Data and storage are ongoing concerns for content owners and managers in the
industry, so it is no surprise that every second exhibitor at IBC was touting their
latest solution for this persistent and endlessly scalable challenge. Among these was
EVS’s XStore, which took its place alongside such industry mainstays as the XT3
server.
EVS divides its solutions into four categories: news, sport, entertainment and
media. The XStore is designed to be integrated with all and any of these and is
intended to tackle the challenges of managing and storing video content across a
range of applications. The XStore comes in three variants – Production, Archive and
HE, all of which have a capacity of up to 2PB and can perform anywhere in the
5Gbps and 30Gbps range.
EVS product manager Sebastien Maindiaux said: “The broadcasters and production
companies we work with were clear in their demands: they needed seamless
integration with very high performance shared storage, so they can serve multiple
outputs and multiple platforms quickly and cost effectively. XStore is the direct
result of those requirements.’
XStore Production formed part of the end-to-end news workflow that EVS provided
to IBC TV News. Daily news from the exhibition and conference was delivered
online via streaming to both visitors and those who couldn’t make the show and
wanted to keep abreast of developments. EVS facilitated this with a solution that
included live feed ingest, ENG file import, content management and news editing for
the onsite broadcaster.
Other EVS products used in the onsite news broadcast system were the IPDirector
for live production asset management; Xedio CleanEdit for rought cut editing and
news assembly; Xsquare, an orchestration and transcoding tool; and IPLink for
Adobe, a plugin giving all editors access to the material stored on XStore for
through Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
