Cloudian Certified With Evertz Mediator-X

Cloudian, Inc., in enterprise object storage systems, announced that its HyperStore platform has been certified with Evertz’ Mediator-X.

Evertz Technologies Limited is designing and manufacturing audio and video infrastructure for the television broadcast and film industry.

Mediator-X is Evertz’ automation and media asset management platform for managing and automating all elements of linear and non-linear media distribution workflows. Its native support for S3-compatible storage within public, private and hybrid cloud environments, together with Cloudian’ HyperStore limitlessly scalable object storage, provides a solution that delivers accessible media to accelerate workflows.

The combined solution delivers streaming of media to Mediator-X web clients for mission critical content review, quality control and rendering applications. It also allows media objects and ancillary data components, such as caption files and alternative language audio tracks, to be accessed by multiple applications to create ‘just-in-time’ file versions and multiple format deliverable. These same objects can be accessed by additional devices that create real-time linear TV channels.

In this model, Cloudian S3-compatible object storage provides a key enabling technology. By ensuring interoperability across both on-premise and cloud environments, a single system can deliver media assets to play-out channels on-premises, and then migrate assets to ‘cloud play-out’ instances hosted in public cloud services.

HyperStore and Mediator-X combination features benefits including: 

• Compatibility with the S3 storage protocol, eliminates expensive tape library middleware
• Instantly accessible media eliminates delays inherent with restoring assets from tape libraries
• Zero-downtime capacity upgrades with no hardware vendor lock-in
• HTTP network storage protocols provides access to key assets
• Data encryption protects valuable assets from malware deletion or theft
• Cost-effective, petabyte-scale storage

Cloudian’s disk-based active archive addresses significant and growing challenges in media management. Tape-based libraries often fail to provide a fast, searchable view of all assets in the enterprise. Furthermore, distributed media assets can result in redundant middleware installations that drive up CAPEX and OPEX expenditures. Adding to these challenges is the need to dynamically scale infrastructure quickly and in an agile manner.

“As broadcast infrastructures continue to evolve, Cloudian and other S3-compatible storage solutions have enabled us to meet broadcasters’ growing requirements for efficient on-prem and hybrid-cloud workflows,” said Dan Turow, VP of file based solution, Evertz. “Cloudian is an enabling technology partner for us, and we look forward to working with them.“

“Tape-based archives often fall short in today’s broadcast environment where the explosion of content, variety of formats, and accelerated workflows create significant operational challenges,” said Jon Toor, CMO, Cloudian. “The combination of Cloudian’s disk-based active archive and Evertz’ Mediator-X delivers the next big step in overcoming today’s broadcast media storage hurdles by enabling fast media access, end-to-end workflow support, and on-premises plus cloud storage integration.“

HyperStore Advantage
HyperStore is a compatible storage platform for unstructured data consolidation, supporting use cases that include media active archives, file storage, data protection and more. Its low capital costs plus simple management provide limitless scalability and nearly instant media access at a TCO lower than tape.