Storage Technology

Growing post facility selects EditShare XStream EFS 300 single node scale out storage platform, EFS 40NL nearline storage and Flow media asset management for expanding business needs

Supporting advanced collaborative and remote workflows across Asia-Pacific; new XStream EFS auditing, QScan compliance and Flow software defined MAM are the foundation for creating and delivering world-class content

Features include new IT-centric space management tools and improved storage space reporting

Flash memory provides a needed level of storage performance for media and entertainment applications which now command, for UHD and beyond, massive amounts of storage and speed to meet the growing amounts of content being generated.

Even as a mature, diverse and reliable technology—magnetic spinning disk drives (aka hard disk drives or “HDDs”) continue to grow in capacity, performance and cost benefits. Alternative storage solutions, however, continue to evolve.

Object storage is used heavily in public cloud storage solutions and especially when the data is geographically disbursed for protection and accessibility purposes.

For some time we’ve thought mainly about how file-based storage is used to contain unstructured data; i.e., those files relative to moving (video) or static (photographic) images.

No organization or individual is immune to the problems of limited storage capacity.

Storage systems, whether or not coupled with editing systems, MAMs or other production-related data systems within broad- cast facilities, are all headed in the direction of IP-based infrastructures.

Latency is a continual concern, impacting nearly all forms of media and communication systems.

Since storage has become a key component in nearly all media systems and workflows, one might wonder if “storage analytics”—the detailed information about individual and overall storage elements—are important to operations and management of the entire media production ecosystem.

Over the course of the past decade we’ve seen a proliferation of servers, often as commodity-based products from the usual sources, being added to facilities for nearly every system in the video production equipment room or the delivery network.

Network attached storage, or NAS, continues to expand in acceptance and in capabilities.

As broadcast equipment technologies move closer to information technology-based systems, the way in which we design, build, monitor and account for operational costs is expected to change in near lock step with the technology we’re going to be building—or already are.

Anyone with any type of high-performance storage system for a video playout server, play-to-air system or nonlinear editing solution of any scale has probably experienced this.