OpenDrives Rolls Out Customizable Enterprise NAS Solution for Scaled Up Performance

OpenDrives has developed a new storage solution designed specifically to enable users to scale up in multiple dimensions while preserving ultra-high performance, super-low latency, and intelligent data integrity. Called the Ultra Hardware Platform, the solution includes three different NAS hardware solutions to meet changing business requirements and is controlled by OpenDrives’ centralized management software, Atlas, with powerful new features.

“In storage, the most common scalability technique is scaling up for more capacity or memory, but when the existing solution is maxed-out, customers face a dilemma: Simply making do with the overworked solution or ripping it out and replacing it with a completely new solution, both of which are time intensive and extremely costly,” said Sean Lee, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at OpenDrives. “With Ultra’s architecture, customers can choose which dimension or dimensions they want to scale, without starting over.”

Three Different Models Enable Multi-Dimension Scalability
OpenDrives’ new Ultra Hardware Platform includes three different NAS hardware series, all managed by the new Atlas centralized management software platform, enabling organizations to grow their storage solution in multiple dimensions — performance, capacity, and concurrency — to match business requirements:

• The Ultimate Series delivers the highest level of performance and throughput in the Ultra Hardware Platform. Designed with speed and low latency in mind, the Ultimate incorporates an all-flash NVMe design in the form of the F and FD capacity modules to handle the most demanding workflows.
• For organizations that require a balance between performance and flexibility, the Optimum Series was designed to provide freedom of choice and is configurable with either all-flash NVMe or SAS HDD (H, HD) capacity modules, or both. The workhorse of the Ultra Hardware Platform, the Optimum can handle resource-intensive workflows while also managing data integrity with ease.
• The Momentum Series leverages OpenDrives’ HDD capacity models to deliver high performance at a cost-effective price. Designed to excel at write-intensive workflows, such as camera-heavy security surveillance, the Momentum provides power at a price-point to meet any budget.

Powerful Central Management Platform Delivers Complete Operational Transparency
OpenDrives’ software platform, Atlas, combines all-new intelligence technology with automation in an easy-to-use, single-pane-of-glass centralized management solution for the OpenDrives Ultra hardware family. With the ability to manage all OpenDrives systems from a single interface, companies can manage their entire storage infrastructure no matter how geographically distributed it may be. Plus, Atlas seamlessly incorporates intelligent data integrity to ensure against corrupt data or data loss. New features include: inline and proactive caching, bandwidth throttling, and actionable analytics to support business intelligence.

New Platform Supports Position as Industry’s Most-Trusted NAS Solution
Founded in 2011 by a veteran Hollywood team of technical media engineers, post-production professionals, and studio heads, OpenDrives has maintained its commitment to solve the industry’s most critical pain points, including speed, latency, and scalability. Over the past decade, the company has grown to encompass a team of post-production professionals fluent in performance and committed to creating seamless workflows with storage that supports the highest fidelity media across a range of industries, including Hollywood production studios, streaming, live broadcast, esports, advertising, animation, security, military, healthcare, and diagnostics.

“OpenDrives is the strongest link in the HBO Verification Lab’s stack. We have many flavors of machines and operating systems and the storage works seamlessly across the board,” said Bennett Cain, Director of HBO Verification Lab. “Through their tireless support and collaborative spirit, they’ve been a top-notch partner in our facility’s growth.”

Most recently, OpenDrives adapted its NAS solution product to fit the transition to a remote workforce and for an industry that relies heavily on on-premise, on-lot production. In March 2020, the company launched OpenDrives Anywhere, an in-place private cloud model that enables users to work on the same project from multiple locations, without any compromises in performance, quality and security of files.