Avid Now Shipping NEXIS and Delivers the Industry’s First and Only Software-defined Storage Platform
May 20 2016 - 9:00AM
Avid® (Nasdaq:AVID) today announced that Avid NEXIS™, the
industry’s first and only software-defined storage platform
specifically designed for storing and managing media, is now
available. The award-winning platform enables fully virtualized
storage so media organizations can adjust storage capacity
mid-project, without disrupting workflows. Powered by the Avid
MediaCentral™ Platform, Avid NEXIS delivers unrivaled media storage
flexibility, scalability, and control for both Avid-based and
third-party workflows. Designed to serve the smallest production
teams as powerfully as the largest media enterprises, it’s the only
storage platform built with the flexibility to grow with customers
at every stage of their business – fulfilling a key tenet of Avid
Everywhere™.
“We are really excited to announce that Avid NEXIS is shipping.
Now, media professionals and creative teams can share and access
media assets from everywhere, while having the flexibility to
adjust capacity as projects dictate, without disrupting their
work,” said Dana Ruzicka, vice president and chief product officer,
Avid. “Avid NEXIS delivers world-class performance, reliability and
scalability, regardless of the tools that artists use.”
As a fully open storage platform, Avid NEXIS gives video
professionals the performance, flexibility and efficiency of the
industry’s most powerful storage solution, regardless of the
editing application they choose to use. In addition to Avid Media
Composer®, and Avid Pro Tools®, Avid NEXIS works with media
creation applications from other leading vendors, including Apple
Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Grass Valley EDIUS, and many
others.
The flexibility of Avid NEXIS has attracted significant customer
interest since it was announced at the 2016 NAB Show. “We are
thrilled about the versatility of the new Avid NEXIS storage
platform,” said Jon Mauldin, vice president Technology at FotoKem
NLS. “Avid has done a great job of adding in the flexibility needed
for the many different types of productions that access a single
storage system. We are very excited to offer this new technology to
our clients.”
The software-defined storage architecture of Avid NEXIS allows
customers to select components that meet their current needs, and
easily expand storage capacity and bandwidth as their business
grows. Avid NEXIS is also the only scale-out storage solution that
enables customers to dynamically tune the system to ensure that
high-priority workflows always have the capacity, performance and
data protection levels they require. Customers can give critical
projects maximum performance, while throttling back on less
critical workflows. This ability lets teams react quickly to
changes, adjusting performance and protection levels to match the
needs of a project at any stage in the workflow.
The unique modularity of Avid NEXIS enables teams to mix and
match storage engines and elastically scale capacity from as little
as 20 TB to over 1.4 PB in a single system, without any
interruption in service or down time. All Avid NEXIS systems are
powered by the Avid NEXIS | FS file system, so customers experience
consistent performance, reliability, and protection, regardless of
configuration size.
The Avid NEXIS family includes several new storage engine
options, designed to meet any scalability and density
requirement:
- Avid NEXIS | E4—High-density integrated
storage engine
- Avid NEXIS | E2—Small-footprint integrated
storage engine
- System Director Appliance—Increases Avid NEXIS
scale and redundancy
- Media Pack—Pack of 10 drives with 20 TB or 60
TB of storage
- Redundant Controller—High-availability option
for Avid NEXIS systems
- Avid NEXIS | PRO—Professional-class integrated
storage engine
As the newest Avid shared storage solution, Avid NEXIS provides
an easy transition path for existing users of Avid ISIS and Avid
Unity shared storage solutions.
About AvidThrough Avid Everywhere™, Avid
delivers the industry's most open, innovative and comprehensive
media platform connecting content creation with collaboration,
asset protection, distribution and consumption. Media
organizations and creative professionals use Avid solutions to
create the most listened to, most watched and most loved media
in the world—from the most prestigious and award-winning feature
films, to the most popular television shows, news programs and
televised sporting events, as well as a majority of today’s most
celebrated music recordings and live concerts. Industry leading
solutions include Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, ISIS®, Avid NEXIS™,
Interplay®, ProSet and RealSet, Maestro, PlayMaker, and Sibelius®.
For more information about Avid solutions and services,
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© 2016 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Avid, the Avid
logo, Avid Everywhere, iNEWS, Interplay, ISIS, AirSpeed,
MediaCentral, Media Composer, Avid NEXIS, Pro Tools, and Sibelius
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. or
its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. The
Interplay name is used with the permission of the Interplay
Entertainment Corp. which bears no responsibility for Avid
products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners. Product features, specifications, system requirements and
availability are subject to change without notice.
PR Contact:
Avid
Amy Paladino
amy.paladino@avid.com
617-733-5121
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