Storage Solutions for Media and Entertainment
Infortrend storage empowers you to bring your creative vision to life with ease and efficiency. Our cutting-edge storage solutions, including EonStor GS scale-out unified storage, EonStor CS scale-out NAS, and EonStor DS SAN storage, deliver exceptional performance, density, and scalability, coupled with complete data protection techniques. Plus, our storage solutions offer the perfect balance of capabilities and cost-effectiveness, ensuring you maximize your budget without sacrificing performance or quality.
Our storage solutions are specifically designed to meet the challenges of the industry's post-production workflows, which include:
- Insufficient performance that cannot support collaborative 4K/8K workloads.
- Limited rack space to store growing amounts of content.
- Uncertainty in forecasting future storage needs, leading to additional costs and effort.
- Storage downtime resulting in project delays or even revenue loss.
86 Streams of 4K Playback
With the support of lightning-fast NVMe SSD and 100GbE connectivity, our storage solutions offer extremely high performance to support demanding workloads, such as 4K/8K VFX, coloring, editing, and more. This ensures that you can deliver compelling stories on time without any performance bottlenecks.
The U.2 NVMe all-flash storage can perfectly meet the workloads of 4K/8K VFX processing, and the HDD storage is well-suited for HD/4K video editing, rendering, content delivery, and media asset management (MAM).
All storage solutions support industry-leading post-production software, such as Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, and NUKE, allowing you to seamlessly integrate with your workflow.
Store More, Manage Less
Effortlessly store your rapidly growing digital assets within limited rack space using our high-density storage appliances.
With our EonStor GS models featuring 4U 40/60/90-bay designs, you can store more materials using fewer appliances. This means you can reduce the number of appliances you need to manage, the number of switch ports required, total power consumption, and most importantly, less rack space - all leading to a lower total cost of ownership.
Scale Flexibly with Your Business
Our storage solutions offer both scale-out and scale-up capabilities, allowing you to expand both performance and capacity as your media assets or performance requirements grow. This eliminates the need for forecasting future needs or managing data silos at an additional cost and effort.
Make Your Content Safe and Available
Rest assured that your digital assets are protected against data loss with RAID protection on drives. Our storage solutions also feature redundant controller design, eliminating a single controller failure to ensure smooth and uninterrupted workflows.
EonStor GS Scale-out Unified Storage
Designed for Mid-size Studios: Meet the most powerful storage solutions for the most demanding post-production workloads, even for 4K/8K VFX and coloring tasks. Our EonStor GS features 100GbE, PCIe 4.0, and U.2 NVMe SSDs, which deliver uncompromising performance to ensure smooth and efficient workflows. Utilizing 4U 40/60/90-bay high density models, studios can effortlessly store assets within limited rack space.
Use EonStor GS to Build an Extremely High-Performance and Cost-Effective NAS Solution to Support Workloads from Content Acquisition to Content Delivery and Archive: With a wide range of EonStor GS models, including U.2 NVMe all-flash and SAS HDD, you can easily create a competitive offering. These models are fully compatible with CIFS/SMB, NFS, and AFP network architectures, as well as with network interfaces such as 10/25/100GbE that are commonly used in the media and entertainment industry.
EonStor CS Scale-out NAS
Designed for Large Studios: Revolutionize the way your large-sized studio operates with our EonStor CS scale-out NAS. Our EonStor CS provides the power and scalability necessary to support even the demanding 4K creative projects. With the ability to add up to 144 nodes, EonStor CS can handle a large volume of media assets and flexibly expand with your business needs.
Build the Perfect NAS Cluster for High-Performance Content Acquisition, Editing, Visual Effects, Content Delivery, and Large-Capacity Archive: Learn how to leverage the benefits SSDs and HDDs using different EonStor CS models, which are perfectly compatible with M&E network architectures such as CIFS/SMB, NFS, and FTP. Additionally, these models offer high bandwidth 10GbE/25GbE host interfaces, which can be used for both Internal Network (to exchange data between storage nodes) and Front-End Network (to access media files from workstations).
EonStor DS SAN Storage
Designed to Offer Industry-leading SAN Performance: Maximize block-level performance and seamlessly integrate with M&E file systems, such as Apple Xsan and StorNext, to boost productivity.
Use EonStor DS That Fully Supports Apple Xsan and StorNext: EonStor DS is a pure SAN storage solution, ideal for M&E studios adopting a clustered file system, which allows multiple clients to share block storage via a high-speed Fibre Channel or iSCSI network.
Video Editing
- Scenario: An M&E studio is seeking a storage solution that can accommodate 10 to 15 workstations using DaVinci Resolve for 4K video editing simultaneously. The solution must provide a large capacity to store video footage and high performance to ensure smooth playback and editing.
- Why Infortrend: Infortrend provides cost-effective high-density storage for large video footage, with a built-in U.2 NVMe SSD cache that boosts video editing workflow efficiency, enhancing project turnaround time and productivity.
- Recommended Products: EonStor GS 3000/4000 G3 high-density models
VFX
- Scenario: A rendering service provider is searching for a storage solution for their render farm, which consists of 100 render nodes running on Windows 10 Professional operating system and SMB Direct 3.1.1. The films are rendered in 4K resolution with a 10-bit YUV video format. The storage solution should provide a throughput of 2.5GB/s for reading and 2GB/s for writing.
- Why Infortrend: Infortrend provides high performance storage solutions that meet the total read/write throughput requirements, flexible scalability to accommodate future capacity demands, and SMB Multi-channel, which increases network performance. The redundant controller design ensures data availability, providing an added layer of protection against data loss.
- Recommended Products: EonStor GS 3000/4000 G3 high-density models
Rendering
- Scenario: A rendering service provider is searching for a storage solution for their render farm, which consists of 100 render nodes running on Windows 10 Professional operating system and SMB Direct 3.1.1. The films are rendered in 4K resolution with a 10-bit YUV video format. The storage solution should provide a throughput of 2.5GB/s for reading and 2GB/s for writing.
- Why Infortrend: Infortrend provides high performance storage solutions that meet the total read/write throughput requirements, flexible scalability to accommodate future capacity demands, and SMB Multi-channel, which increases network performance. The redundant controller design ensures data availability, providing an added layer of protection against data loss.
- Recommended Products: EonStor GS 3000/4000 G3 high-density models
Ingestion and Content Delivery
- Scenario: A content creation company is seeking storage solutions that require high throughput for video ingestion from film scanners and high capacity for cold material archiving, with specific network requirements of 100GbE and 25GbE for each solution. Additionally, ingested data migration is scheduled every night.
- Why Infortrend: Infortrend's storage solutions meet content creation companies' demanding needs with high-performance, large capacity, and specialized network requirements. The U.2 2U 24-bay with SSDs and 100GbE and GS 3U 60-bay with HDDs and 25GbE offer high-density designs for greater capacity efficiency and reduced TCO. Additionally, scale-out provides a single namespace to simply management and reduce complexity, while data migration capabilities ensure data integrity and availability.
- Recommended Products: EonStor GS U.2 high-performance storage series & EonStor GS 3000/4000 G3 high-density models
Broadcasting
- Scenario: A TV company is looking for two NAS sets with 10G and 25G channels respectively for over-the-top (OTT) media services. Both must deliver read/write throughput of 3 GB/s and 1 GB/s, and 760 TB capacity to store video contents. The NAS will also be used to store video-on-demand (VOD) content to provide a better content experience for their OTT service.
- Why Infortrend: Infortrend's EonStor GS is an enterprise unified storage solution that offers a range of benefits. It integrates SAN, NAS, and cloud services, and comes with scale-out capability, providing flexible expansion of both performance and capacity. Its high-density design meets large capacity demands, while high throughput allows for fast data transfer. The use of SSD cache speeds up video playback.
- Recommended Products: EonStor GS 3000/4000 G3 high-density models
Ciner Media Group
“Thanks to Infortrend’s robust and reliable EonStor GS unified storage system, now we have high performance and capacity in a smaller rack space,” said Cem GÜMRÜKÇÜ, Broadcasting Systems Manager, Ciner Media Group.
Erler Film
“The ever-growing data has become a challenge for today's media industry. We wanted a supplier that we can depend on in terms of technical capability and quality. Therefore, we choose Infortrend,” said Mr Suleyman Erdogan, Vice Technical President of Erler Film
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