Maintain Quality of Service for real-time data Serve multiple SD, HD, 2K & 4K streams Share data instead of replicating

Scalable, High-Performance Storage Enabling Consolidated Data Sharing and Leading Streaming Capability.

Real-time collaborative workflow is critical to successful post production, broadcast, and cable operations. System downtime, unavailable data, or hindered processes affect a company's success. Supporting increasingly complex and distributed environments with HD, 2K and 4K formats, many organizations are challenged to enable real-time workflow, broadcast and ingest capability.

Storage Specifically Designed for Post-Production and Broadcast Environments

Post-Production
The S2A storage system is uniquely capable of managing common pools of storage that can be shared by multiple users simultaneously, each enjoying full speed high-performance access to the data. An S2A-based storage infrastructure greatly simplifies the workflow, providing a single instance of digital content that can be accessed by many users. This streamlined production pipeline can drastically reduce errors, shorten production time, and promote creativity. The S2A storage system offers the additional benefit of reduced complexity and administrative overhead.

The S2A is an open system, supporting any operating system, file system, or other platform likely to be found in post houses, enabling the use of the right equipment for the job and eliminationg the need for proprietary file systems or storage applications. In addition, the S2A's prallel host access delivers exceptional performance in shared file system environments. The ability of multiple hosts to access the same storage at the same time is critical to enabling real-time collaborative workflows that cut down overall project cycle times.

Broadcast and Cable
The S2A storage system is an ideal storage solution for broadcast and cable companies because it was architected specifically to handly extremely large files at very high throughput. New content can easily exceed multiple terabytes daily, and the S2A enables the digitization of that content using multiple ingest stations. At the same time the S2A can concurrently deliver multiple terabytes of data to remote editing stations or playout servers. This ability to seemlessly handle multiple simultaneous read and write requests from many individual workstations while maintaining extremely high throughput is unique to the S2A and enables organizations to effectively centralize their operations.

For video playout, where flawless streaming video is mandatory, the S2A delivers real-time performance and uncompromising reliability. The storage pool can lose multiple drives, drive channels, connecting cables or transceivers, or even entire disk enclosures without the S2A suffering loss of data, accessibility, or performance.

The S2A's exceptional performance, centralized data repository, and rock solid reliability saves systems administration time and allows organizations to invest capital into the business rather than replicating data across multiple slower, less reliable systems.

The S2A is the answer for your media production, distribution and archive requirements

DataDirect offers highly available, scalable, and high performance post production and digital intermediate storage solutions that incorporate DataDirect's S2A platform. The S2A9550 storage system, featuring up to 3 GB/s of sustained real-time throughput and up to 960TB of storage capacity, can easily scale to handle the NAS and SAN bandwidth and capacity intensive requirements of digital intermediate applications, empowering a true real-time collaborative workflow in digital post-production.

	S2A Shared SAN File System Solution High-Performance S2A9550 Appliances enable up to 3GB/s per system Scale performance from 1-100GB/s in a single volume – tens to dozens of streams Up to two concurrent 4K streams per S2A9550 Up to four concurrent 2K streams per S2A9550 Share data across Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac systems Shared SAN file system enables high-speed concurrent file access Enterprise configuration with no single point of failure Automatic Data Migration Enables Tiered-Storage Deploy Low Latency Fibre-Channel Storage for Priority Data Migrate data onto SATA storage over time to increase cost efficiency Automatic Data Migration Enables Tiered-Storage Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) intelligently manages data through your information’s lifecycle – utilizing Capacity Optimized SATA storage for long term data archiving.    Learn more >>