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DVS integrates DataDirect Networks components in its DVS-SAN for enterprise-level centralised storage solutions (23/10/2007)

At Colorfront, a leading post production house in Budapest, DVS Digital Video Systems GmbH is installing an innovative DVS-SAN featuring DataDirect Networks components. This step is part of the DVS strategy for the expansion of its product range of centralized storage solutions for broadcast and post production.

In mid-July, Hungarian post production house Colorfront made a decision to acquire a 43-Terabyte DVS-SAN. This centralized storage system will provide the renowned post production house with extremely fast storage and administration capabilities for its resource-intensive projects. The customer settled for a massive-parallel DVS-SAN with DataDirect Networks (DDN) components. The system is the only one capable of handling six uncompressed 2K streams simultaneously in real time. With this version of its DVS-SAN, DVS achieves extremely high data rates while simultaneously fulfilling data security requirements by implementing a RAID-5 system.

With its DDN components, the DVS-SAN does not only achieve extremely high data rates. It also has an increased overall storage capacity in order to fulfill the customer requirements of enhanced performance and maximum safety against hard disk failure. With the integration of DDN, DVS is expanding its product portfolio to include a true enterprise-level solution in addition to its entrylevel and mid-size storage systems. This enables DVS to meet customer requirements, such as those of Colorfront, with perfectly tailored products for both post production and broadcast.

DVS-SAN, the centralized storage solution by DVS, is equipped with state-of-the-art RAID controller technology and maximizes storage capacity and bandwidth. The DVS-SAN is ideal for collaborative DI workflows that require distributed storage combined with real-time access to SD, HD, 2K and 4K material. With its DVS Spycer(r) data management system, the DVS-SAN also features a high-performance toolkit for browsing and searching, for editing metadata, as well as for high-speed copying and defragmentation of data.

Markus Kohaupt, DVS Product Manager: "We enjoy using innovative methods to ensure optimum workflows for our customers. With DataDirect Networks, we have a highly reliable partner to support us in this effort. The decision of a renowned post production house such as Colorfront to go for one of our current DVS-SAN versions encourages us to continue pursuing the strategic expansion of our range of centralized storage solutions."

"We're pleased to partner with DVS in supplying them with our S2A (Silicon Storage Architecture) appliance technology for their DVS-SAN," noted Paul Bloch, president of DataDirect Networks. "The S2A's open real-time architecture enables their SAN solution to work with the many types of workstations and applications needed to create in real-time while elevating the performance of heterogeneous shared file systems within Fiber Channel fabrics. The DVS-SAN can now easily scale to handle the bandwidth and capacity intensive requirements needed in the 2K and 4K digital intermediate space, empowering true real-time collaborative workflows in digital post-production."

Aron Jaszberenyi, Colorfront managing director commented: "We are developing our DI post production business into one of the leading facilities in Europe. To compete for the best work we need an efficient pipeline infrastructure based around fast and reliable storage. The DVS-SAN, equipped with DataDirect Networks components, provides us with the industry-leading performance we need moving ahead."

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