NAB: Avid NEXIS|Cloudspaces Instant Storage Expansion Securely in Cloud With Azure

Avid Technology, Inc. announced NEXIS|Cloudspaces, which brings the power of the cloud to NEXIS storage systems.

NEXIS|Cloudspaces takes the stress out of media management and storage availability, and gives users instant access to more storage when needed.

Unveiled at Connect 2019, it will debut at the NAB Show in firm’s booth, April 8-11.

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“Avid NEXIS|Cloudspaces brings the power of the cloud to Avid NEXIS, giving organizations a cost-effective and more efficient way to extend Avid NEXIS storage to the cloud for reliable backup and media parking,” said Dana Ruzicka, chief product officer and SVP, Avid. “Working with Microsoft we are offering all Avid NEXIS users a limited-time free offer of two terabytes of Microsoft Azure storage that is auto-provisioned for easy setup and as much capacity as you need, when you need it.“

NEXIS|Cloudspaces features and benefits include:

• Leverage the power of NEXIS – Users can start storing media in the cloud today and benefit from NEXIS’s workspace management and user access controls with the flexibility and scale of the cloud.

• Safely backup or park media – Users can sync or park on-premise NEXIS workspaces to NEXIS|Cloudspaces with commonly used media management tools, while optimized media workflows provide organizations with better efficiency and security over risky manual processes.

• Free up NEXIS storage – Instead of resorting to NAS or external drives when budgets are tight, NEXIS|Cloudspaces makes it to offload projects and media not currently in production. And, because NEXIS manages cloudspaces alongside workspaces, users can spend less time searching for and wrangling media-giving them more time to create.

• Get simple setup – NEXIS|Cloudspaces offers activation and auto-provisioning from the NEXIS Management Console, with activation from an Avid Link account, leveraging NEXIS workspace user access controls for end-to-end security.

• Gain better workflow and cost efficiency – NEXIS|Cloudspaces eliminates the time wasted manually shuttling media to and wrangling media from USB drives, so users can keep production moving and park projects and media. With a variety of subscription plans available, users can match their storage expense to their business needs.

• Increase scalability, capacity, and reliability with Microsoft Azure – NEXIS|Cloudspaces extends NEXIS storage directly to Microsoft Azure. Now the company’s customers can benefit from Azure’s hyper-scale storage capacity, global distribution and industry leading storage and networking capabilities.

NEXIS|Cloudspaces will be available in April 2019.