Infrastructure
In the world of IT-based production, users require a comprehensive and automated method of managing content. This includes the movement of assets from ingest to archive, with data integrity ensured at each step in the chain. Apple works with industry-leading manufacturers to provide infrastructure solutions that allow your organisation to focus on what you do best — create.
Masstech
Masstech develops end-to-end, advanced near-line, archive, and asset management solutions for professional broadcast environments. MassStore easily integrates into a Mac OS X environment and can manage the lifecycle of content on Xsan volumes. In a dynamic production environment, lifecycle management can mean the difference between making air and making art.
Object Matrix
MatrixStore turns low-cost disk into a safe place to store your digital assets. It puts all your archived assets onto your network, available to search and use instantly. MatrixStore has been designed for professional video and film production and is ideal for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Server workflows. Operating on an Xserve cluster, MatrixStore is a great complement to Xsan, offering long-term protection for your valuable assets.
Promise Technologies
The Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem is an ideal storage solution for direct-attached or SAN-based server and workstation applications and is qualified with Final Cut Studio 2, Xsan 2, Mac OS X Server, and Mac OS X. The VTrak E-Class delivers outstanding performance, reliability, and expansion for video, audio, and server applications. Its high-availability design is optimised for the most demanding video environments.
Quantum
Quantum’s StorNext FX is the ideal software solution for Xsan customers who want to increase productivity and finish projects faster in multi-operating-system environments. For time-sensitive environments like broadcast and post-production, StorNext FX and Xsan work together to enable storage consolidation and rapid file sharing across ingest, editing, and distribution systems. Quantum is also an industry leader in flexible and stackable workgroup tape and disk libraries, securing data and protecting critical video and audio data in all production environments.
Vicom Systems
Vicom Systems specialises in the delivery of transparent wire-speed data services for systems and storage. Vmirror is a hardware appliance that provides full redundancy and mirroring of Xsan installations. Vmirror offers Xsan installations a no-downtime production environment that allows users to focus on the creation and delivery of time-critical media.
Xsan 2
Whether you’re working in video and film, editing audio, or creating effects and motion graphics, take full advantage of high-performance network storage with Xsan 2. Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system that provides concurrent data access over high-speed Fibre Channel to multiple systems on the network. With Xsan, every Final Cut Studio 2 editor has concurrent access to source media files and never needs to transfer this data between stations.
