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Isilon Systems, the premier provider of intelligent clustered storage for digital content, announced today that CinemaNow, Inc., the leader in video-on-demand for broadband, has selected Isilon's award-winning Isilon IQ clustered storage products as the primary storage system for its rapidly growing consumer service. With its innovative services and the most extensive library of movies and video programming, CinemaNow is transforming the way consumers rent and buy digital content by providing the immediate download and viewing of premium entertainment titles over broadband Internet connections. Isilon IQ enables CinemaNow to rapidly add new titles and easily manage its growing library of video programming from more than 200 licensors including 20th Century Fox, Disney, MGM, Miramax, Sony, Warner Bros., and Lions Gate Entertainment. From the Cinemanow.com website consumers can select from a library of thousands of titles to watch, rent or buy including recent blockbusters such as Spider-Man 2, The Bourne Supremacy, Troy and Garden State. "The tremendous consumer appetite for full-length, feature programming over the Internet has created a real business opportunity for studios to supply vast amounts of their premium content online," said Bruce Eisen, president of CinemaNow. "As consumption of movies and other video programming increases, the importance of storing and managing this content is a critical business consideration. Isilon IQ clustered storage successfully enables us to address our business needs and make more titles available faster, more reliably and economically than ever before." The online distribution of video programming is poised for explosive growth and CinemaNow, through its innovative use of technologies such as digital content storage, is leading the charge to make trips to the video store a relic of the past. By utilizing their centralized Isilon IQ clustered storage, CinemaNow easily, reliably and economically responds to their growing consumer demand and evolving content libraries. "We are thrilled to be working with pioneering companies like CinemaNow who are fundamentally transforming how people consume all forms of digital entertainment," said Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing and business development for Isilon Systems. "Isilon IQ was built from the ground up to reduce storage acquisition, administration and scalability costs, and we are excited to support CinemaNow's delivery of next generation video-on-demand to consumers." Isilon IQ is a high performance clustered storage system that combines an intelligent distributed file system with modular industry standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability. Isilon's OneFS(TM) distributed file system, now in its third generation, offers industry leading reliability, eliminates islands of storage by creating a single global namespace, and enables customers to grow storage capacity and performance linearly.