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using SMB, NFS and FTP network
protocols. When a file is written to the
cloud object storage via one of the
Cloud Storage Platform and its gateways, it immediately appears as a
StorNext software the solution delivers stub file within the global file system
end-to-end storage for post and on all other gateways.
broadcast.
The solution supports AWS S3, Azure
This platform is a stepping stone for Blob Storage and Wasabi S3 and works
Quantum to move to a more software- with multiple cloud storage accounts,
defined 'hyperconverged' architecture, allowing simultaneous use of multiple
and is at the core of additional cloud storage providers within the
products it will be introducing down global file system.
the line.
Multi-Site Sync is scheduled to be
"StorNext improves collaboration available in May 2020 (priced from
through
comprehensive
multi- US$150 per month) for a system that
protocol access, protects data through manages up to 10 TB of cloud storage
advanced replication and copy and has two gateways.
New functionality in VSNExplorer MAM enables users to derive even more
value from their content/media assets
functionality, and offers automated
EditShare's latest version of its file
in order to achieve more precise backbone of everything, this is what tiering of data to capacity-optimised system and management console is
results.
this new generation of storage enables storage," explains Jamie Lerner, EFS 2020.
News from Crispin is its integration or should enable: maximise RoI across company president and CEO. "This
Unlike generic IT storage systems,
(last year) with Sony's Media Backbone the data centre by maximising NVMe allows customers to maximise the EditShare explains that it has written
NavigatorX for proxy view and prep Flash, reducing hardware to run value of content across its entire its own drivers for EFS, for use with
of on-air schedules. Functionality applications, maximising GPU use.
life-cycle for workflows such as those Windows, MacOS and Linux. EditShare
includes
easy
searching
and
Excelero NVMesh was designed found in postproduction for real- manages the entire EFS 2020
comprehensive browsing of content with cloud as the primary use case. time editing of 4K and 8K content technology stack from the file system
and the ability to review, trim and prep According to Leyden this means and sports environments with tens to OS drivers, which means enterprisecontent in a proxy view.
that for hybrid and private cloud to hundreds of cameras generating level stability and faster video file
News packages created in production deployments its product provides content."
transfers for high-bandwidth, multican be reviewed before air; sales data path separation, no
stream 4K workflows.
teams can search, view and download controller bottlenecks and
It contains File Auditing
customer content and the marketing a 100 percent software
claimed as the first and
department can access promo and only,
no
hardware
only real-time purposeevent content. Schedule needs are dependency
storage
built
content
auditing
taken care of through automatic solution.
platform for an entire
updates to the playlist. All of this
The new F-Series line
production workflow. It
is accomplished without tying up of non-volatile memory
is designed to track all
expensive video server ports.
express (NVMe) flash
content movement on
drives from Quantum
the server, including any
Flexible Hybrid Migration
is for studio editing,
deliberately
obscured
The crisis is going to accelerate rendering, and other
change.
adoption of cloud base infrastructure performance-intensive
NOA
is
focused
but this won't happen overnight. workloads. The company XenData has launched a Multi-Site Sync Service for Cloud Object Storage on
efficient
content
Hybrid storage and workflow systems says it's the most significant product
XenData's new Multi-Site Sync preservation
and
believes
are likely to dominate with a number launch it's made in years because it's service for cloud object storage can broadcasters and production houses
of new innovations happening in this the first based on the Quantum Cloud create a global file system accessible are facing the same challenges.
space too.
Storage Platform.
via XenData Cloud File Gateways.
A systematic in-house digitisation
Whether you call it scale-out flash
The F-Series provides direct access The gateways each manage a local approach, for example, can efficiently
storage (SOFS) or software-defined between workstations and the NVMe disk volume that caches frequently manage more than 60,000 tapes a
storage (SDS), organisations are storage devices and is capable of accessed files. It supports partial year compared to the mere 600 tapes
rapidly embracing new storage options handling multiple concurrent ingest video file restore and streaming and a solely production-driven strategy
driven by a smart software layers that streams and playing out this content scales to 2 billion files, unlimited cloud typically achieves, NOA argues. It
are more scalable, flexible, performant in real-time. By combining these storage and up to 256 TB of local disk therefore plays a significant role in
and lower cost.
hardware features with Quantum's cache at each location.
saving a much larger portion of an
"SOFS solutions are tailored
"The solution optimises an archive in the same period of time,
to modern data centres that
organisation's productivity by helping archivists construct a bigger
are increasingly running dataproviding global file sharing and more coherent audiovisual
intensive workloads," Tom Leyden,
across multiple facilities combined repertoire.
VP corporate marketing, Excelero
with excellent local performance
In order to sustain the effort of
explains. "These data centres are
provided by the local disk media institutions worldwide to
often doubling the demand for
caching," explains CEO Phil Storey.
protect their treasures in a sustainable
storage and processing capacity
Each
instance
of
the way, NOA recently launched a mediARC
every 18 months - while budgets
synchronised gateway runs on user forum (http://www.noa-archive.
are not keeping up."
a physical or virtual Windows com/support/). The project is designed
SDS and SOFS have changed
machine and allows the global file to support AV archivists and create
the calculus of deploying storage
system to be accessed on each interaction and cooperation between
The software-defined Quantum F1000
solutions. With storage as the
local network as a standard share institutions around the world.
NVMe storage appliance

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