Media Engineered Shared Storage

Resilient scale-out storage for collaborative media workflows for live production, news, sports and post.

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EditShare - Your Global Production Partner

Since the first introduction of our shared storage systems over 15 years ago, the EditShare name has been synonymous with innovation and excellence in media and entertainment. As a company, our primary goal has always been to improve workflows and provide intuitive and powerful tools that ease the burden of managing a fast-paced production facility, allowing customers to focus on what’s most important - being creative.

We are dedicated to ensuring your production effort is properly supported. To this end, EditShare continues to strengthen its presence around the globe. With staff located in over 20 countries and offices on three continents, clients can rest assured there is an EditShare staff member on hand to assist.

EditShare Customer Success ProgramWe’re here to help every step of the wayThe EditShare Customer Sucess Program is there to assist you in the event an issue or question arises during the production process. The outstanding customer support offered by the EditShare team will help you maintain the highest system performance throughout the life cycle of your productions. Being a member of our program ensures you always benefit from the latest software upgrades, updates and patches. We’ve got you covered.

Navigating the world of broadcast technologyEditShare’s Professional Services team can help you plan ahead, tailoring and mapping out the future technical roadmap of your production environment. Our Professional Services team provides design, build, commissioning and installation whilst backing it up with onsite Operational Training and/or onsite Technical Training. The EditShare Professional Services team has the commitment, the resources and the expertise needed to cope with the complexity and challenges involved in a wide range of production and post-production installations. Talk to them today.

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EditShare - Emmy® Award WinnerEditShare was thrilled to receive an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). The award recognizes EditShare’s technology contributions in the pioneering development of multi-camera post-production workflows that were developed by the Lightworks team.

“Lightworks multi-camera technology completely changed how things were done in Hollywood, in Soho and beyond. It’s an innovation that laid the foundation for nearly every professional editing application to follow,” comments Tara Montford, managing director, EditShare.

“Pioneering new technologies and workflows is at the heart of what we do, from developing the first Avid and Final Cut Pro project sharing in EditShare Shared Storage, to making automated QC available across the entire workflow with QScan QC.” Montford adds, “We accept this Emmy® with great pride and joy, and we want to extend a special congratulations to the Lightworks developers who continue to innovate across our Flow Production Asset Management platform today. We also want to extend our sincere gratitude to our customers who provide us with the inspiration and support to push boundaries and deliver the very best tools that enable them to bring their creative visions to life.”

The same technology that went into Lightworks over the years is now at the heart of Flow Story, an application aimed at fast-turnaround environments such as News and Sports. Flow Story provides journalists and production teams with the ability to edit using a mix of local content as well as streaming proxy files coming from remote Flow locations enabling stories to be easily packaged for delivery or playout.

Achieving your potentialThe EditShare Academy provides sales and technical training with certification to our valued customers, channel partners and other video professionals using EditShare solutions. The Academy will offer a mix of instructor-led and e-learning courses designed to take students from beginner to expert in EditShare tools and workflows. The Academy offers sales and video professionals, creatives, workflow consultants, and IT managers a structured curriculum that culminates in industry certification in one of three areas: EditShare Associate, EditShare Engineer and EditShare Sales Professional.

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EFS Enterprise Storage Cluster

EFS Intelligent scale-out distributed file systemThe EditShare File System is uniquely tailored for media-centric environments. EFS presents a single namespace that eliminates management of multiple storage volumes. Adding capacity is seamless, simply connect another Ethernet-base storage node; production continues as before while the EFS automatically rebalances the distribution of data.

An EFS system can be a single storage node or configured as an enterprise cluster with a mix of technology including SSDs for high data rate content and SATA HDDs for cost-efficient, performance storage. Administrators can choose from a variety of file protection mechanisms to match content value and storage cost, and in an enterprise environment it’s easy to allocate dedicated storage resources and file protection to individual departments or workgroups.

The EFS architecture enables outstanding performance by eliminating sources of delay and latency. The combination of dedicated metadata servers, optimized metadata structure and managed transactional intensity means that every frame of every file is delivered on time, every time. Plus EFS replaces legacy protocols with a low latency, high-performance Native Client connection that significantly increases bandwidth and enables bonded client connections. EFS native drivers are available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

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EFS Shared Storage Key FeaturesAccelerated, flexible performance �� High-bandwidth, low latency architecture for uncompressed 4K and beyond

�� Unique ‘SwiftRead’ intelligent system protocol manages and eliminates access contention

�� EFS Native Client (macOS, Windows & Linux) direct connection to all storage nodes and metadata controllers enhances bandwidth performance and availability

�� Configure Media Spaces with appropriate HDD or SSD-based storage for ultimate versatility

Resilient and secure �� Distributed file system and multiple levels of hardware redundancy ensure the highest level of data protection

��Multiple levels of RAID that increase both reliability and performance

�� High Availability options to increase uptime with ‘no single point of failure’ infrastructure

�� Choice of file protection mechanisms to suit content value and cost

Tremendous scalability �� EFS provides non-disruptive and cost-effective scaling up to 5PB+ with hundreds of millions of assets

�� Redistributes content across an expanded system with no downtime for users

�� Forward thinking architecture that maximizes the amount of usable storage available as capacity expands

Collaborative�� Unlimited users get simultaneous access to media plus project sharing/bin locking and support for the leading NLE’s and creative finishing tools

�� No per-seat client licenses

�� Open platform for integrated media workflows - ingest, editing, packaging, delivery and playout

�� Unique integration with EditShare PAM and backup / archive solutions

Intelligent administration�� Single namespace file system – expands with additional storage

�� Simple IT integration - 10 GbE and 40 GbE networking

�� Daily Health Report and email alerts indicates system status and health

�� Active Directory Single Sign On support

�� Remote administration from any Windows, Mac or Linux client

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EFS 450 is designed to meet demanding bandwidth, storage capacity, fault-tolerance and management requirements of large-scale workgroups and media operations. A 3-node, 96TB entry-level cluster provides over 2.3GB/s of bandwidth and its native XOR protection will tolerate the loss of an entire storage node. Bandwidth and capacity are expanded linearly by simply plugging in additional storage nodes to reach over 5PB of capacity. While being expanded, an EFS 450 can continue to support production while background processes distribute data to newly-added nodes.

Thanks to its RAM-based EFS Metadata servers, the EFS 450 insures that Reads and Writes are processed quickly. Our unique SwiftRead feature manages resource contention that arises in shared storage environments to prevent dropped frames on ingest and playout operations. Lastly, two or more metadata servers can be paired to create a true high-availability environment.

3 node EFS, 4TB drives, Native Client

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Enterprise-grade storage for the world’s largest post-production environments.

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High-bandwidth, SSD storage for collaborative high-resolution 4K/UHD, VFX, DI and FinishingEFS SSD shared storage is built for all facilities facing the challenge of 4K/8K content creation, collaboration and delivery. Combining Solid State Drive (SSD) storage nodes with the proven EFS architecture, EFS SSD is specifically engineered for bandwidth hungry formats such as uncompressed DPX, DNxHR 444 and ProRes 4444, the mainstay of 4K/UHD, Digital Intermediate (DI), VFX and Finishing projects.

Designed to stand alone or as part of an existing EFS HDD-based infrastructure, and making the migration to high-bandwidth 4K/UHD cost efficient and seamless, EFS SSD is available in 24TB, 48TB and 96TB configurations that can be upgraded to multi-node clusters. Equipped with either Dual 40GbE or Dual 10GbE LAN technology, EFS SSD can be the basis of a dedicated UHD production environment or integrated into an existing production infrastructure.

Its combination of SSD storage and a multiple RAID controllers enables a 24 drive chassis to deliver bandwidth exceeding 5 GB/s, easily fulfilling any demanding uncompressed HD, 4K and DI requirements.

Ideal enterprise storage solution for high-end media productionEFS 300 delivers the performance and capacity required for today’s largest media-centric environments. Beginning with a 16 drive configuration providing generous bandwidth, the EFS 300 platform can scale from a single 32TB master node that includes Flow asset management and ARK archive workflow tools, to a fully expanded 1PB+, resilient Enterprise cluster.

Expansion to a multi-node cluster provides further performance benefits by enabling parallel transactions between workstations and storage nodes to avoid the typical contention “hot spots”, while always presenting a single namespace to simplify system administration. Also, depending on the number of nodes present, an EFS 300 can support XOR and COPY protection schemes that can tolerate the loss of one or more storage node for added resilience.

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High-performance scale-out storage for small or emerging media facilitiesEFS 200 is scale-out shared storage that delivers the benefits of EditShare File System in a size that meets the capacity and budget requirements of boutique collaboration teams and smaller media facilities. With its simple building-block approach, scaling capacity and bandwidth as the needs of the organization grow is as easy as plugging in additional storage nodes.

Beginning with a 12 drive single node configuration that also includes Flow Asset Management and ARK Media Archive applications, EFS 200 offers simple and cost effective scalability up to 360TB. A single master node will support the addition of 2 additional storage servers. A fully expanded configuration of 3 storage nodes can be achieved by adding a dedicated metadata controller and FLOW and ARK servers.

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Cost optimised parking and nearline storage for EFS environmentsThe 40NL is a storage node that’s intended for “parking” media that still needs to be accessible almost instantly, but which doesn’t need the extreme speed called for in the middle of an online production workflow. It’s the ideal product to save material you know you’re going to need soon - but not right now. It costs significantly less than production-speed storage and yet it still has all the robustness and reliability of EFS.

One or more EFS 40NL “parking” nodes can be added to an existing EFS shared storage cluster for unused media assets that would otherwise take up valuable online storage. It’s easy to use, because EFS 40NL uses the same namespace as EFS Production Storage, which means there are no complicated procedures or routines to move content between systems. You don’t even need to import or export. It’s all just there - in the same virtual place.

To safeguard against failure of production storage, EFS 40NL nodes can be combined with an EFS Metadata server (multiple for high-availability) to function as a low-cost, fully-independent failover cluster. With the addition of the metadata server, each storage cluster will support a single namespace that will remain unaffected should a disaster destroy the other. Replicating content is easy with the EditShare Sync Tool.

EFS 40NL is going to change the way creative people think about nearline storage. It’s a new way to simplify your production lifestyle.

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Asset security is the big topic in digital media asset storageEver since the production cost of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘True Lies’ broke the US$100M ceiling in 1994, movie budgets have continued to spiral upwards. A similar growth trend is also evident in television production, largely stimulated by the emergence of the Internet as a delivery medium. Across entertainment sectors, it’s clear that digital assets are big business and protecting assets is an ever greater concern.

EditShare has been working behind the scenes to meet this need. Our File Auditing solution offers comprehensive monitoring and reporting and provides System Administrators with an eagle’s perspective over all storage activity, from an overview of drive space utilization and system performance, down to fine-grain real time analysis of every user’s actions in each EFS storage pool – including Media Space access, file creation, deletion, reads, moves and modifications. Not a single action or operation can take place without leaving a highly detailed audit trail. This auditing data can be exported easily to third parties - including other auditing applications.

EditShare File Auditing is the answer to the emerging need for extreme accountability by facilities responsible for high value content.

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