DDN MEDIAScaler Storage Appliance Attracts Technology Partners

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN), announced that its MEDIAScaler storage solution, a storage appliance tailored to meet the rising requirements of media and entertainment (M&E) bandwidth-intensive workflows, has been integrated with Adobe Creative Cloud, Crossroads Strongbox, Green International Consulting (GIC), MediaPower, Srl, Tiger Technology and QStar Technologies, Inc.

The collaborations offer customers open solutions that simplify and accelerate workloads, increase flexibility and reduce production time and cost.

DDN storage and processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve high levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. They enables enterprises to extract value and deliver results from their information. Customers include online content and social networking providers, cloud and grid computing, life sciences, financial services, media production, and security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide, DDN’s solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in data centers to ensure competitive business advantage for information powered enterprise.

“Large scale, geographically distributed workflows present an acute challenge for M&E companies contending with ever increasing data intensive workflows,” said Molly Rector, CMO, EVP product management and worldwide marketing, DDN. “Since its inception six months ago the MEDIAScaler solution has gained wide market traction as the powerful, shared storage system solves workflow challenges in rich media and enterprise applications, using Mac, Windows and Linux platforms for Avid, Apple, Adobe and other creative tool support, including 4K workflows.“

Integrated with the capabilities of its media ecosystem partners, MEDIAScaler’s pre-certified solutions reduce time to market and bring benefits to post-production and broadcast studios. MEDIAScaler appliance offers the ability to scale to hundreds of petabytes while sustaining high mixed I/O performance, and is becoming the standard for media customers looking to tier, archive and collaborate across multiple environments for accelerated workflows and the fastest time to market.

Certified DDN MEDIAScaler partners include:

Adobe Creative cloud
DDN MEDIAScaler storage solution is available to video production teams using Adobe Creative Cloud, providing performance, scalability and flexibility for collaborative media workflows. In collaboration with Adobe, DDN’s MEDIAScaler storage solution provides fifteen nines of reliability and near-zero administrative overhead along with concurrent access to content across global users.

DDN storage solutions integrate media workflows under a single namespace, which allows users to create useful content faster, manage multiple projects in parallel and achieve a new level of commitment with their content. Real-time collaboration and the ability to tier to private, hybrid cloud and/or tape permit even greater flexibility. MEDIAScaler’s support for Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Adobe After Effects CC, and the other Adobe video applications allows users to reduce costs and improve ROI by shaving content delivery time, including 4K/UHD/HDR workflows.

Crossroads Systems
DDN offers an integrated, low-cost, LTFS tape archive tier in partnership with Crossroads Strongbox. The solution simplifies data preservation by DDN MEDIAScaler LTFS tape archive as part of a single storage solution. Offering performance tiering to LTFS tape and the cloud, DDN solutions deliver the optimal cost/performance and cost/capacity for the entire media workflow.

Green International Consulting
The integration of GIC’s Digital Video Processor (DVP) with MEDIAScaler provides a performance, cost-effective solution for studios, networks, over-the-top content and post industries. The solution passed high bandwidth I/O tests for uncompressed 4K, UHD, HDR mastering and QC, and parallel transcode and delivery operations for a joint customer. Additionally, IMF, DCP, ProRes, and HEVC files were processed in real time while simultaneously analyzing audio, video and timed text (subtitle and caption) for both integrity and synchronization.

MediaPower
MEDIAScaler and MediaPower AirGo create a complete integrated layout solution for small and big broadcasters. The joint solution is the platform for managed playout services due to its scalability, enterprise features and information lifecycle management capabilities, integrating online storage, object storage, tape and cloud in a single platform.

Tiger Technology
DDN and Tiger Technology have developed a joint workflow solution that automates the assignment of the right data to the right type of storage at the right time, and allows users and administrators to increase the ability to work collaboratively, while keeping the cost of shared storage low. The integration of Tiger Series appliances with DDN MEDIAScaler storage, allows users to benefit from an efficient approach for automated data life-cycle management and collaboration that is easy to deploy, easy to use, and transparent to connected users.

QStar Technologies
QStar and DDN have certified QStar’s Network Migrator to migrate files from various performance storage solutions and across MEDIAScaler storage tiers based on preset policies, such as last accessed date. Files are then sent to QStar Archive Manager, which supports a variety of archive technologies including private/public clouds or LTFS tape, thus enabling movement from DDN MEDIAScaler. In addition, the joint solution provides a number of optional advanced features including retention management, hashing and encryption.

DDN MEDIAScaler is a performance, file-based storage solution for large scale rich media workflows. The solution provides concurrent access to content across global users while accelerating transcode, reducing hardware footprint and integrating with the cloud. It is designed for massive numbers of concurrent users, enabling more than 10,000 simultaneous users both on-premise or in the cloud in a single hostname/namespace. Performance-optimized, it can sustain performance at more than 90% system utilization, share high- and low-performance clients in a single storage infrastructure and provide intelligent cluster management to leverage performance node. It also offers content protection and availability with integrated bandwidth-optimized replication options, snapshots, online capacity expansion.