EFS:
Open Storage Solutions

Collaborative Media Workflow

Share collaborative projects and media with multiple 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. The EFS open storage solution gives 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, EFS works with you.

Seamlessly read and utilize parity or copy data from elsewhere in the cluster when a storage node is busy or unavailable. EFS increases 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, the management console works 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 APIs 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, reliability and reduced latency across the network. 

Optimized specifically for creative applications, EFS drivers are native for:

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux

They allow direct connectivity to storage resulting in superior performance. EFS also supports standard protocols like SMB, NFS, and AFP.

Real-time Monitoring

EditShare Guardian offers real-time visibility into the ongoing operations of an EditShare system. 

A set of dashboards and analytics tools provide custom search capabilities. The software offers the ability to create custom dashboards and reports based on these searches. 

Guardian also records user activities such as media space mounts and unmounts, individual file opens, reads, writes, and deletes. The software provides 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. 

EFS maintains performance anywhere. From 100s of streams of concurrent low-bitrate offline editorial streams to demanding multi-stream uncompressed 4K single-file per-frame workflows and beyond.

EFS 450

A 3-node, 192 TB entry-level cluster with over 2.3 GB/s of bandwidth that can scale linearly to more than unlimited capacity

EFS 300

Enterprise-scale high-perfomance shared storage for media production

EFS 200

An entry level server that can scale to a three-node configuration supporting 360 TB

Metadata Controller

The ‘control system’ for the movement and connections to any large-scale deployment of multiple EFS nodes

EFS SSD

Engineered for bandwidth-hungry formats such as uncompressed DPX, DNxHR 444 and ProRes 4444 – scaling from 8TB to 5PB

EFS 60NL

Enterprise class, distributed scale-out storage designed for the most demanding collaborative media environments

EFS 40NL

A storage node intended for ‘parking’ media that needs immediate accessibility but at the extreme speed of an online production workflow

ARK

The solution for backup your content to tape or disk – whether temporary, short-term, or permanent archive