What Is ISIS?

ISIS, is one of the most popular divinities in the Greco-Roman world. She originally came from Egypt, where she was the sister and wife of the slain god-king OSIRIS.

Possessed with great powers, Isis wandered in search of the dead Osiris, and eventually found and embalmed him, thus enabling his eventual resurrection.

The son of Isis and Osiris, HORUS, succeeded his father as king.

In Egypt there were mysteries of Isis and Osiris, which mythologically enacted the death of one pharaoh and the succession of another.

When the worship of Isis and Osiris was imported to Greece and Rome, it took on many HELLENISTIC CHARACTERISTICS. Although the Egyptian legend remained the same, Isis in particular took on the features of other goddesses.

She embodied the ideal of femininity, and was a model sister and wife and a great mother. It is not surprising that when Christianity became popular, shrines to MARY often emerged at ancient Isis worship sites.

When Christianity triumphed, the worship of Isis, like that of many other "pagan" deities, disappeared.

With interest in goddess worship, however, Isis has enjoyed renewed popularity over the years.

First, there were the CBS TV shows SHAZAM!/ISIS HOUR (1975-1977) and THE SECRETS OF ISIS (1977-1978).
22 episodes were made.

ANDREA THOMAS (ISIS) was a high school science teacher on an archeological dig when she found an amulet. It was a mystical amulet that was given to an Eqyptian Queen. Whoever wore the amulet was given great strength, the ability to move inanimate objects with her incantation, and the power to fly and run at super speed.

Whenever ISIS was needed, Andrea would hold the amulet up in the air and shout an incantation.

ISIS used her powers for good by capturing criminals, righting wrongs, and helping anyone that was in danger.

The series also starred JOANNA CAMERON.

Shazam!/Isis Hour/The Secrets Of Isis TV Series

As a result of CBS TV show, ISIS became such a popular character it was spun off into an ISIS Saturday-morning cartoon series in the late 70s.

This is all a great ISIS history lesson, but what's this REALLY about?

AVID today unveiled it's next-generation shared-stored solution in the Avid Unity family -- AVID UNITY ISIS MEDIA NETWORK.

Unlike other storage area network (SAN) devices that rely on centralized intelligence to manage data, THE AVID UNITY ISIS SYSTEM introduces an industry first -- INFINITELY SCALABLE INTELLIGENT STOARGE (ISIS) that leverages a distributed-intelligence architecture.

This revolutionary 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.

With its distributed intelligence architecture, THE AVID UNITY ISIS SYSTEM has no inherent storage or connectivity limitations and avoids bottlenecks that can occur in storage systems that use centralized intelligence.

The result is a real-time shared workflow that delivers virtually unlimited storage headroom, extraordinary resiliency, and vast client connectivity.

Avid Unity Isis Press Release

Avid Unity Isis Product Brief

[Finally, we can talk about this! Where's my mystical amulet? Now we all know what the "Isis Rising" posts on the Yahoo Avid User's Group refer to.]