STORAGE FOR THE MEDIA & BROADCAST INDUSTRY

The content upsurge is evident and the media and broadcast industry transitions to higher resolutions thereby reaching the limits of their storage environments. One has to consider all of the variables and make the right storage choice that will meet both current and evolving needs.

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AVID’S NEXIS SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE PLATFORM

Avid’s NEXIS software-defined storage platform for storing and managing media leverages the company’s MediaCentral Platform. Avid NEXIS provides dynamic virtualization, adaptive protection, and media-savvy collaboration so media organizations of all sizes can accelerate production and increase efficiency. Recent additions to the NEXIS family provide high-density and high-availability solutions. In a continued move to a more open editing environment Avid says Avid NEXIS work with the top media creation applications, including Media Composer, Pro Tools, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Grass Valley EDIUS. Avid also says that NEXIS will work with cloud storage as well as local storage.

Avid NEXIS | E5 is an enterprise-class, hyper-dense storage engine that offers real-time editorial collaboration and the highest levels of scalability, performance, and client connections for large-scale broadcast and post-production environments. Avid NEXIS | E5 provides 40GbE connectivity and 80– 480 TB of storage capacity per engine, with the ability to scale up to 1.4PB of capacity and 9.6GBps of bandwidth, supporting more than 2000 Avid DNxHR HD streams or 500 Avid DNxHR 4K streams across over 300 connected clients in a mere 17U of rackspace. The Avid NEXIS hardware family is shown below:

Avid NEXIS High Availability options increase the reliability and performance of Avid NEXIS E-class storage systems for the most critical deployments. The Avid NEXIS Redundant Storage Controller, Redundant System Director, and Redundant Networking options protect against potential hardware performance issues, while the Media Mirroring option protects an entire Avid NEXIS system against up to five simultaneous disk failures, and even an entire engine failure.