We will make your DI workflow really flow. Your productivity is key to your success, and we bring enormous experience in delivering efficient data pipelines and cross-platform workflows.

In today’s busy post-production environment, data management must be as streamlined as possible. But sharing data around a facility, and across platforms, can be error-prone, and more often than not it’s just slow and boring.

Whether your infrastructure is Windows, Linux or Mac OS X-based, or a combination of all of these, we have file-sharing and storage architecture solutions that will minimise your daily struggles, and maximise your productivity.

We will work with you to implement a high-speed file sharing storage area network (SAN) management software that enables new levels cross-platform workgroup collaboration. Using our Di workflow solution, multiple users – film and video editors, digital artists – can share access to common data files in workgroups where heavy bandwidth is required And all of it done as easily and transparently as if the content was stored on their local drive.

We can fuel the most creative and demanding of environments, and ultimately help you to reduce the cost of managing mission-critical resources.

We can seamlessly integrate SAN and LAN networks using multi-point gateway software that connects your enterprise LAN with your high-speed SAN – and your entire facility will reap the benefits. You can choose the network topology that best suits your needs – SAN for bandwidth and real scalability, LAN for lower cost and ease of deployment, or a combination of both. You can also choose the building blocks that deliver the performance and scalability you need – fibre channel, InfiniBand, Gigabit ethernet, and even iSCSI.



We offer:

Heterogeneous operating system support
Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and Linux users can share content and collaborate efficiently

Simultaneous high-speed file sharing
No volume-locking restrictions! All users can read AND write to the same volume

Hardware and software agnostic
Compatible with all standard applications, storage, and network technologies - including Infiniband, 8Gb FC, 10 GigE, and iSCSI. Supports stripe sets, trunking and multipathing.

Native OS file system support
Preserves the integrity of NTFS and HFS+ file systems and simplifies SAN maintenance. Manage volumes up to 18 exabytes in size!

Native OS access rights management
No need to manage additional accounts and passwords for true file sharing

Per-node bandwidth usage control
Bandwidth reservation and bandwidth quota for each SAN member allows for a fair and optimal distribution of the available network bandwidth

Virtualization for Avid®
Enables sharing of media files among multiple users of Avid® software on Windows platforms for efficient workgroup collaboration.

Centralized management of SAN definitions
Simplifies SAN management by allowing global, as well as local SAN settings to be controlled from a single workstation

Soft zoning
Enables the shared storage to be partitioned in a number of zones that permit the compartmentalization of data for increased security

24/7 mission-critical ready
Access to SAN is fully redundant with true real-time failover capability

Fibre Channel to Ethernet Failover
Users can still save their work and exit gracefully in case of a Fibre Channel malfunction

Multi-point gateway for LAN
MetaLAN gives your LAN clients block-level access to your high-speed SAN through one of the available data server gateways!






We'll help to minimise your daily struggles and maximise your productivity. With our DI workflow solution you can enjoy...
> High-speed file sharing
> Cross-platform collaboration
> Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
> Seamless integration with SAN and LAN networks
> Scaleable solutions that meet your budget
> Reduced management costs of mission-critical resources
   

Sample configurations:


Apple Mac OS X centric SAN
This is the most popular setup for high-performance editing on Mac platform. Windows and Linux members can also participate in the SAN.


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Windows OS centric SAN

This is the most popular setup for high-performance editing on Windows platform. Mac and Linux members can also participate in the SAN.


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VMWare Integration
This is a typical setup when using metaSAN with VMWare.



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Microsoft Windows Server Cluster Services
Microsoft Cluster Services can be used with metaSAN. Please note that a special integration procedure is available from support.



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Microsoft Windows Streaming Server
Microsoft Windows Streaming Server can be used with metaSAN. Please note that a special integration procedure is available from support.



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