At BVE 2016, taking place from 23 to 25 February 2016 at the ExCeL London, Pixit
Media will demonstrate its software defined storage as a central repository to
provide 4K uncompressed playback for a number of leading applications used in the
broadcast and post-production industries. Google, NetApp, Mellanox, Digital Vision,
The Foundry and Adobe will be amongst the companies demonstrating their latest
technologies through the PixStor central NAS storage system on Stand K11.
Highlighting PixStor users’ ability to utilise industry standard commodity hardware,
technology partner NetApp will display its latest all flash disk arrays. Mellanox, a
supplier of end-to-end interconnect services for servers and storage will display its
high speed network and switching.
Software partners on the stand will demonstrate the performance and management
capability of the 4K workflow, showing operators that they can also render using
Google compute through industry standard commodity hardware components.
Digital Vision will display its 4K grading and restoration software Nucoda, alongside
NUKE Studio for VFX Editorial and Finishing from The Foundry as well Adobe’s
complete Creative Suite, which is utilised for graphic design, video editing and web
development applications.
Additionally, PixStor’s ability to seamlessly extend into Google cloud and store
content using Google Nearline storage will be demonstrated. Visitors will benefit
from a demonstration of how PixStor is able to seamlessly transfer and store data
whilst maintaining file system intelligence into the Google Cloud platform. Utilising
the vast resources of Google Cloud storage in conjunction with the PixCache Cloud
Gateway Appliance, guests to the stand will witness PixStor’s ability to submit
render jobs to cloud based render farms and return these completed jobs.
“At Pixit Media we appreciate that with ever decreasing budgets companies need
intelligent and data aware file systems to ensure data is stored on the most cost
effective storage platforms,’ said Barry Evans, technical director, Pixit Media.
“That’s why we’re pleased to be demonstrating our relevant solutions this year at
BVE, enabling customers to invest wisely in non-proprietary technology that does
not lock them in to one vendor.’
Demonstrating further integration, also on display will be General Atomics data
management software suite, Nirvana. This metadata centric storage management
tool enables users to make secure commercial decisions on where to store data and
use advanced analytics to help make decisions on where to keep it and for how
long.
