Active Storage Debuts mMedia Platform

Active Storage Inc., in storage solutions for media and creative professionals, celebrated the UK and European debut of the mMedia platform for production professionals to experience first hand.

The mMedia platform is an end-to-end workflow storage solution for post and broadcast production.

The mMedia platform consists of an ActiveSAN metadata controller appliance, mRAID and mVault, also celebrating their European debut, and optimized management software. The mMedia platform was shown for the first time in the UK and Europe on the BVExpo show floor in London.

The mRAID storage provides the mMedia platform with a storage processing engine, CrossFlow cooling system, a new hot-swappable Environmental Processing Engine (ENV) and 48TB of storage capacity with fast throughput, low latency and the management software to deploy it.

The mVault high-density, near-line archive expansion system provides the mMedia platform by packing a 180TB in an enclosure using 4U of rack space, providing reliable data paths to keep archived content safe and accessible, and increasing overall SAN performance with lower TCO for archive.

With scalable performance and capacity, the mMedia platform allows content producers to deploy custom storage solutions with the integration and management software that lets them choose the best production tools in the industry, resulting in a complete media creation storage platform for storing and managing content from ingest to archive.

"mMedia is the platform of the future for broadcast production," said Alex Grossman, founder and president of Active Storage: "mMedia provides an integrated workflow storage platform with the performance, scalability and configuration flexibility to meet nearly every broadcast and post-production facility’s ingest, on-line and near-line archive needs."

"The announcement of mMedia is extremely exciting as for the first time users have a comprehensive storage platform that goes beyond the feature-set and workflow integration that storage infrastructures have typically offered," said Keith Warburton, director, The Global Distribution Group. "mMedia brings everything in to one solution, providing a performance- and workflow-tuned environment for creative, content rich productions, all with the ease of use, speed of deployment and professional support Active Storage have become renowned for worldwide."

"mMedia is set to shape the future of shared storage," explained Lewis Brown, head of Media & Entertainment at Jigsaw Systems Ltd. "Integrating with all aspects of your collaborative workflow from ingest to archive, it manages to offer flexibility, scalability and ease of management without compromising on performance. It’s a very exciting technology."