Storage

 

All companies in the media industry strive to use the latest technologies to reduce production times, optimise resources, and ultimately reduce costs. SGO’s Open Storage is one of these advanced technologies that allow companies to take full advantage of a truly open centralised storage infrastructure, providing facility-wide interactive collaboration.

 

SGO’s Open Storage has been developed and designed to provide the best Storage Area Network (SAN) technology available, using standard hardware, optimised to provide the best possible solution, not just for use with SGO’s Mistika range of creative systems, but for use with any 3rd party system where open SAN storage is critical. Integrating data pre-allocation, to minimize fragmentation, and quality of service (QoS) to guarantee bandwidth, all critical media play out or capture tasks can be guaranteed.

 

Based on the StoreNext File system, SGO’s Open Storage will work on all commercial platforms to create a completely heterogeneous environment where different people can share data and ideas. It is fully compatible with Linux, Windows, and Apple XSAN.

 

All machines are connected directly to the SGO Open Storage via high speed fibre channel infrastructure so data can be accessed instantly without having to wait for any time consuming network transfers. Centralized storage architecture minimizes duplicate data, and is covered by Raid5 & Raid6 protection, plus additional fail-over mechanisms to provide the necessary peace of mind.

 

SGO Open Storage provides scalable data bandwidths that can easily handle multiple simultaneous uncompressed streams from SD to HD, 2K to 5K, and beyond, from cost effective SAN solutions up to “No Single Point of Failure” total configurations.

 

A unique ‘Snapshot’ capability permit a user to go back in time, to be protected against operational mistakes. With this option, if a user deletes the wrong files, it is possible to go back in time to a previous point where the files still existed, recover the files, and go back to the current file system status.

 

Remote maintenance services provide a cost effective solution to provide instant access to high level engineers through internet virtual connections, based on highly secure encrypted communications. All the SAN configurations that have been installed world-wide during the last ten years continue working today with full performance.

 

Based on a completely open file system, with no proprietary hardware, allows clients to expand on top of their existing infrastructure and enables the use of best possible hardware for specific needs and situations, while reducing cost to industry commodity levels.