Avid Nexis 2020 Collaborative Storage Solutions for Media Workflows

Media organizations, broadcasters, TV and film post-production facilities and other content creators will achieve reliability, openness and cost-efficiency in their workflows with Avid Technology, Inc.‘s collaborative storage release, Nexis 2020, a purpose-built solution for production teams of all sizes that need to keep working from anywhere to stay ahead of surging demand for new content.

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Workflow gains coming from Nexis 2020 include up to 40% more shared storage in the same footprint; optimized content mirroring to eliminate downtime and data loss; storage tiering that combines on-premises and cloud resources; and broader support for third-party tools.

“Avid NEXIS 2020 introduces deployment flexibility and openness that enables media creators to work from anywhere to produce high-quality content during these uncertain times with total confidence their business is backed by the most reliable, open and cost-effective media storage available today,” said Dana Ruzicka, chief product officer. “Avid NEXIS 2020 is a leap forward in helping to solve today’s rapidly evolving workflow requirements. With easily scalable resources on-premises, in the cloud or both, businesses can better deal with today’s demanding content creation needs including larger, more sophisticated projects-while always ensuring teams have seamless access to all the storage they need wherever they may need it.“

Nexis 2020 features include ‘All-Mirror’ HA engines to protect workflows vs. the widest range of conditions for failure, including network disruptions, disk loss or the loss of an entire engine. For time-sensitive broadcast news, enterprise post-production and live events, All-Mirror engines provide the highest level of redundancy at the lowest price point, ensuring teams will avoid workflow disruption and meet their deadlines.

Nexis 2020 also debuts with larger capacity drives that enable workflows to scale more substantially and cost-effectively. 140TB and 160TB media packs provide higher density storage at a lower cost, raising the total storage capacity up to 40% per engine, while decreasing the dollars per terabyte to store, manage, and edit content. In addition to providing software-defined media storage, these systems offers flexibility through storage tiering, which can secure media across a single pool of mixed resources, both on-premises and in the cloud, that can include flash, online, nearline and archive.

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Since the introduction of Nexis 4 years ago, the company’s focus on purpose-built storage for media has made it the real-time collaborative open solution for thousands of post houses, broadcasters, studios and media creators. Tens of thousands of editors, producers, assistants, journalists and other end users source, build, share and store their stories across countless on-premises, cloud and hybrid workflows incorporating Nexis with a growing range of third-party creative tools and asset management tools including those from Adobe, Apple, Blackmagic Design and FilmLight. Within the release of Nexis 2020, the company introduces support for Autodesk-certified finishing and visual effects workflows.

“Avid NEXIS is such a huge part of our success because its efficiencies, speed and flexibility-everything that this high-powered shared storage can give me-continue to be a competitive advantage for us,” Mark Satuloff, founder, Scratch Media, an Emmy Award-winning full-service video producer.

Nexis 2020 is available from the company and its global reseller community.

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April 29, 2019 | Press Release