Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unity ISIS

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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:21, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unity ISIS

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Dubious notability, reads like an advertisement, no cites to reliable sources, all cites in article are to the vendor's website. PROD-ed by myself, PROD endorsed by User:Bearian, but contested by page creator User:Vchimpanzee on the article's Talk page, hence taking it to AFD. SomethingForDeletion (talk) 10:29, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. SomethingForDeletion (talk) 10:29, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 11:45, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
1. Kerschbaumer, Ken (2005-10-31). "ISIS Offers Mightier Storage SystemAvid's new system gives digital newsrooms greater flexibility". Broadcasting & Cable. Vol. 135, no. 44. p. 21. ProQuest 225328399.
  The article notes: "Avid Technology last week introduced a storage system that it says better meets the needs of broadcasters, networks and post-production facilities seeking to centralize storage. Called Avid Unity ISIS, the system moves well beyond the capacity of Avid's current Unity system. Whereas that holds up to 20 terabytes (TB) of data and can be accessed by up to 60 editing clients, ISIS offers as much as 64 TB of storage and lets 100 editors, reporters and producers work on video at the same time. ... CBS News will use ISIS as the backbone of its new digital newsroom, which eventually will use Sony XDCAM HD at 50 Mbps."
2. Birmaier, Craig (February 2006). "Don't panic: The broadcaster's guide to storage". Broadcast Engineering. Vol. 40, no. 2. Future plc. pp. 14–18. ProQuest 204179254.
  The article notes: "Avid recently introduced a new media workgroup solution called the Unity ISIS media network. (See Web links.) The system offers a glimpse into the future of intelligent storage networks, which will offer more capabilities and built-in redundancy, while reducing cost and complexity. The heart of Avid's system is called a Data Blade. In essence, it is a NAS unit with two Gigabit Ethernet ports. Each Data Blade contains two Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks for 1TB of storage. The Data Blades are attached to Gigabit Ethernet switches, creating two redundant paths from any client to any Data Blade. ... Given the incredible pace of change over the past two decades, one might come to the conclusion that off-the-shelf IT solutions will eventually replace such products as Avid's Unity ISIS or that it is improbable that companies developing dedicated solutions for broadcasters will survive. Don't bet on it."
3. "Avid -- Unity ISIS". Videography. New Bay Media. 2005-11-01. Factiva VDOG000020051203e1b10000s.
  The article notes: "Now available from Avid is the next-generation shared-storage solution in the Avid Unity family: the Avid Unity ISIS media network. Unlike SAN devices that rely on centralized intelligence to manage data, the Avid Unity ISIS system leverages a distributed intelligence architecture via Avid's Infinitely Scalable Intelligent Storage (ISIS) technology. This design enables 16 individual storage blades-housed within a single storage chassis (Avid ISIS Engine)-to process media while simultaneously sharing data and balancing the collective workflow between entire groups of connected storage drives."
4. "Avid Rolls Out ISIS Storage Solution". Broadcast TV. CMP Media. 2005-11-01. Factiva DGTV000020051203e1b100003.
  The article notes: "Building upon its Unity family of products, Avid Technology has introduced a new shared storage solution, the Avid Unity ISIS media network. ISIS, which stands for Infinitely Scalable Intelligent Storage, employs a distributed-intelligence architecture that enables 16 individual storage blades to process media while simultaneously sharing data and balancing the collective workflow between entire groups of connected storage drives. ... CBS News recently began using the Avid Unity ISIS in a continual effort to convert to digital. "When we first saw Avid Unity ISIS, we knew it would be an ideal storage solution that could more efficiently handle the massive amounts of media that we store, access, and share simultaneously between our major news operations in New York and London every day," said Frank Governale, VP of Operations at CBS News. "It also fits well into our IT infrastructure, greatly expanding our client count and the amount of data we can share in real time," he added."
5. Less significant coverage:
  1. Dickson, Glen (2009-06-29). "MSNBC's High-Def Retrofit; 30 Rock control room, Washington D.C. studio get major HD overhaul". Broadcasting & Cable. Factiva BDCTCA0020090629e56t00001.
    The article notes: "MSNBC upgraded five editing rooms to HD with Avid Symphony Nitris systems. It is editing packages using Avid's DnxHD 145-megabit-per-second mezzanine compression format, storing them on the Unity ISIS. It uses Grab Network's Anystream software for transcoding needs, employing a grid transcoding system with parallel processors. "Everything here is shared," says Canary. "We have one large Unity ISIS that handles all the content from Today, Nightly News and MSNBC.""
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Unity ISIS to pass Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Primary criteria, which requires "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 12:57, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is that really significant enough to warrant a whole article about this product, as opposed to say merging it to the article on the vendor? To me it just reads like the usual trade journal copy-paste job of the vendor's press release. Even the quotes from MSNBC and CBS executives – anyone who has ever worked in or adjacent to enterprise/B2B sales knows how this works, they're called "reference customers", they'll let you quote them endorsing your product in your marketing/PR materials, in exchange you promise to take extra special care of them. I think once you cut out the fluff and just stick to the hard facts, we are looking at a permanent stub. SomethingForDeletion (talk) 20:16, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) I would be okay with merging as long as the information is covered somewhere.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think there is enough coverage and material to support a standalone article. I do not object to covering the information in Avid Technology but would be concerned about due weight issues where it could be only be very briefly mentioned. Cunard (talk) 13:35, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The source where I read about this is shown above. Also, there are two other sources I used, even if they do come from the company's web site, they look like they came from somewhere else. A lot of information in one source is based on interviews but someone has to describe how the product works.^[1]^[2]
References
1. ^ Moren, Bill (January 2007). "Avid Unity ISIS:The System Offers Real-Time Access to Multiple Users" (PDF). Broadcast Engineering. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
2. ^ Kerschbaumer, Ken (March 2007). "Triple Play: WBZ, WSBK and WLWC Move to a Tapeless Workflow" (PDF). Broadcast Engineering. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:20, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - There is sufficient coverage such as TV Technology, Broadcast Engineering. Drushrush (talk) 07:04, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

[moren-1] Moren, Bill (January 2007). "Avid Unity ISIS:The System Offers Real-Time Access to Multiple Users" (PDF). Broadcast Engineering. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2009.

[2] Kerschbaumer, Ken (March 2007). "Triple Play: WBZ, WSBK and WLWC Move to a Tapeless Workflow" (PDF). Broadcast Engineering. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2009.

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