EMC Corporation today announced that ITV has made a purchase of EMC® Isilon® scale-out NAS to provide a storage platform.

The deal will enable the television network to transition to a pan-itv HD file based infrastructure in order to store and manage all content digitally and make it available through existing broadcast channels and the online platforms.

In August 2010, ITV announced its Transformation Plan, aimed at redesigning and refocusing the business over a five-year period. Isilon and ITV have agreed a deal to provide Storage for all ITV production sites and two datacenter’s to allow ITV to confidently scale-out storage in-line with its transformational plan, future growth and success of the business.

Andrew Ioannou, Director of Strategy for ITV said, “We are delighted to have entered an agreement with EMC Isilon to support a core part of ITV’s technology platform. The deal marks continued progress of ITV’s Transformation Plan and a further step in our move towards a fully tapeless environment.”