Archion: EditStor Media Storage Product Line Capacity and Functionality Enhancements

Archion Technologies, Inc. announced that its EditStor media storage product line, comprised of the EditStor EO, EditStor Velo, EditStor Omni and Omni Hybrid, feature additional performance, capacity and functionality enhancements.

EditStor Omni

This announcement follows the conclusion of 2016, a record year for the company of increased company sales and technological advancements. Firm’s shared media storage solutions were utilized to accelerate editorial, finishing and color grading, graphics, and visual effects workflows by a diverse range of clients in numerous fields, including broadcast, film, TV, gaming, government, education and corporate media.

Also during 2016, EditStor products became certified for several industry technologies, including Telestream Vantage and Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd. ‘s Davinci Resolve.

EditStor EO

“During this past year, we continued to make significant technological improvements to our EditStor product line,” said James Tucci, CTO, Archion. “We pride ourselves on our close relationships with all of our clients, and we are strongly attentive to their needs. As they suggest new features that would be beneficial to their storage needs, we listen and work quickly to evaluate the requests and make those improvements within our products.“

EditStor enhancements can be broken down into three categories
performance, capacity and functionality:

Performance:
Already recognized as a provider in providing shared storage for color grading and 4K DPX workflows, and adding to their recently announced Davinci Resolve certification, the company has added Intel Corp. based 40-gig cards to enhance compatibility for Blackmagic Davinci Resolve and Centos 6.8. Adding to this, the firm has also completed DPX and EXR testing of its EditStor Omni storage solution with Digital Visions‘ Nucoda. As a result of continuous testing and fine tuning, speeds have increased by as much as 30% to improve these DPX workflows.

The company has also announced their EditStor product line is compatible with 25GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE fiber optic connectivity options. With firm’s main focus on meeting the demanding workflows, the company has confirmed that these EditStor products will be ready to support them, upon the availability of these higher speed options.

To further improve the EditStor’s performance, the company has doubled the RAM across the product line for faster GUI and system performance. The system supports advanced protocols, such as SMB3 and NFS4.

Capacity:
Already one of scalable performance tier 1 media storage solutions, EditStor can expand to 2.4PB with the addition of up to 10TB drives. In 2016, the company tested and ultimately certified both 8TB and 10TB helium drives. These high capacity HDDs support the same high speed and throughput – the helium platform delivers highest capacity HDD in the industry, the Ultrastar He10. The He10 uses PMR technology and is the first 10TB drive that is drop-in ready for any enterprise-capacity application or environment.

EditStor Velo

Functionality:
With one of the broadest feature sets for media workflows, such as transparent Avid Technology, Inc. project sharing (bin locking,) the firm made several functional improvements in 2016. Company’s APS ShareConnector has just been updated to support Apple, Inc.‘s Sierra OS. It, a mounting tool, has also been improved to enable a single click to mount all shares creating more efficiency with Avid project sharing.

To improve the overall reliability of the EditStor line, the firm offers the SSD for its redundant OS. The SDD technology provides greater write protection and advanced error checking, ultimately providing enhanced performance and protection.

Adding to firm’s ingest methods, the company supports media transfer directly to a share over a USB drive. As an optional way of quickly ingesting media into EditStor, one can copy the media from local NTFS USB drives on the back of any EditStor model.