Avid Unveils Next Gen Nexis F-Series Storage Engines and Nexis | VFS for Shared Storage Solutions

Avid Technology, Inc. unveiled the next gen of its NEXIS shared storage solutions with the NEXIS F-series family of storage engines and NEXIS | VFS (virtual file system).

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Available, the NEXIS F-series solutions allow media production teams of all sizes to work from anywhere by providing secure, remote access to media and metadata across online, nearline, cloud and archive storage. NEXIS | VFS allows users to deploy NEXIS storage on-premises, in the cloud, or as a SaaS solution, simplifying their ability to collaborate from anywhere, as well as to adapt and grow their business in rapidly changing media production landscape.

NEXIS F-series
With performance that can scale to more than 30GB/s, the family of NEXIS F-series storage engines gives media production organizations the power to accelerate the most complex media workflows. The speed and capacity of this series accommodates business growth, new projects and remote collaboration without disruption or down time. With its modular, cost-effective design, the NEXIS F-series is for any size team, project and workflow.

This generation of NEXIS shared storage systems, which provides storage with no latency or delay for collaborative and real-time workflows, also includes the NEXIS | PRO+ introduction for smaller collaborative teams. The NEXIS | PRO+ delivers the reliability teams demand to optimize the entire lifecycle of their content at every production stage – from ingest, editing, and finishing, to project parking, backup, repurposing and archive. Production teams can tackle these tasks without dropping a single frame – even when working with high-res media in the most demanding broadcast and post-production environments.

NEXIS | VFS
Serving as the brain of the NEXIS F-series and NEXIS | PRO+, the reimagined NEXIS | VFS virtualizes storage into a single pool of shared resources. It accelerates collaborative media workflows by allowing teams of any size to securely access content from anywhere.

NEXIS | VFS software also features built-in intelligence to automate administrative tasks and allow NEXIS F-series storage to adapt to changing workloads without user intervention. From dynamically reallocating storage capacity and optimizing bandwidth to delivering protection with automatic drive rebuild, it provides the agile environment and reliability required for 24×7 operations.

NEXIS | VFS also powers collaboration and fast turnaround, no matter what video, audio, news, sports or graphics production tools are being used. Hundreds of users can simultaneously browse, find and share media and projects from anywhere – in the facility, on location, or at home – keeping their organization’s entire content library and archive within easy reach.

“With remote collaboration now being the norm for most production and creative teams around the world, media organizations are looking to scale their infrastructures and take the next step on their cloud journeys without impacting performance or reliability,” said David Colantuoni, VP product management, video and media solutions. “NEXIS lets organizations of all sizes do exactly that. From powering unmatched collaborative performance to bringing intelligence into media workflows and delivering unprecedented flexibility, NEXIS enables remote operations like never before.”

NEXIS | FLEX subscription
The NEXIS F-series and NEXIS | VFS are available as a subscription offering via the recently announced NEXIS | FLEX purchase plan.

NEXIS | FLEX subscriptions allow NEXIS customers to gain the financial benefits of an Opex business model while also simplifying their ability to migrate from a traditional, hardware-based storage deployment to the cloud or SaaS environment. As such, NEXIS | FLEX customers gain lower cost of entry, business agility and investment protection. NEXIS | FLEX also enables media teams to combine their other Avid subscription solutions such as Media Composer and MediaCentral, providing an all-in-one Opex engagement with the company.