Evo is a shared storage solution for multimedia production.
The system is developed and tuned for the workflow needs of TV, film, video, graphics, VFX, animation, audio, and broadcast production environments.
Evo enables your whole crew to share a high-performance, consolidated storage system. Everyone can participate in the workflow, whether they're using the latest Mac Pro with Fibre Channel, an iMac, or a 5-year old notebook PC using Ethernet.
Evo is RAID-protected, incredibly fast, easily expandable and its flexibility is unmatched. With Evo, you can connect and share everything — and best of all, you'll spend less and still get better performance than most other storage systems.
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Features
- SAN + NAS
- Fibre Channel and iSCSI
- Ethernet and 10Gb Ethernet
- File, Folder, and Volume sharing
- RAID-protected, optimized for multimedia workgroups
- Direct attach up to 10 computers — simply add a switch for more
- More features
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Benefits
- Share everything from 2K to ProRes
- Import once, instantly share
- File/Live Ingest, edit, playout directly to/from shared storage
- Share proxies, sound effects, and images
- Share between Macs and PCs
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Advantages
- No per-seat licensing
- Attach desktops, notebooks, iMacs
- Supports Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro, Autodesk Smoke, Scratch, Pro Tools and more
- Intuitive Web-based admin tools
- 24x7 tech support available
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Digital content producers all over the world are choosing the Evo shared storage system.
They've discovered that it offers the perfect blend of price, performance, connectivity and expandability for their organization. Evo combines a high-performance, purpose-built storage array with the most extensive connectivity options available for digital video shared storage.
Find out what sets Evo apart from the pack, or contact us for more details.
"At Leftfield, we have 5 reality shows in production and airing, in addition to many programs in development or in the pilot stage for several networks. We're creating content for approximately 80 episodes of reality TV. Between corporate video, commercials, trailers, digital and TV series, every week is controlled chaos, and we're handling it all with EVO... We run multiple shifts, and we have about 20 P2 and SxS cards coming in at all hours of any given day. Every bit of media is ingested and edited on our 160 TB EVO/SANmp system — by any of our 36 FCP Mac Pro and iMac users — in a project sharing workflow." — Colby Gaines, Leftfield Pictures, NY
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Connectivity
Evo offers both Fibre Channel and Ethernet, which isn't something you'll find in most storage systems.
This means you'll have access right out of the box to both volume sharing SAN storage and file/folder locking NAS features, which provide ultimate flexibility and storage consolidation for your digital video post production workflow.
You can even repurpose older storage, such as an Xserve RAID, with Evo's built-in FC-to-Ethernet bridging capabilities!
Compatibility
Video formats — Uncompressed, Animation, ProRes, DNxHD, RED/R3D, DVCProHD, XDCAM, DV, HDV — have very different performance needs, in terms of not only bandwidth but also disk spindles. Some require more complex disk configurations, especially in a shared storage environment.
We test and optimize for peak performance with the leading codecs and applications, assuring compatibility with your needs.
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Performance
Our customers love to push the envelope, so Evo supports the most demanding video such as stereoscopic 3D, 2K and 10-bit uncompressed HD through any of its Fibre Channel SAN ports.
Notebooks, iMacs, and other Gigabit Ethernet-based computers can also connect to Evo and do up to 8-bit uncompressed HD or multiple streams of OfflineRT and formats such as ProRes and DNxHD using Evo's built-in Ethernet ports.
Multiple ports can even be added together to increase performance, and Evo can be optionally upgraded to 10Gb Ethernet for projects that need access to the biggest available pipe.
Sharing
Stop wasting time copying huge files! Evo enables each user to capture, edit, share, and play in real-time — all on central storage — while providing fast access to shared media and other assets from every suite.
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How'd we get these numbers?
If you're comparing specs with other storage systems, the first thing to note is that unlike other manufacturers, we actually fill our disks to near capacity, then we start the real tests. That's important, because it's easy to get higher numbers on new, barely used disks. So, the numbers in our stream chart represent a much harder test — they show what you can expect from an Evo after extensive use, not just what you'll get when it's fresh out of the box.
For the ProRes HQ and Uncompressed HD tests we capture many individual 10, 30 and 60 minute clips using several Mac Pro workstations and Final Cut Pro. The clips are stacked in the timeline, mercilessly chopped up, and edited with transitions/dissolves while random starts, stops and scrubs are performed on the workstations. (We also run Finder copies during captures and playback!) After that, the tests loop continuously over several days.
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RAID 5 — not RAID 50 — was used in all cases. Testing was conducted March 2010 using Evo 2.1 OS with preproduction hardware components, four models of Mac Pro 10.6.2 workstations direct-attached with 4Gbps Fibre Channel, SANmp 3.1, Final Cut Pro 7 and simultaneous unique 10, 15, 30, 60 or 180 minute clips. For good measure, we also used AJA System Test at 16GB File Size, producing averages from several workstations. (16 disks = 2 x 8 disk pools)
Learn more about Evo's features.
Contact us today to learn more about shared storage for your company.
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