Galileo Digital Launches 1PB xStor Storage System Including axle ai Software

Galileo Digital has announced availability of a 1PB storage solution priced at $99,995 and integrated with software from axle ai, Inc.

xStor storage system

The system represents a change in an industry where petabyte-scale solutions have typically cost many hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars. A petabyte is needed as video production skyrockets and resolutions move higher.

Designed for performance and reliability at an aggressive price point, xStor systems are a HDD-based storage systems to be tested and optimized for use with Lasergraphics film scanners. It is no simple task to meet the massive storage demands of high resolution, fast scanners: capacity, high data write speeds, scalability, and a low TCO.

The configuration includes a 1U application server running a 5-user version of axle ai 2019, the company’s simple video search software. The software features a browser front end that enables multiple users to tag, catalog and search their media files, and a range of AI-driven options to automatically catalog and discover specific visual and audio attributes within those files. Given the large amounts of video, often multiple terabytes, that are accumulated in a day of scanning or by a video team in a single shoot, this system saves time and effort by allowing rapid search and management of those media files.

Steve Klenk, CEO, Galileo Digital, said: “We’ve seen increasing demand for xStor family of network storage arrays, which combine filesystem and object protocols along with massive storage density and high throughput. Integrating axle ai’s radically simple video search with a petabyte of enterprise storage – at this price point – is truly a breakthrough product.“

The xStor Smart Petabyte is available from the company and its global resellers, at a price of $99,995.

This includes 1PB of enterprise disk-based storage, 10 and 1 Gb/s network interfaces, and both filesystem and object storage protocol access, as well as the axle ai 2019 video search application. Optional software modules – including AI-driven speech transcription, face recognition and object recognition – are available with prices starting at under $2 per hour of footage analyzed.

About Galileo Digital
The California-based company is a distributor for xStor storage solutions and Lasergraphics motion picture film scanners. It’s provider of end-to-end, film-to-digital workflow, archive and media asset management solutions. It was founded in 2007 by Steve Klenk, previously with PricewaterhouseCoopers and a former VP for business development at Lasergraphics. His vision was to engage a handful of the systems integrators, leverage their human and technological resources, and provide cost-effective ‘end-to-end’ film digitization, post-production, storage, and asset management systems planning and integration services to motion picture, broadcast, archive and education clients