Raidix Expands on Chinese Media and Entertainment Market

Raidix Corporation signed up with a Chinese system integrator Cloud Descendant Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. – provider of turnkey video production solutions to major film companies and post-production studios in China.

The Raidix-powered solution allows media customers to boost data access performance and cut time-to-market, and ensures TCO and fault-tolerance.

Cloud Descendant is a Chinese developer of professional video editing and grading appliances. The partner’s clientele encompasses Beijing Film Academy, TV channel France 2-Beijing, DMG Entertainment Media and other brands. In order to bolster throughput and multi-thread HD video processing, the company addressed the Raidix technology.

Raidix delivers a host of benefits to M&E: support for the entire video production lifecycle from ingestion to broadcasting and archiving, high sustainable performance (up to 15GB/s) with 2K/4K/8K workloads due to parallel calculations (in the patented RAID-6 and 7.3 levels), high-speed shared access to data from multiple workstations, and scalability on-the-fly with no downtime or increased latencies.

The Raidix software is compatible with all major hardware interfaces – both SAN (FC, IB, iSCSI, 12Gb SAS) and NAS (NFS, SMB, AFP, FTP) protocols, as well as professional video equipment (Apple, AJA, Blackmagic Design, etc.) and resource-intensive editing software (Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Smoke, DaVinci Resolve, SGO Mistika, and more).

Raidix-based storage solutions are employed by Hollywood and Bollywood studios, international TV channels and post-production companies.

According to various estimates, the Chinese M&E segment may reach $235-243 billion by 2019. At that, industrial storage brands gradually cede ground to hardware-agnostic software-defined storage solutions in video production. Mindful of cost-effective local hardware components and real M&E needs behind $/GB and $/IO/s, Raidix offers the SDS-systems to system integrators and end customers in China, factoring in the key parameters of performance, compatibility and data integrity.