Avid® (Nasdaq:AVID) today announced new innovations for Avid
NEXIS™, the industry’s first and only software-defined storage
platform specifically designed for storing and managing media, are
now available. Powered by the MediaCentral® Platform, the
industry’s most open, tightly integrated and efficient platform
designed for media, Avid NEXIS High Availability options and
dramatically enhanced scalability for Avid NEXIS | Enterprise
systems provide unrivaled reliability, performance and storage
capacity for the most demanding large-scale broadcast and
post-production environments.
As part of Avid’s commitment to offering the most comprehensive
tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and optimize
media, Avid NEXIS scalability enhancements now double the capacity
of Avid NEXIS | Enterprise systems. Avid NEXIS supports up to 48
Media Packs across a single scale-out enterprise-class system,
enabling customers to mix and match a combination of Avid NEXIS |
E5, E4, and E2 engines, whether for new installations or integrated
with their existing Avid ISIS® systems. With this new release,
customers can scale the Avid NEXIS system’s total capacity up to
nearly 3 PB of total storage with up to 19.2 GB/seconds of
bandwidth, capable of delivering 250 streams of Sony XAVC-Intra 59p
UHD or more than 680 streams of DNxHD-220 media.
The new scale out features build upon the previously announced
Avid NEXIS High Availability options—including the Avid NEXIS
Redundant Storage Controller, Redundant System Director, and
Redundant Networking—protect mission-critical productions against
potential hardware performance issues. Avid NEXIS Media Mirror
Protection protects an entire Avid NEXIS system against any five
simultaneous disk failures, and even an entire engine failure.
“Media organizations need more robust storage infrastructure,
greater reliability and control, and closer collaboration in order
to create high-quality and engaging content,” said Alan Hoff, vice
president, Market Solutions, Avid. “These new innovations for Avid
NEXIS deliver the most resilient storage system in the industry
with unmatched scalability, together with high-availability options
that address these needs and boost operational efficiency.”
Thanks to the openness of MediaCentral, Avid NEXIS solutions
work with all top media creation applications, including Media
Composer®, Pro Tools®, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro
CC, Grass Valley EDIUS, and many more. Production teams can quickly
access a shared pool of virtualized storage resources, which
dramatically increases their efficiency—a testament to the
media-savvy collaboration capabilities Avid NEXIS delivers.
“Our clients primarily use Avid editing solutions, but we need
the versatility to offer alternative workflows,” said Ollie
Stratton, technical consultant and head of Video Europe’s edit
department. “The fact [that] [Avid] NEXIS has the ability to
natively support Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Black
Magic’s DaVinci Resolve, is a real leap forward for flexible, open
workflows.”
Avid NEXIS enables dynamic virtualization so media organizations
can adjust storage capacity mid-project, without disrupting
workflows. Customers can select components that meet their current
needs, and easily grow as their needs change.
Avid NEXIS is the only scale-out storage solution with adaptive
protection, enabling 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.
As part of Avid’s commitment to offering flexible deployment
models, Avid offers a range of Avid NEXIS | Enterprise systems,
including the hyper-dense Avid NEXIS | E5 storage engine, the Avid
NEXIS | E4 high-density storage engine and the Avid NEXIS | E2
small-footprint storage engine.
Avid NEXIS enhanced scalability and the following Avid NEXIS
High Availability options are now available:
- Avid NEXIS Redundant Storage Controller
- Avid NEXIS Redundant System Director
- Avid NEXIS Redundant Networking
- Avid NEXIS Media Mirroring
About AvidThrough Avid Everywhere™, Avid
delivers the most open and efficient media platform, connecting
content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution
and consumption. Avid’s preeminent customer community uses
Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create,
distribute and monetize the most watched, loved and listened
to media in the world—from prestigious and award-winning feature
films, to popular television shows, news programs and
televised sporting events, and celebrated music recordings and live
concerts. With the most flexible deployment and pricing options,
Avid’s industry-leading solutions include Pro Tools®, Media
Composer®, Avid NEXIS™, Interplay®, ProSet and RealSet, Maestro,
PlayMaker, and Sibelius®. For more information about Avid solutions
and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid
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logo, Avid Everywhere, Avid NEXIS, iNEWS, Interplay, AirSpeed,
MediaCentral, Media Composer, PhaseFind, Pro Tools, ScriptSync 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. Product features, specifications, system
requirements and availability are subject to change without
notice.
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Avid
Amy Paladino
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617-733-5121
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