Smaller productions receive a bigger infrastructure boost with the introduction of single-node storage solutions

A new breed of storage solutions emerges at NAB 2017, giving smaller productions the infrastructure edge to tackle much larger projects.

Like other market segments, the motion picture and video production industry is dominated by smaller productions and facilities. Until now, the only option for this portion of the market to take advantage of the performance, fault-tolerance and ease of management of a modern scale-out storage platform was to invest in a storage cluster consisting of three storage nodes and at least one metadata controller. While this configuration is ideal for mid- to large-sized productions, the typical 96TB capacity of the smallest three-node cluster was often far beyond the requirements and financial means of smaller facilities and media shops.

That all changed at NAB 2017.

EditShare, one of the early pioneers of intelligent shared storage solutions, introduced a single-node scale-out storage solution, inviting smaller productions to implement a platform traditionally slated for the enterprise workflow.