Quantum introduced the discharge of the H4000 Important, an all-in-one equipment that integrates Quantum CatDV media asset administration and Quantum StorNext 7 shared storage software program on the award-winning H4000 storage platform. The H4000 Important offers extremely out there shared storage and computerized content material indexing, discovery, and workflow collaboration for small inventive groups. It doesn’t require specialised IT expertise to help, might be up and operating in minutes, and gives distinctive options that combine media administration and storage so these groups can spend extra time creating and fewer time trying to find content material. Now for the primary time, the identical applied sciences utilized by the biggest studios, broadcasters, and post-production homes can be found to small inventive groups all over the place, beginning at an entry-level prompt retail value beneath $40,000.
“What’s outstanding concerning the new H4000 Important is that we’ve introduced an important capabilities of two highly effective platforms – CatDV and StorNext – and brought away the complexity and time in configuring and managing them individually and organising manufacturing workflows. The H4000 Important is the quickest resolution to face up for a brand new challenge or a brand new crew – whether or not working instantly on the storage, collaborating remotely from the sector, managing a number of initiatives concurrently, or all of the above,” stated Dave Clack, vp and common supervisor, Cloud Software program and Analytics, Quantum. “For the primary time, these industry-leading applied sciences are in attain of small inventive teams all over the place.”
“Swap is a fast-moving, agile model and expertise company for main content material and enterprise manufacturers – our work bridges digital and model advertising and marketing with digital and hybrid assembly occasions, tradeshows, and discipline advertising and marketing. We’ve a number of initiatives in flight always throughout our crew, so it’s essential to us to have an all-in-one content material administration and storage resolution just like the H4000 Important for our fast-moving deliverables,” stated Darren Temple, CEO and president of Swap.
The H4000 Important options are purpose-built for the wants of small, unbiased inventive groups and embrace:
- StorNext collaborative shared storage programs of beginning at both 48TB or 96TB of uncooked storage in a compact 2U server, expandable as much as 384TB with buy of further storage
- A highly-available dual-controller structure
- An intuitive out of the field consumer expertise designed for inventive professionals to rise up and operating rapidly
- 25GbE networking connection to buyer networks
- Unified StorNext and CatDV account creation with StorNext-powered SMB storage quantity sharing
- StorNext shared storage operations to set off file ingesting, metadata extraction, proxy and filmstrip creation without having ‘file tree polling’
- Automated content material ingest, metadata extraction, proxy, thumbnail, and filmstrip creation
- Automated content material cataloging and indexing primarily based on folder construction, made instantly out there to all customers
- Extremely environment friendly StorNext and CatDV integration to keep away from file system polling that may impression efficiency
- Quantum CatDV pre-installed and pre-configured to be used by as much as 10 named customers, together with use of Adobe Premiere Professional CatDV Panel
- Integration with Quantum Cloud-Based mostly Analytics (CBA) software program for distant, proactive system monitoring
- Accessible archiving plugins for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, or selection of S3-compatible storage
The out there archive plugins are a robust approach to lengthen CatDV’s searchable catalog as initiatives are accomplished and moved to cloud storage, but preserve them out there for quick recall as wanted on the H4000 Important:
“We love empowering agile, inventive groups with cloud storage that delivers ease, flexibility, and quick availability once they want it. Pairing the H4000 Important’s spectacular characteristic set with the Backblaze B2 Archive plugin does simply that—it lets clients develop and defend archives at any scale whereas sustaining visibility into all of the content material they’ve saved on Backblaze B2 by way of the highly effective visible catalogs the UI offers,” stated Nilay Patel, vp of gross sales and partnerships at Backblaze.
“We’re impressed with how briskly it’s to get a completely configured and built-in occasion of StorNext-powered shared storage and Quantum CatDV up and operating” stated Nick Smith, vp know-how, Exertis Broadcast. “We see H4000 Important as a robust approach to get world-class instruments within the arms of content material groups throughout our nationwide community of value-added resellers.”
