InfiniStorage Optimizes Video Production Workflow
In industries where content is king, production and broadcast facilities are turning to Silicon Graphics whose supercomputing, visualization and storage expertise has helped government and defense agencies, research universities, manufacturing and oil and gas companies worldwide manage massive amounts of data in real-time applications. As media companies create and convert more of their content into digital formats and transition their facilities to datacentric IT infrastructures to manage the growing amount of content data, many are purchasing SGI InfiniteStorage solutions.
Universal Studios, Tippett Studio, the Orphanage, and Reel FX Creative Studios are among the post-production and media companies purchasing SGI InfiniteStorage solutions.
SGI InfiniteStorage solutions enable broadcasters and video/film companies to optimize their facility-wide workflows by leveraging IT advances. Many without the need to move data may share enormous amounts of it. InfiniteStorage solutions optimize dataflow through the facility by providing true file sharing at production speeds with a choice of both network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) storage architectures.
The SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS allows facilities to choose the best-of-breed applications for the job without operating system constraints. With more than 400 customers since its introduction in 1999, CXFS provides industry-leading heterogeneous shared file access over a storage area network and now supports Linux and IBM AIX in addition to current support for IRIX, Solaris and Windows platforms, with support for Mac OS X in March. Broadcast material can be shared at 25x real-time rates and film resolution material can move through the facility as data at real- time rates.
In October, Silicon Graphics introduced SGI InfiniteStorage Serial ATA solutions, which provide economical secondary disk storage for high- performance computing applications. The new SATA storage systems, developed by LSI Logic Storage Systems, are marketed by SGI under the InfiniteStorage brand through an OEM arrangement. Serial ATA is a new technology that brings much lower cost-per-megabyte storage to the market, greatly narrowing the price gap between disk and tape. This is good news for customers, particularly in media applications where they need to store terabytes of information as cost- effectively as possible, but they prefer disk-based storage to tape-based.
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