Creative teams can now use EVO’s included ShareBrowser MAM to archive and restore media from XenData LTO archives
St. Louis, MO – September 11, 2025 – Studio Network Solutions (SNS) today announced a new integration between its high-performance EVO shared storage servers and XenData LTO archives, enabling creative teams to easily manage both their active and archived media from one centralized interface.
Creative teams can use EVO’s built-in ShareBrowser MAM to search, browse, preview, archive, and restore media from XenData LTO archives—consolidating their online, nearline, cloud, and LTO storage infrastructure in a unified media management experience.
Matt Ratkowski, Director of Engineering at SNS, said: “Creative teams rely on EVO for high-performance online storage and fast-paced collaboration on active projects. Incorporating archived content into the ShareBrowser user experience expands visibility across the entire media environment, whether files are online, in the cloud, or in LTO archive.”
Dr. Phil Storey, XenData CEO, stated: “The ShareBrowser-XenData integration uses our proven file system interface which is highly scalable and accessed using the SMB network protocol. It is a rock-solid approach that works well for all archive needs from smaller installations to those that have massive amounts of media content.”
The integration works with XenData’s standard file system interface, which scales beyond 100PB and over a billion files. Archived content is stored on LTO cartridges using the LTFS interchange format, providing a reliable, cost-effective long-term solution without vendor lock-in. XenData systems manage data protection within the archive by automatically replicating cartridges or backing up archives to the cloud.
Support for XenData LTO archives is available now for EVO systems running the latest EVO OS. See the workflow in action at IBC2025, stand 7.B26.
About XenData
XenData is a global provider of professional data storage solutions optimized for video and other applications with high volumes of large files. It offers cutting edge hybrid cloud solutions and highly scalable on-premises active archive systems. XenData has customers in over 95 countries, including government organizations, global media companies and other large corporations. For more information visit xendata.com.
About SNS
Studio Network Solutions (SNS) is a creative, award-winning, media technology company specializing in high-performance shared storage workflow solutions for media production and post-production teams. On premise, in the cloud, or both, SNS’s scalable EVO shared storage solutions come with the award-winning EVO Suite, featuring built-in media asset management and advanced workflow tools that integrate with other leading creative technologies, including Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Final Cut Pro®, DaVinci Resolve®, Avid® Media Composer®, and more. Trusted by video professionals worldwide, SNS empowers post-production, broadcast, and VFX teams in over 80 countries to create amazing content, faster, from anywhere.