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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 10 | October 2016

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Storage & Recording
Contributing Editor Jim Evans has the latest from the storage
and recording specialists...

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ncreased demand for higherquality content and multiplatform
distribution is testing the limits of
today's storage solutions, and putting
pressure on media companies to
move sophisticated workflows to more
adaptive and flexible environments.
A new breed of storage solutions
that leverages the latest technology
advances of the IT industry and
is designed for software-based,
next-generation
environments
built on commercial off-the-shelf
(COTS) platforms, with enterprise
storage opens up the opportunity
for media companies to improve the
performance, reliability and costefficiency of current workflows, as well
as evolve their storage resources and
operations to accommodate future
market requirements.
Imagine Communications has
introduced IOX Storage, an all-purpose
shared storage approach optimised for
its Versio playout and automation and
Telurio Over-the-Top (OTT) and cloud
DVR solutions.
"Today's storage systems must
evolve to enable media companies to
fully exploit the agility and versatility
of next-generation virtualised playout
and distribution environments," says
Brick Eksten, Chief Product Officer,
Imagine
Communications.
"We
created an adaptive storage solution
architected with our market-leading
playout and distribution solutions,
helping to ensure that our customers
can fully modernise their operations
by supporting today's workflows
with storage fully optimised for the
performance, scalability, adaptability
and reliability of tomorrow's hybrid
and virtualised environments."
Imagine Communications' Versio
IOX Storage and Telurio IOX Storage
solutions employ a tiered architecture
that
enables
application-specific
performance
tuning.
Imagine
Communications IOX Storage offers

Facilis showcased its Flash/SSD (Solid State Drive) technology, which it has
incorporated within the TerraBlock Hybrid24 and SSD8 products

proven automatic integration of new
storage resources and XStream EFS
High Availability options.
"It's not uncommon for postproduction
workflows
to
start
with uncompressed 4K content
and transition to other production
formats," comments Bill Thompson,
Product Manager for Storage at
EditShare, "As the project progresses,
the loss of media data has a much
more dramatic impact. The XStream
EFS is the first scalable shared
storage solution to permit the type of
storage medium and file protection
to be dynamically adjusted as project
requirements evolve."
"Across our industry, the rapid
proliferation of content is driving
storage
demands
higher
and
higher," says Ed Harper, a Senior
Product Manager in the Avid NEXIS
collaborative storage solutions group.
"Unfortunately,
yesterday's
shared storage solutions don't
provide the infrastructure,
reliability, and control that
media organisations need to
optimise production efficiency
and keep up with growing
content demands.
"At IBC2016, we unveiled new
high-density, high-availability
Avid NEXIS solutions to help
large broadcasters and postproduction organisations increase
operational efficiency and maximise
the lifetime value of their assets. After
delivering Avid NEXIS earlier this year,
we've seen an incredible adoption
rate from media organisations of all
sizes. And now, we're extending the
NEXIS family to provide unrivalled
reliability and performance for the
most demanding environments.

media companies a single, unified shared storage solutions for mission
solution that delivers best-in-class critical applications," comments James
performance and is capable of McKenna, VP of Marketing and Pre
adapting to meet the precise storage Sales at Facilis.
requirements of disparate
workflows.
At
IBC2016,
Facilis
showcased its Flash/SSD (Solid
State Drive) technology, which
it has incorporated within the
TerraBlock Hybrid24 and SSD8
products. While the integration
of SSD technology significantly
increases the available shared
bandwidth for heavy 4K+
production, it's important to EditShare has released its EditShare EFS XStream
correctly and efficiently utilise Shared Storage platform
SSD technology in a broadcast or postEditShare has released its EditShare
production workflow.
EFS
XStream
Shared
Storage
Storage capacity increases have also platform. With this launch, the EFS
been announced across the model storage platform enables users to
line, with substantially lower price mix and match high performance
points, making TerraBlock accessible SSD, performance-optimised HDD,
to the broadest range of broadcast, and cost-optimised HDD nodes in any
post production and corporate users. combination. Accompanying this are
High bandwidth connectivity options powerful Storage Goal features and an
being shown include 32Gbps Fibre expanded suite
Channel and 40Gig Ethernet, as well as of file protection
internal 12Gbps SAS controllers all of schemes,
that
which will deliver increased speed and enable
users
performance.
to match the
"Our customers select Facilis degree of fault
because of our technical knowledge, tolerance with
workflow expertise and a reputation the value of the
for delivering reliable cost-effective media assets on
Avid has extended and enhanced its NEXIS family
a
workspaceby-workspace or project-by-project
The Avid NEXIS | E5 is an enterprisebasis. Even the most sophisticated class, hyper-dense storage engine
EFS configurations still remain that will help large-scale broadcast
easy to manage, easy to scale and and post-production companies meet
ultra-reliable with one management their most demanding production
interface, one set of user accounts challenges.
Imagine Communications - Versio IOX Storage
and one IP network, combined with its
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