Spectra BlackPearl Network Attached Storage

Collaboration drives media workflows. Centralizing assets into streamlined shared storage helps media organizations drive collaboration, accelerate production and reduced costs by eliminating separate “silos” of video assets. Centralized storage can help unlock collaborative tools and processes that allow artists, systems and broadcast engineers to leverage common stored assets whether on premises or in hybrid cloud workflows. Dell EMC PowerScale builds on the legacy of Isilon to offer a consolidated, collaborative storage environment that enables concurrent, real-time collaboration with multi-protocol access, integration with key partner software and easy search across multiple storage methods.

Designed as the optimal disk platform for storage of mid-tier data, including primary storage offload, data staging, backup and archiving, BlackPearl Network Attached Storage (NAS) is one of the most affordable enterprise storage solutions on the market, costing as little as pennies per gigabyte. Scaling capacity, performance and platform, the BlackPearl NAS allows users to easily and affordably manage large files while planning for the future. It delivers a complete array of storage and interface options for ultimate flexibility, including: Flash drives, Enterprise SAS drives, and Archive SATA drives – all supported simultaneously. To ensure content is protected, BlackPearl NAS was designed with three levels of protection RAID Z1, Z2 and Z3, global spare drives, redundant power, hot pair, and intelligent drive rebuild. BlackPearl NAS can also replicate itself using asynchronous replication to another BlackPearl NAS, creating a second copy of stored data for a higher level of data assurance.

Unique to the BlackPearl NAS system, is the ability to upgrade the solution with Spectra’s TranScale feature, at any time, to a BlackPearl Converged Storage System, an object storage solution that leverages multiple storage tiers. BlackPearl NAS is innovative because it is the ONLY NAS with three levels of field upgradability, allowing users to start small and plan for the future. Performance upgrades leverage flash-only pools for increased speed; capacity upgrades enable users to scale up to 10.7PB in a single rack; and platform upgrade capabilities allow users to easily TranScale BlackPearl NAS to a BlackPearl Converged Storage System. By upgrading BlackPearl NAS to BlackPearl Converged Storage System, a user’s traditional file system files (CIFS/NFS) can be passed through BlackPearl as object storage to additional near-line disk, archive disk with spin-down capability, digital tape, cloud, a replicated copy to another BlackPearl, or any combination of those storage options – all without requiring expensive middleware.

storEDIT is a dedicated hardware container with up to 120 TB capacity for your media files with high-performance reliability. MOG network shared storage is equipped with SSD and HDD drives that provide versatility and high-capacity storage. It is ultra-compact and lightweight and it features an enterprise RAID controller.

• Virtual Workspaces


• Quota Management


• User Management

• Microsoft Windows


• Apple Mac OS


• Linux

• Growing-files


• Load Balancing


• Dynamic Workspace Quota

• Blackmagic Davinci Resolve


• AVID Media Composer


• Adobe Premiere

The AirShip will achieve weight/volume ratios of better than 20kg/m3.

The product is extremely flexible and can be built according to customers’ needs and applications. It has an outer rugged textile container with a honeycomb polypropylene inner construction and a laminated structure providing rigidity and strength to safeguard the contents.

The inner foam case and HPP construction can be hollowed out to meet respective needs and the outer rugged textile container can be equipped with a multitude of different finishes: wheels, shoulder straps, hinged lids etc.

Where weight is the enemy AirShip is the perfect ally allowing single man use and compliance to IATA standards as and when required. The scale of use had no bounds, from a simple carry case design to a range of fully blown complex lightweight cases.

AirShip was conceived from a client application for an extremely lightweight solution that could accommodate heavy equipment but not impact the integrity of the protective capabilities.

A range of standard sizes are available but AirShip’s capacity to meet customer’s requirements puts it a class above the rest.

MoSMB is an enterprise-grade SMB (Server Message Protocol) NAS file server on Linux for running demanding workloads on modern storage systems. MoSMB supports high performance, high scalability and high availability in heterogeneous environments that include Windows, macOS and Linux computers. With a 64-bit architecture and no hard limits, MoSMB can store tens of billions of files and scale to multiple petabytes.

MoSMB feature list includes:

1) SMB v2 & SMB v3 protocol compliance2) Enterprise grade authentication via Active Directory and Kerberos.3) Support for NTLMv2-based authentication when authenticating local users.4) SMB v3 Encryption and Signing for ensuring safety and security of data.5) Supports VFS filesystems6) Supports S3 Object Store interface7) Choice of Windows ACLs and basic POSIX ACLs for authorization.8) User-ID mapping to map SMB identities to UNIX identities.9) Support for heterogeneous environment consisting of Windows, macOS and Linux clients.10) Single Global Name Space11) Durable & Persistent handles v1/v2 Transparent failover & continuous availability using Witness Protocol Scale-up architecture12) Active-Active Scale-out architecture13) Performance scaling by scaling up CPU and/or RAM.14) Supports RDMA or SMB Direct for high bandwidth and low latency use cases

MoSMB AdvantageMoSMB is a secure, feature-rich SMB file server. Its high performance and scalability can be leveraged for varied solutions including but not limited to:- High Speed File Server- NAS gateway for HPC/AI Storage- NAS gateway for Big Data Analytics- 2K/4K Media and Entertainment Workflows- Backup and Archival

At the centre of your workflow, Media Vault delivers what you demand - performance that is sustained, shared, and scalable across different production departments.

With four 10GbE ports as standard, and options to add four more or even additional 25/50/100GbE ports, Media Vault can be configured to fit seamlessly into any network infrastructure.

Available as a stand alone NAS configuration with 12 drives providing a maximum 168TB or in a 2RU and 4RU rack mount design scaling up to 504TB with optional expansion capabilities. Learn more at https://mediavault.codex.online/

MediaScaleX // Storage is a software-defined, object storage platform that unifies online, nearline and archive storage into a single, shared, scalable cluster.  It enables Media businesses to simplify and cost-reduce storage operations.

With a single UI into an exabyte-ready environment, and the ability to simultaneously store multiple pools of data in file (NFS, SMB) and object (S3, Rados, Swift) formats, MediaScaleX // Storage is one of a kind.  Critical data protection functions like erasure-coding and data scrubbing are standard features to support data integrity and long-term retention.  While in-built support for NVMe, SSD and HDD technologies enables clusters to respond to multiple performance requirements.  Using the open Ceph storage engine at its core, MediaScaleX // Storage is hardened, robust, flexible and above-all built for scale.

Launched in 2015 to address Multi Service Operators' requirements for cloud DVR storage, MediaScaleX // Storage was designed from the ground up to combine high intensity ingest, record and playout processes with the need for deep archiving of VOD and customer-recorded content.  This same solution supports any Media business to unify islands of storage into simpler, more scalable systems.  And with high-performance integration with the MediaScaleX // Origin platform, content can be streamed on demand from any part of the storage cluster.

As Broadcasters and Post-Production operations target storage simplification, more workflow agility and cloud-compatibility, object storage is becoming more important.  MediaScaleX // Storage provides cloud capabilities in an on-premise platform to allow Media businesses to easily scale and manage storage as requirements evolve.

Add smart storage pooling to your shared storage workflows with the Tiger Pool add-on for Tiger Store. This enables you to pool multiple NTFS volumes in a non-destructive way to perform live storage expansion, decommission aging hardware without incurring downtime, and optimize the use of free space available. To users and applications, the pool looks and behaves like a normal volume while each pool volume member preserves its original folder structure. If any pool member fails, you only need to worry about restoring a fraction of your dataset while the rest of your data remains available. You can freely add and remove pool volume members of different manufacturers, LUN size and performance characteristics without ever putting data at risk.

Tiger Store is a cross-platform shared file system solution which enables you to build the most scalable NAS and/or SAN platforms. Tiger Store includes a metadata controller to enable high-performance collaborative workflows, as well as Windows, Mac and Linux SAN and/or LAN client connectivity, delivering the performance that teams of editors, artists, and colorists using Avid, Adobe, Autodesk, Blackmagic and other software need to ingest, edit, transcode and deliver content. Productivity and uptime are maintained with optional High Availability configurations. The Tiger Pool add-on for Tiger Store offers smart storage pooling for simplified data management. Tiger Store is available as a software-only solution or an integrated appliance.

Migrated files remain accessible from the same folders as before, but their contents are tucked away in lower cost object storage. In this way, even legacy Windows applications can leverage the extended capacity. Their data is automatically recalled to primary storage only in the case the file is opened.