Based on company's acclaimed Xcellis Storage with QXS hybrid flash-disk tiering, architecture simplifies collaboration and speeds rendering process
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Tuesday 26 July 2016 - Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) today announced a new animation and visual effects (VFX) workflow reference architecture built on the company's award-winning Xcellis high-performance shared storage. This robust and exceptionally flexible architecture delivers optimal storage capabilities for animation and editorial operations, thereby streamlining workflows and boosting overall efficiency and productivity. Quantum will demonstrate the new architecture at the SIGGRAPH 2016 Conference and Exhibition, July 24-28, in Anaheim, California (booth 575).
Resolving collaboration challenges in animation/VFX and editorial workflows
The time- and resource-consuming task of transferring content between the animation and editorial departments over a network is a key obstacle for post facilities seeking to maximise workflow efficiencies. In some cases, entire facilities must essentially shut down for hours each day as they copy material over the network and dedicate storage systems on both sides of this divide to writing and reading data. Quantum's new reference architecture enables users to overcome these challenges, maintaining storage for both animation/VFX and editorial within a single shared environment that supplies the type and degree of connectivity required across the end-to-end workflow.
Enabling greater flexibility and efficiency with a single storage platform
Boasting a unique architecture that integrates key workflow storage components into an easy-to-manage, highly scalable hardware solution, Xcellis supports both Fibre Channel and Ethernet clients, hosts workflow applications and manages data across multiple storage tiers. Powered by Quantum's industry-leading StorNext platform, Xcellis also allows users to optimise any of up to 64 separate file systems to meet the performance requirements of different departments. These characteristics provide a host of benefits to post facilities that share media across animation and editorial departments, including:
Storage of all media files on a single system with a single namespace, eliminating the cost of managing and maintaining multiple storage silos.
Ethernet-based NAS and DLC access, providing the speed and availability animators need, while direct Fibre Channel connections supply the editorial department with highly predicable performance for demanding high-resolution content.
Render farms that can connect to storage for direct access to content during rendering, eliminating the need for bulk data dumps and network shutdowns.
Fast, easy and cost-effective system scaling through the simple addition of more storage, making it easy to accommodate growth and new technologies.
Accelerating operations with QXS hybrid flash-disk storage
The new Xcellis-based architecture incorporates QXS hybrid disk-flash storage with Q-Tier technology, providing animators with the random I/O performance they need for a fraction of the cost of an all-flash solution. To optimise system performance, QXS Q-Tier technology scores, scans and sorts data every five seconds and moves it between flash and spinning disk tiers as access patterns change.
Integrating seamlessly into media environments
Because Quantum's StorNext-powered workflow storage solutions are already certified with leading applications including the Autodesk suite, Adobe suite and animation management tools such as Shotgun, facilities can seamlessly integrate the new reference architecture into existing environments. As a result, users on the animation and editorial sides of the business can continue working with their preferred software tools while realising a notable increase in performance and much improved ability to work collaboratively.
Quantum's new animation and visual effects workflow reference architecture leverages our StorNext-powered Xcellis high-performance storage and QXS hybrid flash-disk storage with real-time tiering to enable much greater efficiency at post facilities with both animation and editorial departments. It not only eliminates the need for separate storage silos but also eases collaboration across these departments and optimises storage and media access according to the needs of each. With the resulting gains in capacity and productivity, media facilities can take on larger and more demanding projects, and more projects overall. - Dave Frederick, senior director of media and entertainment, Quantum
Additional resources
To learn more about Quantum's solutions for animation workflows: www.stornext.com/solutions/animation
For more details about Xcellis: www.quantum.com/products/scale-out-storage/stornext-primary-storage/index.aspx
Read about QXS hybrid storage: www.quantum.com/products/hybrid-storage/index.aspx
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out storage, archive and data protection. The company's StorNext 5 platform powers modern high-performance workflows, enabling seamless, real-time collaboration and keeping content readily accessible for future use and re-monetisation. More than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to address their most demanding content workflow needs, including top studios, major broadcasters and cutting-edge content creators. With Quantum, customers have the end-to-end storage platform they need to manage assets from ingest through finishing and into delivery and long-term preservation. See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories-mediaent.
Quantum, the Quantum logo, StorNext, Xcellis and QXS Q-Tier are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Quantum Corporation and its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Based on company's acclaimed Xcellis Storage with QXS hybrid flash-disk tiering, architecture simplifies collaboration and speeds rendering process
