M&E Shared Storage

Solutions that Simplifies Collaborative Editing

Infortrend offers comprehensive shared media storage solutions for today’s M&E industry dealing with 4K and above ultra-high definition media footages.

M&E industry has lots of different types of services: starting with content acquisition from multiple live view cameras for TV news stations to create/ingest the live content into storage and then broadcast it, to media editing studios/companies like 3D modeling, movie editing/rendering and color grading, and finally archiving content for different project, news, and shows. For small/medium workgroups, these types of different content accessing/archiving behaviors bring up both high performance requirement for 4K/8K high-resolution content acquisition/editing and broadcasting, as well as high capacity archiving solution for PB-level content.

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For Small and Mid-size Workgroups

EonStor GS and GSe are ideal NAS solutions for media collaborations on high-quality videos allowing easy deployment of multimedia playback and streaming applications. They are perfectly compatible with CIFS/SMB, NFS, and AFP network architectures, as well as with such network interfaces for M&E industry as 10/25/100 GbE. GSe is a single controller shared storage solution with high capacity nearline drives or all-flash configurations. For high availability requirements of mission-critical projects, Infortrend offers GS shared storage with dual-controller design and active-standby configuration eliminating system downtime.

Depending on the studio/company scale, Infortrend GS/GSe family provides diverse options for online storage: U.2 series (2000U, 3000U, 3000UT, 4000U) and G3 series (3000 G3, 4000 G3). If you are looking for the most powerful one, GS 4000U delivers ultra high performance that supports up to 86 streams of 4K videos.

Depending on the industry scale, a workgroup can choose a corresponding solution tier to address its workload requirements. In the following topology, GS U.2 series offers a solution for performance-hungry applications: content acquisition group, 4K/8K editing, 3D modeling from editors/design groups, rendering and color grading from effect and graphic workstations, even the broadcasting for TV station.

And finally, after editing/TV project is done, simply use scheduled remote replication to remotely backup from GS U.2 series to GS 3000/4000 and 4U 60-bays JBOD. With the help of EonCloud, the scheduling of cloud backup is also available.

For Business-growing Workgroups

As businesses grow, storage capacity and bandwidth might not be able to keep up with extending requirements. CS, however, allows users to add more nodes into the cluster to increase capacity and performance without interrupting the system operation. By providing up to 100+ GB/s read/write throughput and 100+ PB capacity within the single namespace, CS can easily meet the requirements of your massive media workloads. They are also perfectly compatible with such network architectures as CIFS/SMB, NFS, and FTP, as well as with the high bandwidth 10GbE/25GbE host interfaces for M&E industry for both Internal Network (to exchange data between storage nodes) and Front-End Network (to access media files from workstations).

In comparison to GS solution, EonStor CS is designed for larger scale M&E industry. For the performance-hungry applications with requirement of a large-scale workgroup online storage, Infortrend offers CS 4000, a high-performance model that provides faster data transfer, including 3U 16-bay/4U 24-bay and 4U 60-bay HDD models. An all-flash model, CS 4025B, is also available for online storage to deliver the lightning-speed operations with optimal SSD performance, low latency, and extended SSD lifespan.

As for broadcast and content delivery applications, a cost-efficient solution CS 3000 (4U 24-bay model) is recommended. With the stable Read performance and AV-optimization service, CS 3000 provides to customer an excellent broadcasting experience without any frame drop issues.

After the project is done, a 4U 60-bay cost-efficient and high-density model EonStor CS 2060 can be connected to CS 4000 cluster. Simply use a folder migration function to move your media files from high-performance CS 4000 pool to high-capacity CS 2060 pool to archive inactive files.

EonOne – An Intuitive Storage Management Software

EonOne is a storage management tool that complements well with EonStor GS, GSe, and CS. Infortrend offers two accounts for different management purposes. One account is for M&E User Administrator who is in charge of simple-to-use settings like users’ accounts and storage quota management. The other account is for System Administrator who can do advanced storage configurations, data services settings, and maintenance. EonOne also offers a setup wizard to help a user administrator easily set up storage and network. A user-friendly interface makes it easy to manage user access credentials and shared folders. And finally, it’s easy and fast to deploy the cluster for EonStor CS cluster via EonOne, with the step by step Deploy Guideline it only takes 5 minutes to finish the setup and 30 minutes for cluster ready state.

Flexible Management

Two types of administrator account for simple and advanced settings/ management purpose.

Easy to Use

Web-based user-friendly interface and step-by-step setup wizard lower management complexities

Quick and Easy Deployment (EonStor CS)

5min for cluster setup and 30min to complete initialization

EonView – A Smart Client Utility Software for Easy File Sharing

EonView is a client-based utility for Windows and macOS workstations. Once connected to the storage system, clients installed with EonView can automatically detect IP address of the storage, then they will identify user credentials, and assigned shared folders for each editor will be automatically mounted. This step simplifies the complexities of storage system deployment and network settings and, thus, allows users to focus more on video editing and creation.

• Storage finder and IP configuration: Automatically scans and connect to the shared storage.
• Identical shared folder mounting: Mounts all the available shared folders and ensures all workstations use identical mount points to access the video files.
• Event notification: Sends notifications to workstations if any critical event occurs.
• Auto execution & fast access: Automatically launches after the workstation reboots and mounts the frequently-used shared folder.
• User profile migration: Users can access the shared folders on different workstations with the login credentials.

Non-Linear Editing (NLE) Software Support

For collaborative post-production workflow, the industry leading media editing software are supported: Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve.

Infortrend integrates DaVinci Resolve database into the shared media storage and provides RAID protection, database backup/restore/upgrade and dual controller redundancy (GS) for high availability. Users can edit videos collaboratively when the workstations are connected to the storage, increasing project production efficiency.