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Storage Solutions for Media and Entertainment
Introduction
The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is a significant driver for the development of storage technologies. Infortrend has continuously pushed the boundaries of storage technological advancements to develop cutting-edge solutions, including EonStor GS scale-out unified storage, EonStor CS scale-out NAS, and EonStor DS SAN storage, delivering exceptional performance, density, and scalability, along with complete data protection. They offer a perfect balance of capabilities and cost-effectiveness, allowing you to optimise your budget without compromising performance or quality and empowering you to bring your creative vision to life.
Solution Highlights
Our flagship storage solutions can successfully overcome the main challenges that M&E creatives usually encounter, such as:
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Insufficient performance incapable of supporting collaborative workflows
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Limited rack space to install new storage for growing amounts of content
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Uncertainty in forecasting future storage needs, resulting in additional costs and efforts
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Storage downtime leading to project delays or even revenue loss
High Performance for 4K/8K Content Creation
Creating and editing rely heavily on storage access speed and responsiveness. With support of high-speed NVMe SSD, 100GbE connectivity, and RDMA technology, our storage solutions deliver extremely high performance and reduced latency to handle demanding M&E workflows. Our storage solutions can support up to 250 streams of ProRes 422 HQ 4K video at 60 frames per second (fps) and 28 streams of uncompressed DPX 12-bit 4K video at 24 fps. This provides a highly efficient collaboration environment and ensures that you can deliver compelling stories on time, without encountering any performance bottlenecks.
GS U.2 NVMe hybrid flash storage perfectly meets the needs of 4K/8K video editing, VFX, and rendering workloads. GS SAS HDD storage is well-suited for HD/4K video editing, content delivery, and media asset management (MAM).
Effortlessly Store Media Materials
High-density EonStor GS models in 4U 60/90-bay form factors easily fit in a limited rack space. A single GS appliance in 4U 90-bay design can provide up to 1.5PB of usable storage capacity.
High-density models enable you to store more media materials using fewer appliances. As a result, there will be fewer appliances to manage, along with reduced switch ports required, lower total power consumption, and notably, less rack space needed — all contributing to a lower total cost of ownership.
Scale Your Storage Flexibly as Your Media Assets Grow
With scale-out and scale-up capabilities offered by our storage solutions, you can expand both performance and capacity on demand. This eliminates the need to forecast future storage requirements or manage data silos, saving you additional costs and efforts.
When connected to a JB expansion enclosure, a single GS appliance can hold up to 800 drives. As your media assets or performance demands grow, scale out to up to 4 GS appliances as one storage system. Overall, the solution can provide up to 70 PB of usable capacity.
Industry Leading Software Support
You can seamlessly integrate our storage solutions with your post-production workflows, which use industry-leading post-production software like Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, and NUKE.
Optimize Storage Efficiency
Storage auto-tiering function automatically places ongoing projects on the high-performance SSD tier, while finalized projects are moved to the less expensive HDD tier, which allows M&E companies to avoid wasting expensive storage resources on data that doesn't require it.
To accelerate access to applications and files from ongoing post-production workflows, our storage solutions offer SSD cache, acting as a cache for HDDs.
Protect Your Media Content
Our storage solutions feature redundant controller design that ensures smooth and uninterrupted collaborative workflow and eliminates downtimes caused by single controller failure, preventing any disruptions in data access.
With RAID on drives, your digital assets are protected from data loss. Furthermore, our intelligent drive recovery mechanism provides added protection against file corruption and potential hard drive failure caused by long-term operation. Smart management for SSDs allows for prolonging their lifespan and prevents multiple SSD failures. A built-in supercapacitor provides power to write data to drives during a power outage.
These features ensure data integrity, prevent errors, and guarantee that your files remain secure and accessible over time.
Related Products
⁕ EonStor GS Scale-out Unified Storage
Top Choice for Demanding M&E Post-Production Workflows
Designed for Mid-size Studios: Revolutionise the way your studio deals with the most demanding post-production workflows, even 4K/8K VFX and colour correction tasks. Our EonStor GS features 100GbE, U.2 NVMe SSDs, and PCIe 4.0, which deliver uncompromising performance to ensure smooth and efficient workflows. Utilising 4U 60/90-bay high-density models, M&E studios can effortlessly store media assets within limited rack space.
Use EonStor GS to Build an Extremely High-Performance and Cost-Effective NAS Solution to Support Workloads from Content Acquisition to Content Delivery and Archive: With a wide range of EonStor GS models, including U.2 NVMe hybrid flash and SAS HDD model, you can easily find a best fit solution. These models are fully compatible with CIFS/SMB, NFS, and AFP network architectures, as well as with network interfaces such as 10/25/100GbE that are commonly used in the M&E industry.
⁕ EonStor CS Scale-out NAS
Designed to Store Large Content Volumes: With the ability to add up to 144 nodes, our EonStor CS scale-out NAS solutions provide high scalability to store and stream large volumes of media assets.
Build the Perfect NAS Cluster for Content Delivery and Large-Capacity Archive: EonStor CS models are compatible with M&E network architectures such as CIFS/SMB, NFS, and FTP. They offer 10GbE/25GbE host interfaces, which can be used for both the Internal Network (to exchange data between storage nodes) and the Front-End Network (to access media files from workstations).
⁕ EonStor DS SAN Storage
Designed to Offer Industry-leading SAN Performance: Maximise block-level performance and seamlessly integrate with M&E file systems, such as Apple Xsan and StorNext, to boost productivity.
Use EonStor DS That Fully Supports Apple Xsan and StorNext: EonStor DS is a pure SAN storage solution, ideal for M&E studios adopting a clustered file system, which allows multiple clients to share block storage via a high-speed Fibre Channel or iSCSI network.
Success Story
“Having been a customer of Infortrend storage for years, upgrading the existing storage for broadcasting to an Infortrend solution was a natural choice. We are extremely satisfied with the stability and price of their storage solutions,” said Paul Byers, Executive Director of Engineering at WQED.
“With over a decade of collaboration with Infortrend, customer feedback has been consistently positive,” said Abrahim Rizk, CEO of Intelligent Technology Inc.
