NAB: EditShare Launches XStream EFS 200 and EFS 300 Shared Storage Entry Point Systems

EditShare LLC announced the introduction of the XStream EFS 200 and EFS 300 storage products.

Like other XStream EFS products, these products are based on the company’s file system and provide dynamic performance and fault tolerance while streamlining administrative tasks and providing a plug-and-play upgrade path. Unlike other XStream EFS products, however, the EFS 200 and EFS 300 are the first to provide the option of starting with a simple, affordable and scalable single node solution that also includes the Flow media asset management and Ark media archive applications. This combination of complete workflow support, right-sized capacity and cutting-edge scale-out storage features is for equipping small or emerging media operations and can also become their long-term enterprise grade shared storage platform.

“Obviously, developing an easy-to-manage, high-performance, fault-tolerant scalable shared storage platform that scales out to meet the capacity and bandwidth needs of a typical media enterprise isn’t an easy task. Perhaps even more difficult is the task of developing one that also scales in to meet the needs of small or emerging video companies,” comments Bill Thompson, manager, storage product, EditShare. “Our new XStream EFS 200 and EFS 300 are a great option for the thousands of smaller companies where a multi-node cluster is simply overkill for their needs.”

The XStream EFS storage platform is a distributed, scale-out file system combined with a resilient architecture developed for media-intensive workflows. It’s designed to support large-scale workgroups requiring high-bandwidth, high-volume media ingest, transcoding, online collaborative editing and multiplatform distribution of HD, 2k, 4k and beyond. Whether a one-node or multi-node system, every XStream EFS model can be expanded to increase capacity and bandwidth. For ease of use and administration, all XStream EFS systems present a single namespace, regardless of the system size. And unlike many SANs, the performance of XStream EFS does not decrease as storage use increases. Its continual performance and reliability are backed by RAID-6 technology.

Single node, all-in-one introductory bundle
For a limited time, the company is including a free all-in-one upgrade with the first single node EFS system purchased at any site ^(**). A value of up to $13,000.0, the all-in-one kit includes the extra RAM needed to run Flow, Ark and EFS metadata functions all in one box, plus Flow and Ark software.

XStream EFS 200 front and rear

XStream EFS 200 configuration options
The XStream EFS 200 is a single-node configuration with twelve enterprise-grade HDDs offering 24, 48, 64, 96 or 128TB of raw storage capacity in a 2U space saving form factor. It is ‘EFS Native Client’ compatible. Client workstations connect via a fast, multi-threaded client to achieve a performance boost of 20% or more compared to legacy SMB and AFP network protocols. In addition to media management capabilities like advanced project sharing, the XStream EFS 200 ships with five Flow production asset management licenses and an Ark archiving application.

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XStream EFS 300 front and rear

XStream EFS 300 configuration
For customers who need greater capacity and lower cost per terabybte (usable) than is available with XStream EFS 200, they can step into the EFS 300. Equipped with 16 drives, it provides 28, 56, 84, 112 or 140TB of usable capacity in a 3U chassis. Along with increased capacity, it has additional processor power delivering increased bandwidth capability and stream counts. Like the EFS 200 series, the EFS 300 is ‘EFS Native Client’ compatible and benefits from a performance boost of 20% or more compared to legacy SMB and AFP network protocols. In addition to media management capabilities such as advanced project sharing, the XStream EFS 300 ships with ten Flow production asset management licenses and an Ark archiving application.

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^(**) Program limits one all-in-one bundle server purchase per facility.

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