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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 4 | April 2016

InMedia

NetApp Raise The Storage Bar

M

uch has changed, claim NetApp,
since the last NAB Show, and
dynamic disk pools in the E-Series
storage systems raise the bar for
consistent video bandwidth; larger flash
drives accelerate big-data analytics,
transcoding and metadata workloads;
StorageGRID Webscale for multisite
object storage and data mobility; and
graphics-accelerated virtual desktop
for Adobe Premiere video production.
Now users can edit from the cloud with
the speed of NVIDIA Grid.
Featured products will include:
E5600 Series Storage Systems
With Dynamic Disk Pools - facilities
counting on a certain bandwidth to
meet production deadlines can't afford
to have their storage systems creep to
a crawl for several days during a 6TB
disk rebuild. With NetApp E-Series,
they don't have to. Broadcasters and
production facilities have discovered
that dynamic disk pools (DDP) on
E-Series storage systems provide more
consistent video bandwidth than other
block storage systems for two reasons.
One is that the resiliency scheme

provides drastically more consistent
performance upon disk failure (50%
more bandwidth during rebuilds than
standard RAID). The other is that it
dramatically reduces data rebuild time
(1/8 the time of standard RAID).
NetApp will also highlight big-data
analytics workflows accelerated with
E-Series enterprise building blocks.
DDP has the advantage of randomising
writes to disk, which improves
performance in the case of all-flash
arrays. Analytics searches have run
50 times faster in some E-Series
deployments
versus
commodity
servers with internal drives.
NetApp will promote new features in
its StorageGRID Webscale (appliance
or software-defined) object storage
solution
for
managing
media
repositories across time and space.
The object store has been widely
adopted by media sites and media
cloud providers who are managing
tens of billions of media objects. Now
a majority of the key MAM, filedelivery and archive systems
have integrated to StorageGRID

Webscale's
Amazon
S3
object
interface.
StorageGRID Webscale is a nextgeneration solution for multipetabyte
distributed
content
repositories.
It provides erasure coding or,
alternatively, automatic file copies to
remote locations depending on the
value of the media and the needs of
the workflow. StorageGRID Webscale's
metadata-driven information life cycle
management software suite is more
advanced than most object stores.
Additional features include selfhealing data protection and tiering to
NetApp E5600
E-Series storage

IPV Focuses On MAM
System Functions

U

K-based MAM and technology
specialist, IPV, will demonstrate
the latest advances in its Curator MAM
system.
IPV will showcase how Curator
responds to industry trends such as
the drive towards IP-based operations
and the emergence of UHD broadcasts.
In particular, IPV will showcase

IPV Curator User Interface

developments in Curator's UI that
are designed to enhance the system's
simplicity of operation and its ability
to configure the UI to the specific
requirements of an individual user
organisation.
Curator is the product of an eightyear development initiative at IPV:
from day one it has been configured

either cloud or tape.
The NetApp clustered Data ONTAP
operating system running on the
company's FAS8000 Series of
enterprise storage systems drastically
improves video bandwidth and
provides always-on operation for
local broadcast-news operations,
advertising sales, animation and VFX
rendering, and high-speed transcoding
for digital platforms. Data ONTAP can
enable data mobility between private
and public clouds, and its disasterrecovery software can improve overall
data-management strategies.

as a software-only product running
on standard IT servers. IP-based
operation has been a cornerstone
of its proposition throughout its
development, so at NAB, IPV will
demonstrate how this advanced MAM
system is strategically positioned to
help broadcasters and facilities that
are looking to migrate to IP-based
operations. 4K support
will be another focus for
IPV at NAB. Curator's
codecs
are
format
agnostic, so 4K support
is straightforward for
this system. At NAB, IPV
will demonstrate the
sophistication of its 4K
proposition, as well as
revealing its strategic UHD
roadmap to 4K, 8K and
beyond.
Intuitive user interfaces
are a major new feature
of the latest iteration of

Curator. At NAB, IPV will demonstrate
the ease with which a user can develop
the exact screen-based UI that they
need. By configuring the UI to their
specific operational requirements,
IPV believes that Curator can create
significant efficiencies in customer
facilities, and also in their clients'
operations.
"During the last 12 months we have
channelled significant resources into
the development of Curator and at
NAB visitors will start to see the results
of this initiative," commented David
Cole, CEO of IPV. "2016 will prove to
be a strategic milestone year for our
company and this will be evident to
visitors to our booth at NAB."
IPV Curator is a real-time Media
Asset Management solution which
makes it easy for users to achieve
collaborative workflows in a fast
paced, live production environment.
Curator
assures
immediate
access to all incoming media and
archive content on a standard IT
infrastructure.
Modular,
highly
scalable and affordable, Curator
provides unprecedented video and
audio handling at the desktop, and
incorporates IPV's proven SpectreView
technology.
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