Crossroads Supporting DDN Storage MEDIAScaler Solution

Crossroads Systems, Inc. announced it is teaming with Santa Clara, CA-based DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN)

Crossroads StrongBox will be offered as an integrated tier within DDN’s new MEDIAScaler solution providing DDN’s customers scale-out file storage with a tape-based LTFS tier within their end-to-end solution.

StrongBox is a NAS built to simplify data access and provide the most cost-effective, long-term archive storage for unstructured data. The solution offers an LTFS tape solution for storing and protecting long-term and DR data. Customers benefit from movement of data between the performance tiers of MEDIAScaler and the protected archive that features a truly touch-less tape environment.

MEDIAScaler, introduced at NAB, offers performance, file-based storage for large scale media workflows, providing concurrent access to content across hundreds of users while accelerating transcode, reducing hardware footprint, and integrating with LTFS-based tape and the cloud.

The joint StrongBox/MEDIAScaler solution masters the complexity of data preservation by providing highly available access to information, simple data management, and complete protection.

“Crossroads is proud to support DDN’s MEDIAScaler solution with a low-cost content archive,” said David Cerf, Crossroads’ EVP of strategy and business development. “With DDN’s expertise in high-performance storage and Crossroads’ touch-less use of LTFS/LTO, we are able to provide a streamlined solution for media assets with best-of-breed technology.“

“With Crossroads StrongBox, DDN customers gain an easy way to leverage LTFS for their every-growing archives,” said Molly Rector, CMO, DDN. “As media and entertainment content grows in both resolution and speed of creation, these businesses need a reliable solution that can scale in performance and capacity, while balancing cost. Through our collaboration with Crossroads, we are bringing performance and cost-efficiency to our mutual customers’ storage needs.“