NAB: OpenDrives Unveils Lineup of Shared NAS Solutions

OpenDrives LLC announced its 2018 lineup of shared network-attached storage (NAS) solutions.

The range features a breadth of offerings across market tiers, including two all-new offerings designed to be accessible to small teams and mid-sized editors, visual effects artists, colorists and graphic artists.

Debuting accessible professional-grade offerings
Addressing the growth of the SMB market, the company has released two professional-grade offerings: Pinnacle hybrid storage and Alta all-flash storage that allow smaller teams to collaborate on very large files in near-real time. Pinnacle is a hybrid HDD/NVMe storage solution featuring up to 288TB capacity and UHD ProRes 422 LT/UHD ProRes XQ/DNxHR HQ/R3D 4KFF 8:1 compression stream counts, delivering up to 5Gb/s aggregate throughput. Alta, an all-flash storage product, features up to 144TB capacity and three-streams of 4K uncompressed UHD 10-bit stream counts, delivering up to 10Gb/s aggregate throughput performance.

Redesigned and upgraded performance offerings
The company’s product range also includes the enterprise Apex, Summit and Ridgeview systems designed to address a multitude of high-demand big data workflow environments. Summit is a hybrid HDD/NVMe storage solution featuring up to multiple petabyte capacity, UHD 10-bit uncompressed performance and up to 9Gb/s aggregate throughput via a new media accelerator driving low latency and strikingly faster loading, scrubbing and other operational performance. Apex is a performance all-flash storage solution, featuring up to multiple petabyte capacity, a six UHD 10-bit stream count and 18Gb/s aggregate throughput capability. Finally, the upgraded Ridgeview is the company’s enterprise flexible high-density storage solution for active archive featuring up to multiple petabyte capacity, for use as a backup tier working with the firm’ OmniBackup multi-threaded fully-checksummed backup engine delivering 4TB per hour of secure backups.

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Designed and optimized storage OS
Keeping with major shifts in its product offerings, the company has released Atlas, a Omni-Management OS to replace its prior storage O/S, Opus. Atlas features capabilities to optimize performance and protect data, such as OmniDrive native media accelerator, OmniLogic predictive data usage analysis and OmniIntent, an intent-based bandwidth distributor, among other optimization-focused functions.

“For too long, the storage industry has focused on increasingly faster drives, while ignoring how the file system reads and writes data”, Chad Knowles, CEO, OpenDrives explained. “Storage technology has traditionally struggled to deliver great performance because of the focus on selling capacity over value. OpenDrives is focused on the efficiencies gained by optimizing how data is read, written and managed by the file system. Being the only provider truly optimizing those efficiencies, OpenDrives delivers greater performance by accommodating larger files in near real time with more concurrent users. We’re proud to release our 2018 solutions range delivering on that promise.“