Sans Digital Video Asset Management Tower and Rackmount Appliances

Sans Digital, Inc. is introducing a line of tower and rackmount appliances for media asset management and archiving.

The Video Asset Management VAM product line handles professional and organizations that are struggling with storage of their video, audio, and still images. This affordable, professional grade, network storage archive systems are engineered with media professionals in mind. Built on the Sans Digital NAS hardware and the digital content management software VAM, the VAM series VA003-6E tower and VA308-8E rackmount appliance give the users a complete digital media archiving solution.

The VAM product line was designed around the need for accelerated archive and retrieval workflows of digital media users. The capability to search, preview, and re-purpose all forms of digital media, brings quick access to needed content even through enormous amounts of data. This is achieved by using the built-in content management software which helps to create a low-resolution proxy for users and allows them to quickly and easily preview and search entire catalogs of video, audio, and still images.

Cross-platform ability allows VAM tower and rackmounts to support both Mac and PC environments as well as cross-application support for Avid, Final Cut Pro, Premier, and other video editing suites, allows for over-arching management of all video assets. VAM plug-and-play appliance is a complete solution supporting all forms of digital media with expanded video management functionality. The combination of Sans Digital brand of storage hardware and the intuitive Video Content Management software, delivers a complete video content management system in an all-in-one appliance.

As data increases over time, VAM are able to scale up and can be combined additional VAM unit within a network to provide pay-as-you-grow system for use in any sized organization.

Sans Digital VAM come with two ready to deploy model: VA003-6E and VA308-8E.

Both models are pre-built with 4TB and 7TB storage capacity respectively. Both models include LTO-5 tape drives (with LTO-6 drives upgrade available) for offline media.

Many video files contain extractable context as well as content file-specific metadata that can be used to identify a particular file or group of files. The video and entertainment industry has evolved its own set of additional context metadata, such as shoot date, edit date, closed caption information, frame rate, lab references, edit decision lists (EDLs), clapper board information, shot markings, subtitling and VAM series incorporates that metadata (and a whole lot more) into the post-production process allowing for the rapid and relevant search and retrieval of needed assets. Once in the VAM’s database, metadata information follows actual video file assets as they move to different storage locations. At the same time, user-configurable policies then migrate and replicate the video assets to less-costly build-in LTO-5 tape or different VAM, allowing unlimited yet manageable storage solution for storage need of creative professionals.

"To help support users with their ever expanding growth in video data, the new Sans Digital VAM tower and rackmounts solution delivers a complete data storage and archiving management in a single plug-and-play appliance," stated Stanley Chan, director of business development, Sans Digital. "Based on the industry proven Sans Digital hardware and new intuitive easy-to-use interface and total cost of ownership savings in hardware and software and these new appliances can deliver a quality video archive and management experience where it matters most."

VAM VA003-6E
This plug-and-play desktop cube appliance is a 4TB RAID-5 with one integrated LTO-5 drive for a multi-tiered storage solution. Built on an Intel Core i5 processor with 16GB of memory, VA003-6E provides a building block for the production video asset management. SAS expansion available for tape library integration.

VAM VA308-8E
This 3U rackmount solution with 7TB RAID-5 and one integrated LTO-5 drive (optional second LTO-5 drive available) provides a multi-tiered digital media storage solution. Built on an Xeon processor, this appliance delivers performance as a content management storage device. SAS expansion are available for tape library integration.

Sans Digital VAM appliances are available and backed by one-year limited warranty (towers) and three-year limited hardware warranty (rackmounts).