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Keep every asset ready to create, deliver and recover.
Media storage is not one workload. An edit needs throughput now, a playout chain needs predictability, and a master needs to survive a decade. AiRE gives each of them its own policy on one platform, underneath the tools you already run.
- NFS and SMB with Fibre Channel and iSCSI
- Unlimited immutable snapshots
- Edge studio to 20 PiB
The problem
Storage islands are where the money goes.
Footage, projects and masters accumulate on whatever was bought for the job at the time. Each island has its own capacity ceiling, its own backup arrangement and its own refresh date, and none of them were planned together.
Growth in content then turns into manual migration. Someone decides what moves off the fast tier and when, and that decision is made under deadline by whoever is available. The operational cost hides in exactly that judgement.
The consequence shows up on the worst possible day. A disruption becomes a time-critical search for which copy of an asset is the good one — across systems that describe themselves differently.
- Create
Ingest · edit suites · MAM · render
Performance profile
- Manage
Data sets · policy · protection
Per-asset policy
- Deliver
Transcode · origin · playout · CDN
Predictable latency
- Preserve
Vault replica · DR · long retention
Optimisation profile
One AiRE data platform
NFS and SMB for file, Fibre Channel and iSCSI for block — concurrently, from the same unit. The tools above change at every stage; this layer does not.
What STORViX does about it
The resilient storage foundation for every media lifecycle.
AiRE integrates beneath your MAM, post-production, transcoding, playout and CDN workflows. Retain the media applications your team relies on while deploying an adaptable, highly available data layer that removes complexity and safeguards your assets.
Concurrent multiprotocol access
File workflows over NFS and SMB and block workflows over Fibre Channel or iSCSI, served from the same unit at the same time. Edit suites and virtualised infrastructure do not need separate storage.
- NFS and SMB for file
- Fibre Channel and iSCSI for block
- One unit, concurrent access
A policy per asset, not per box
Storage behaviour is set on the data set, so active production, nearline and archive can carry different block sizes, reduction and protection while living on the same platform.
- Performance profile for active edit
- Optimisation profile for the archive
- Resilience profile for masters
Unlimited immutable snapshots
Copy-on-write snapshots cannot be altered once taken, so they answer two very different problems with the same mechanism: recovering the estate after a ransomware attack, and recovering the project an editor overwrote at two in the morning.
- Immutable once taken
- Instant revert
- Instant clones with no extra space
Adaptive workload optimisation
Profiles and policies adjust I/O path management, cache behaviour and block size as the mix shifts between ingest, render and delivery, rather than being tuned once at install.
- Variable block size per data set
- Automated profile recognition
- Continuous policy enforcement
Off-site preservation in Vault
Asynchronous replication into geographically separated STORViX data centres in EU countries, with integrated disaster recovery. Long retention stops competing with the production budget.
- One-way replication — a compromised source cannot reach back
- AES 256 at rest
- Recovery over the network or by shipped drives
From an edge studio to a petabyte estate
A compact single-controller unit suits a regional studio or a controlled edge workload. The 4U dual-controller platform scales into petabytes for a central facility, with the same software on both.
- Compact edge unit for a small site
- 4U dual controller for the core
- Up to 100 GbE or 16 Gb FC connectivity
Outcomes
What changes for the operation
One capacity plan instead of five
When production, nearline and archive share a platform, growth is a single conversation rather than a negotiation between islands.
Migration stops being a manual decision
Policies move data by rule rather than by whoever is on shift, which removes the class of incident where something moves at the wrong moment.
Recovery is a revert, not a search
Immutable point-in-time snapshots mean the good copy is identifiable rather than something to be hunted across systems.
The existing toolchain is untouched
AiRE sits underneath MAM, edit, transcode and playout. Nothing above the data layer has to change to adopt it.
What a sizing conversation needs
Media estates differ enough that a generic configuration is rarely the right one.
Bring the shape of the work rather than a capacity number: how many concurrent edit streams and at what resolution, whether transcode runs on the same infrastructure, what the playout chain will not tolerate, and how long masters must be kept.
Those four answers drive the disk pack, tiering and protection topology choices much more than total capacity alone. A brief sizing session is faster than trading spec sheets — and it delivers an accurate configuration instead of a quote for the wrong setup.
Size it against your actual production load.
Concurrent streams, resolution, transcode, playout tolerance and retention. Those five inputs produce a configuration; a capacity figure on its own does not.