EFS Media Storage | EditShare File System

Creative and Workflow Freedom

Free to choose your own creative toolset as well as a full set of RESTful APIs enabling you to support workflows to suit your needs.

Optimized for digital media workflows

Designed for media and production environments. Redefines storage to maximize digital media performance that is equally suitable for deployment on-premise or in the cloud.

Scalable

Start small and grow with non-disruptive, cost-effective scaling up to 5PB and beyond supporting hundreds of millions of assets.

Product Overview

EFS is a software defined ecosystem uniquely tailored for media centric environments which:

Presents a single namespace eliminating management of multiple storage volumes
Enables you to seamlessly add capacity – simply connect another storage node and EFS rebalances the distribution of data
Scales from single storage node to enterprise cluster
Delivers a combination of dedicated metadata servers, optimized metadata structure, and managed transactional intensity – every frame of every file is delivered on time, every time

Product Features

Collaborative Media Workflow

Share collaborative projects and media with creative users working on-premise and in the cloud. Build the workflows you want on top of an open platform that integrates with industry-leading creative tools from Adobe®, Apple®, Avid®, Autodesk®, BlackMagic Design® and more. Mix and match creative tools while enjoying project sharing and bin locking capabilities in a multi-collaboration environment.

Durable Architecture

Enjoy high availability and extreme reliability with no single point of failure giving facility managers and administrators peace of mind in 24/7 environments. Stay in control with a management console that allows you to adapt the distributed file system to your needs, whether it be a single server of a multi-node cluster. Seamlessly read and utilize parity or copy data from elsewhere in the cluster when a particular storage node is busy or unavailable, increasing performance and reliability with our SwiftRead technology.

Single Name Space

Scale as needed, while retaining a single namespace across tiered storage including nearline disk, SSD, and fast HDD options. Leverage an open platform that provides unprecedented scalability, optimized performance, and data protection. Additionally, with the EFS management console as the “brain” of the EFS technology stack, you can easily control user permissions, projects, security and administrative privileges.

Open APIs

Leverage the openly published RESTFul API’s for simple but powerful integration. Easily accomplish automation of administrative tasks including user permissions, quotas, and projects, saving countless hours of administration.

Native Drivers

Experience increased bandwidth and reliability and reduce latency across the network. Optimized specifically for creative applications, EFS drivers are native for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems and allow direct connectivity to storage resulting in superior performance while also supporting standard protocols like SMB, NFS, and AFP if needed.

Real-time Monitoring

EditShare Guardian offers real-time visibility into the ongoing operations of an EditShare system. An extensive set of dashboards and analytics tools provide custom search capabilities as well as the ability to create custom dashboards and reports based on these searches. Guardian also records user activities such as
media space mounts and unmounts, file opens, reads, writes, and deletes, providing full system accountability.

Writing and Playback of Files

Excel with a system that is optimized and tuned for the high performance, multi-stream video playback demands of post-production, and will maintain performance anywhere from many hundreds of streams of concurrent low-bitrate offline editorial streams to demanding multi-stream uncompressed 4K single-file per-frame workflows and beyond.