BlackPearl Object Storage Disk

The Spectra® BlackPearl® Converged Storage System solves the problem of costly and complex approaches to digital preservation by combining multiple standard interfaces and storage targets into a simple and affordable solution designed for diverse workflows. BlackPearl incorporates feature-rich software within the ultimate purpose-built hardware platform to modernize content storage. It’s a self-managing, cloud-enabled object storage platform that provides organizations with the openness, scalability, efficiency and control they demand to easily grow and adapt to changing business models. BlackPearl tightly integrates with industry-leading asset management applications to simplify workflows, seamlessly managing large volumes of content. The solution unlocks multiple storage targets including online disk, nearline disk, deep storage tape, and even public cloud. Through BlackPearl’s advanced data policy management software, data can be stored on any storage target and policies can be applied to determine how many copies will be made on each storage target and how long the data will reside there.

Data can be archived to Spectra Logic storage targets via several different paths or workflows. Manual file movement is employed when the user can identify the files to be moved themselves. Advanced scanning software can search a file system and identify files to be archived based on date, project or other criteria. Fully automated archiving software can continuously scan and archive inactive files while still allowing users to access the files as they always have. And applications intended for other specific tasks, such as video asset management software, can allow users to archive directly to Spectra storage without leaving the application.

Spectra’s BlackPearl Object Storage Disk delivers long-term disk-only storage for the price of tape. Powered by Spectra’s BlackPearl Converged Storage System, BlackPearl Object Storage Disk provides organizations with object-based, disk storage that scales in capacity and performance with a very low total cost of ownership (TCO).

Engineered for data reliability and integrity, Spectra’s unique implementation of ZFS software brings new life to disk storage. BlackPearl Object Storage Disk creates an on-premise cloud with a Spectra S3 interface to make archive storage more accessible. And the 16TB disk drive extends storage capacities to more than 15.4 petabytes (PB) in a single BlackPearl Object Storage Disk solution.

The spin-down disk technology of BlackPearl Object Storage Disk intelligently powers down bands of storage when idle, minimizing disk degradation and extending the life of the disks up to seven years. This powerful feature alleviates the need for a subsystem refresh in three or four years, providing significant cost savings in procuring and deploying a new system.

Perfect for tapeless IT environments, BlackPearl Object Storage Disk is also a cost-effective complement to environments with tape storage that need affordable long-term online data protection.

Object Matrix On-Prem is the media focused solution that is deployed in-house or at the organisation’s data centres. The solution ensures creative professionals have the fastest, most secure access to content using the tools and applications that they’re familiar with. It is designed to meet the security, performance, collaboration, and access challenges faced by organisations creating, ingesting, logging, editing, sharing, distributing, and archiving large volumes of video content.

Object Matrix On-Prem can be deployed stand-alone or as a part of a unified storage platform, synchronising across multiple geographies for business continuity or global collaboration with other MatrixStore installations, OM Cloud, or other cloud services.

Object Matrix Product highlights:

•      Intelligent data and metadata protection ensures you will always be able to find, use, and share your content with internal or external teams


•      Future proof and non-disruptive scale ensures you will never run out of room for your 8K videos, photography stills, or project documentation


•      Business rules support to ensure your organisation is seen to put data protection, audit, and content security first


•      Built-in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity ensures organisations can keep working in the event of a local outage


•      Unique Process in Place (PiP) functionality processes the data where it lives providing a platform to put AI at the heart of your workflows


•      Standard interfaces and formats ensure you are not tied into a proprietary platform (SMB, NFS, FTP, S3, and MatrixStore API access)


•      MatrixStore works with the tech you work with ensuring a smooth and seamless integration into your daily workflows: Avid, Adobe, Vidispine etc.


•      Direct file system access to your objects on Mac, Windows, and Linux

More information:https://www.perifery.com/products/object-matrix/

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. The rugged outer textile container can be equipped with a multitude of different finishes: wheels, shoulder straps, hinged lids etc.

Where weight is the issue 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 originally conceived from a client application for an extremely lightweight solution that could accommodate heavy equipment without 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.

The HyperStore Xtreme is made possible by combining two next-gen technologies:

• Super-dense hardware platform: Seagate supplies a major part of the hyperscaler infrastructure. Now, the most cutting-edge technology is available to you at the same time the hyperscalers get it.




• Scale-out object storage technology: All hyperscalers rely on scale-out object storage to power their scalable storage environment. The same technology can be part of your shop as well.

The combination give you the benefits previously enjoyed only by the largest cloud providers.

Your competitive advantage is space and cost efficiency. With this design, Seagate has streamlined drive and system integration to accelerate time to market by at least 6 months. This helps you get more efficient gear and get it sooner. This is the first platform with 16TB HDDs in a super-dense 96 drive chassis. Delivering 1.5PB capacity in just 4U of rack height, it also features 1.9TB SSDs for fast metadata access, dual Xeon Silver-based controllers, and eight 10Gb ports.

Running on the Seagate chassis is Cloudian’s award-winning software that delivers S3-compatible scale-out enterprise storage. This proven platform offers the industry’s most compatible S3-API, exabyte scalability, exceptional data durability, policy-based data management, and built-in cloud integration with AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Private cloud is the fastest growing segment of IT, exceeding the growth of public cloud over the next three years, according to IDC.  Shared services are the path to efficiency, whether at your own facility, at a colocation facility, or at an MSP. Cloudian HyperStore Xtreme offers a rich feature set that make it the ultimate environment for building your private cloud.

• Performance that thrills: Up to twice as fast as the original SSD
  
  
  
  • Up to 3200MB/s1 read
  
  
  • Up to 2400MB/s1 write
  
  
  
  


• Room to spare: Up to 2TB, 16x greater capacity than original SSD


• Less is more: Consumes less power and runs cooler than earlier models


• Feels like home: Same Mac, faster SSD, your keyboard, your stickers and the ports you need


• Revival of the fittest: Speed and stamina for years to come

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.

DataCore’s state-of-the-art Perifery Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro streamlines access to content directly from DataCore Swarm and SymplyPerifery appliances. Editors can just drag and drop media into the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline, without having to use search tools outside the application, and they can instantly enrich metadata and classify digital assets for rapid retrieval. The Perifery Panel significantly speeds up production workflows so projects can get done faster.