EditShare Game Changing Enterprise Storage and Media Asset Management Solutions

EditShare, LLC Broadcast Asia 2015 lineup includes XStream EFS, the company’s distributed, redundant ‘scale out’ storage system that brings enterprise features to a range of facilities at low prices, and Flow 3.2, the release of the company’s media asset management platform.

XStream EFS
Designed to support high-bandwidth, high-volume media ingest, transcoding, online collaborative editing and multiplatform distribution of HD, 2K, 4K and beyond, XStream EFS offers multiple levels of redundancy and scalability. The low-latency storage solution integrates with industry standard broadcast and post-production systems including EditShare’s own Geevs (broadcast servers), Flow (media asset management), and Ark (backup and archiving) solutions, accelerating real-time ingest, editing and playout workflows.

Whenever a file is written to an EFS system, pieces of the data – along with a second level of redundancy information – are spread across multiple nodes ensuring users get the combined speed of the nodes, plus file protection security. The ‘HA’ architecture offers advanced redundancy and data protection features at multiple levels, including redundant metadata controllers, ensuring work continues irrespective of a hardware failure.

Flexible storage capacity options range from under 100TB all the way up to petabyte, allowing facilities to purchase only what they need and expand in the future.

Flow 3.2
It release features new format support, remote collaboration and automation capabilities, a ‘HA’ database option, and other enhancements that help facilities build a more efficient production pipe. Topping the robust feature list are: expanded support for 4K codecs and single-file-per-frame formats such as DPX and CinemaDNG; download capabilities that expand the remote collaboration power of AirFlow, the web-based portal into Flow; and fully automated transcoding and delivery workflows.

Enhancements to AirFlow, the Flow module that enables facilities to make media accessible through their own private cloud, allow users to batch-download both original media files and Flow proxies via a web browser from anywhere in the world, opening up new possibilities for remote collaboration and proxy workflows.

In addition to the wide-ranging format support and remote collaboration capabilities, Flow 3.2 offers Watch Folder and FTP delivery options that will, in many cases, alleviate the need for dedicated transcoding and file delivery tools. With Flow Automation, facilities can automatically watch for all incoming file-based media that arrives at specific locations, and then transcode all new media to a single ‘house editing codec,’ making content ready for editing as quickly as possible.