Grass Valley AMS Express 2U NAS For Remote and Smaller Production Applications

Owned by Black Dragon Capital, Grass Valley,  launched AMS Express (Advanced Media Storage) a scalable, performance NAS solution that allows content producers to expand storage capacity.

Opening up feature-rich shared storage capability for small to medium-size media operations, it is for remote production, corporate, education and outside broadcast (OB) deployments.

AMS Express works with the company‘s existing editing and playout solutions, allowing customers to expand capacity without incurring system downtime. Combining compute, network and secure storage capability in a 2RU footprint, the system is cost-efficient, easy-to-use, redundant hardware and can be up and running in hours rather than days.

“Flexibility and future-readiness are very much front of mind for our customers, and the global pandemic has only served to highlight this need further,” commented Marco Lopez, GM, live production. “In today’s environment, broadcasters and content producers need solutions that help them to adapt quickly without interrupting the flow of content. AMS Express meets these needs, allowing customers to grow their storage capacity in step with their business and easily pivot to a remote set-up when needed.“

AMS Express requires fewer boxes and cables than other products in its class, avoiding the need to manage storage with FC or disk allocation. Offering up to 384TB of raw capacity (256TB usable), it is built on top of the StorNext OS and comes pre-installed with the firm’s software for tracking media assets.

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