EditShare Energy: Storage System for Media Sharing

EditShare LLC unveiled Energy shared storage product line at the NAB 2011 exhibition.

Designed for small and mid-size production workgroups, the new Energy Series provides over 700 MB per second read and write performance per server or expansion chassis.

"EditShare first exhibited in Las Vegas eight years ago offering a single 2TB shared storage system," said Andy Liebman, founder and CEO of EditShare. "This year, we showcase a robust tiered storage environment featuring the brand new price-busting Energy Series along with XStream, our highest performing shared storage solution, which can scale to petabytes. We have always been about giving customers tremendous value and our new mid-range Energy models out-perform comparable solutions like Avid ISIS 5000 – at a price point that is significantly more attractive."

The new EditShare Energy Series offers Avid and Final Cut Pro project sharing. Project sharing lets editors draw on the same central pool of media and work in the same project simultaneously – freely and safely sharing raw material, bins and sequences. No per-seat license and media-optimized Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections support workgroups and high stream counts with simplicity and cost-effectiveness.

EditShare Energy Feature Highlights Include:

• Performance: Outperforming its competitors, the new mid-range Energy Series has a benchmarked performance of 700MB/s per 16-drive for a 3U system.
• Resolution Support: EditShare shared storage systems support a range of resolutions from DV25 up to full 2K DPX.
• Real-time Project Sharing: EditShare Energy offers advanced project sharing with sequence and bin locking for Avid, Apple FCP, and Lightworks editors.
• Real-time Collaboration: Energy facilitates real-time media sharing for users of Avid Media Composer, Avid DS, Final Cut Pro, Lightworks, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, EDIUS, Smoke, Resolve, Digital Vision and more.
• Scalability: One SAS expansion chassis can be added to all Energy systems, allowing up to 40 drives per system. In addition, through EditShare’s Extreme Scalable Architecture (ESA) technology, multiple Energy servers can be put together along with XStream or Metro servers to create an expandable managed storage network.   
• Universal Media Files: When combined with any Flow product, EditShare storage gives Universal Media File support, allowing Avid and Final Cut Pro editors to share and edit the exact same media files and exchange sequences between the two applications – without transcoding, relinking, duplicating media or re-rendering.
• Connectivity: Media-optimized Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections support large stream counts.
• No Per Seat License: Add users as needed and accelerate your return on investment.