EVS, Harmonic Deliver New XStore Nearline Storage System
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EVS has partnered with Harmonic to deliver the new XStore high-performance nearline storage solution. Designed to be as flexible as possible, XStore is optimized for use in studios, broadcast centers, and host broadcasting facilities.
Leveraging Harmonic’s MediaGrid shared storage system, EVS has unified its three XStore products into a single, flexible storage platform. Following the formation of an OEM partnership with Harmonic at the 2017 NAB Show, EVS is releasing the new XStore system which unifies EVS’ current XStore range of three products into a single flexible storage solution.
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“With this new generation of XStore, we’re simplifying our storage offering – we want to more easily deliver customers highly reliable media storage for live and near-live production environments,” says Sebastien Maindiaux, product manager at EVS. “It’s designed on a ‘grow as you go’ upgrade basis so it can guarantee flexibility and limit the risk of users not having enough storage capacity to deliver their programming.”
The nearline platform benefits from a technical architecture and comes in various form factors, starting at six RU with available metadata servers and 28TB (or 500 hours of HD content) of capacity. When higher capacities are needed, XStore can scale up to petabytes using four or five RU chassis of up to 500TB. The platform’s high-density form factor maximizes capacity and minimizes rack space, providing valuable space-saving benefits.
The new XStore platform is designed as a unified storage infrastructure that delivers the performance and reliability that’s expected in any EVS-based production ecosystem.
“This new storage offering will become a key part of any live or near-live infrastructure, allowing creative production teams to do more by giving them immediate access to media through XStore,” says Benoit Quirynen, svp product and market at EVS. “Our development experts chose Harmonic’s MediaGrid technology because not only is it able to cope with the intensity of live and near live productions but also enables simple management of the storage capacity for users.”
