Sans Digital Video Asset Management Appliances

Sans Digital, a leading provider of high performance storage subsystems, is introducing a new line of tower and rackmount appliances for media asset management and archiving. The Sans Digital Video Asset Management VAM product line specifically addresses professionals and organizations that are struggling with data storage of their video, audio, and still images. These affordable, professional grade, network storage archive systems are engineered with media professionals in mind. Built on the industry proven Sans Digital NAS hardware and the award-winning digital content management software VAM, the new Sans Digital VAM series VA003-6E tower and VA308-8E rackmount appliance offer users a complete digital media archiving solution.

The Sans Digital VAM product line was designed around the need for accelerated archive and retrieval workflows of digital media users. Sans Digital VAM is able of search, preview, and re-purpose all forms of digital media and brings quick access to needed content even through enormous amounts of data. This is achieved by using the built-in content management software which helps to create a low-resolution proxy for users for quick and easy preview and search of entire catalogs of video, audio, and still images. Cross-platform ability allows Sans Digital’s VAM tower and rackmounts to support both Mac and PC environments as well as cross-application support for Avid, Final Cut Pro, Premier, and other video editing suites for over-arching management of all video assets. The Sans Digital VAM plug-and-play appliance is the complete solution supporting all forms of digital media with extended video management functionality. The combination of Sans Digital storage hardware and the intuitive Video Content Management software delivers the complete video content management system in an all-in-one appliance. As your data increases over time, Sans Digital VAM is able to easily scale up and combine additional VAM units within a network to provide a pay-as-you-grow system for use in organizations of any size.

Sans Digital VAM comes with two ready to deploy models: VA003-6E and VA308-8E. Both models are pre-built with 4TB and 7TB storage capacity respectively. Both models include LTO-5 tape drives (with LTO-6 drives upgrade available) for offline media. Many video files contain extractable context as well as content file-specific metadata that can be used to identify a particular file or group of files. The video and entertainment industry has evolved its own set of additional context metadata, such as shoot date, edit date, closed caption information, frame rate, lab references, edit decision lists (EDLs), clapper board information, shot markings, and subtitling. The VAM series incorporates that metadata (and a whole lot more) into the post-production process allowing rapid and relevant search and retrieval of needed assets. Once in the VAM database, metadata information follows actual video file assets as they move to different storage locations. At the same time, user-configurable policies then migrate and replicate the video assets to less-costly build-in LTO-5 tape or different VAMs, allowing an unlimited yet manageable storage solution for the never-enough storage need for creative professionals.

“To help support users with their ever expanding growth in video data, the new Sans Digital VAM tower and rackmount solution delivers a complete data storage and archiving management in a single plug-and-play appliance,” stated Stanley Chan, Director of Business Development at Sans Digital. “Based on the industry proven Sans Digital hardware and new intuitive easy-to-use interface and total cost of ownership savings in hardware and software these new appliances can deliver a quality video archive and management experience where it matters most.”

Sans Digital VAM VA003-6E
This plug-and-play desktop cube appliance is a 4-terabyte RAID5 multi-tiered storage solution with one integrated LTO5 drive. Built on an Intel® Core™ i5 processor with 16GB of memory, the VA003-6E provides a building block for the production video asset management. SAS expansion is available for tape library integration.

Sans Digital VAM VA308-8E
This standard 3U rackmount solution with 7-terabyte RAID5 storage and one integrated LTO5 drive (optional second LTO5 drive available) provides a complete multi-tiered digital media storage solution. Built on an Intel® Xeon™ processor, this appliance delivers outstanding performance as a content management storage device. SAS expansion is available for tape library integration.

Sans Digital, a leading provider of high performance storage subsystems, is devoted to provide the highest quality storage devices with great flexibility, performance, aesthetics and value. Sans Digital offers hot-swappable JBOD and RAID storage products for direct attached storage, network attached storage, and storage area network to customers ranging from SOHO (Small Office, Home Office), SMB (Small, Medium Business) to enterprises worldwide.

Sans Digital
Address: 9F, No.36, Jilin Road, Taipei 10424, Taiwan
Phone: +886 2 2581 1182 | Fax: +886 2 2581 0152
Email: sales@sansdigital.com.tw
Website: http://www.sansdigital.com

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