Avid NEXIS | E5 NL Nearline Storage Solution

Avid Technology, Inc. announced the availability of NEXIS | E5 NL nearline storage solution.

The addition of this high-density on-premises solution to the NEXIS family-software-defined storage platform for media-allows company’s customers to manage media across all their online, nearline, and archive storage resources.

NEXIS | E5 NL is integrated into the firm’s media applications, services and workflows, and includes a web-based NEXIS management console for managing, controlling and monitoring NEXIS installations. It can be accessed through MediaCentral | Cloud UX or Media Composer and also integrates with MediaCentral | Production Management, MediaCentral | Asset Management, and MediaCentral | Editorial Management to drive collaboration, including features such as project and bin sharing. Extending the NEXIS | FS (file system) to a secondary storage tier makes it to search for, find and import media, enabling users to locate content distributed throughout their operations more quickly and efficiently.

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For project parking, staging workflows and proxy archive, NEXIS | E5 NL streamlines the workflow between active and non-active assets, allowing media organizations to park assets as well as completed projects on high-density nearline storage, and keep them within reach for rediscovery and reuse. Up to eight NEXIS | E5 NL engines can be integrated as one virtualizable pool of storage, making content and associated projects and bins more accessible. In addition, other NEXIS Enterprise engines can be integrated into a single storage system that is partitioned for archival organization.

NEXIS | E5 NL features include:

• Scalability from 480TB of storage to more than 7PB by connecting multiple NEXIS | E5 NL engines together as a single nearline system for a scalable, lower-cost secondary tier of storage.

• Flexible storage infrastructure that can be provisioned with required capacity and fault-tolerance characteristics.

• Configure, control and monitor NEXIS using the updated management console that looks and feels like a MediaCentral | Cloud UX application. Its dashboard provides an overview of the system’s performance, bandwidth, and status, as well as access to quickly configure and manage workspaces, storage groups, user access, notifications, and other functions. The flexibility and security of HTML5 along with a responsive interface design enables mobile device support, allowing users to monitor and configure their system while on the go.

“The addition of Avid NEXIS | E5 NL enables us to offer customers a comprehensive range of media-optimized storage solutions, from nearline to very high-performance all-flash SSD storage-all under one storage architecture and one file system,” said Dana Ruzicka, chief product officer, Avid. “With the hallmark scalability, redundancy, and reliability of Avid NEXIS, this new addition will help media organizations manage multiple storage systems with optimal reliability, saving them time and money.”

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