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TBN decided to use eStor for its massive available storage and its unique workflow in support of Avid Unity storage Off-load. As a hybrid primary networked storage and archive storage TBN decided to deploy eStor for four of their digital media workgroups storage consolidation. Namely, via flexible Multi-GE network connectivity (a) TBN team was able to offer a consolidate shared network storage for their FCP editing workflow (b) Consolidate their network storage for their Graphics workgroup (c) Leverage eStor built in FTP server functionality to push/Pull content to remote off-site as a storage mail-box (d) Most important of all be able to off-load TBN’s AVID Unity media content to eStor.

The task of interoperability of Unity and eStor is handled by offering Gateway functionality between AVID and eStor as well as protecting Avid data using eStor’s RAID-6 data protection scheme. As a part of Avid Off-load support, all the Avid MXF files can be off-loaded to eStor as a disk based archive for Avid Unity and facilitate opening up room on the precious AVID Unity Storage platform. To facilitate the ease of storage management for all workgroups’ consolidated storage, Apace Systems’ eStor is managed via a Web based GUI by the TBN administrator from any local IP node no-site or off-site over Internet. With this simple but power management tool, all the rights of access to dedicated storage partitions of workgroups are monitored and changed from one central location. Given the benefit of eStor’s Gigabit Ethernet LAN based connectivity and heterogeneous support of MAC, PC and UNIX and Linux based client nodes any workgroup at TBN can be supported over simple GE IP connection over their LAN network. All the nodes in the different workgroups see eStor as their network drive and interact with it as they would with their local drive. The benefit of eStor very high throughput optimization for push/pull of digital content such as uncompressed video, allows eStor to play an important role balancing required response time from different TBN workgroups all from the same System. In the case of Avid unity off-load, Apace Systems has offered an end-to-end approach to addressing the management of the content from and back to Avid Unity as a part of archive and retrieve storage process transparent to the Avid Unity and its editing workgroup. In summary, TBN has been able to facilitate consolidation of all of its storage needs and off-load its AVID Unity avoiding complex archive to tape. Also, TBN consolidated storage strategy over IP based LAN allows for ease of access and view from of all of its digital content from any IP network over the world.

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