"Avid Unity products have become the most widely-used shared-storage solutions in the digital nonlinear content creation industry - with more media professionals choosing shared-storage solutions from Avid than from all of our competitors combined," said Chas Smith , vice president and general manager of Avid's video business. " At the same time, the cost of storage per terabyte continues to decline, and we are determined to continue offering best-in-class systems that lead the market in price-performance. By working closely with our suppliers, we've driven down the cost of manufacturing our storage systems, and we're pleased to introduce new competitive price points across the Avid Unity product family."

Designed specifically for storing, accessing, and sharing media in collaborative workgroup environments, the family of Avid Unity solutions offers significant advantages over standard storage area networks (SANs). Unlike other SAN-based storage offerings, Avid Unity solutions integrate seamlessly into the production process, and efficiently deliver real-time, high-resolution media to creative workstations. In addition, Avid Unity systems offer stability in demanding environments, transparency and ease of administration, flexibility and scalability, and deep interoperability with a powerful suite of complementary tools, including asset management, media transfer, transcoding, and archiving solutions.