NAB: EditShare Showcased Mitigates Cybercrime and Costly QC Delivery; Expands Tiered Storage and Remote Workflow

EditShare LLC showcased new capabilities across its XStream EFS scale out storage, Flow media asset management, QUALES automated quality check and file verification, and XStream EFS 40NL nearline storage solutions at NAB 2018.

Attendees will see how the XStream EFS Auditing Dashboard mitigates potential hacking and content theft, as well as how XStream EFS 40NL enhances tiered storage workflows. The company’s media experts will also demonstrated QUALES AQC capabilities as integrated with Flow media asset management, revealing new workflows that lower costs and meet the demands of evolving delivery requirements for OTT platforms. Finally, the firm will showcase for the first time how the brand, software-defined Flow media asset management platform expands remote workflow opportunities and collaboration.

“You can be producing outstanding work, but if your content is not secure and your delivery methodology is spotty, you are putting your business at risk,” says James Richings, MD, EditShare. “With the expansion of IT into media workflows and the growing popularity of OTT platforms, the time is now to ensure your facility has the right security layers and delivery methodology in place to minimize the risk of stolen content and bad file format deliveries. EditShare’s NAB showcase presents new storage auditing, media asset management and quality assurance solutions that address workflow weaknesses with best practice solutions that align with industry standards that will soon become table stakes for doing business.“

Monitor EFS auditing

XStream EFS file auditing capabilities
At IBC2017, the company unveiled EFS XStream Auditing – a purpose-built scale out storage solution with auditing designed for the media and entertainment market. This product provides comprehensive auditing and reporting of all file system activity, including file creation, deletion, modification, opens and reads as well as general media space access. The firm’s auditing capabilities are designed to deter cyber criminals by providing system administrators with a complete digital footprint of all file interactions.

Unique to this solution is the XStream EFS Auditing Dashboard that provides administrators a high-level view of activity with the ability to drill down to individual users and files.

EFS 40NL nearline storage for EFS tiered storage
The XStream EFS 40NL delivers the performance and economics of traditional nearline storage with the scalability, fault-tolerance and ease of use of the EFS shared storage solution. Administrators can add one or more EFS 40NL nodes of cost-optimized storage to an existing XStream EFS storage cluster as well as configure the EFS 40NL as an independent storage cluster for DR or media backup purposes.

QUALES automated quality check and file verification
Now AMWA-compliant for AS-11 UK DPP, the company’s team is paving the way for compliance at the click of a button. The QUALES user interface is designed for the creative, giving an instant visual presentation of the quality-checked file. Flow users, which include producers, post supervisors, editors and other non-engineer staff, will have an visual aid to spot-check content. With QC offered as a core capability within the firm’s Flow media asset management platform, users will be able to systematically QC content at any point across the workflow saving countless hours of production and post-production time.

Flow: Independent software-defined media asset management platform
Announced at IBC2017, Flow will be available as a storage-agnostic software solution and will work with industry-standard storage solutions, providing a layer of content creation, media management and workflow automation that optimizes the entire production workflow. Search, find and retrieve valuable assets quickly and efficiently, while getting content directly into NLE, whether it’s Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro or Lightworks.

In addition to these solutions, the company demonstrates its lineup of products on hand including all scale out shared storage models XStream EFS 450, EFS 200 and EFS 300 scale out storage; and GEEVS multi-channel ingest and playout server.

XStream EFS 40NL nearline storage system

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