic Games to millions of households and destinations across the world." On Monday, shares of the company traded higher by 0.04%.