Post production, creative agencies and facilities that work with raw camera footage and compressed video often fall into the trap of purchasing a SAN when one wasn’t needed in the first place. Because of its low latency and high bandwidth, SAN has provided a degree of reassurance for facilities looking to handle increasingly higher file sizes and data-rates.

However, for facilities investing into SAN to remain competitive, efficient and scalable, the infrastructure comes with prohibitively high manpower and infrastructure costs to manage and maintain.

This whitepaper explores the many moving parts within the modern production environment for creative agencies and how NAS technology, combined with DIT tools, will be the next step to scaling users and processes into operating on a facility-wide shared storage.