Post-production company requirements fueling adoption of Fusion File Share by Tuxera to enable real-time networked data access for vfx, animation and other high-bandwidth studio operations

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by Tuxera performing ultra-high speed networked file accesses from storage. Tuxera technical staff will be on hand to explain how storage providers can enable the latest exciting production effects for their media and entertainment customers by addressing the bottleneck in their data access layer.

Beating industry performance standards for networked data access

The Fusion File Share software provides a dramatic uplift in the speed, throughput and reliability of networked data access for all workflows performed in media and entertainment studios, editing suites and post-production facilities, including:

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With Fusion File Share by Tuxera running on state-of-the-art hardware and software storage systems from Tuxera's partners, studio technicians can perform concurrent processes such as color grading and video editing on raw 8K video feeds with no loss of definition, and with data throughput typically exceeding 10GB/s.

Antti Alila, VP of Enterprise Solutions at Tuxera, said: 'Just one simple change can unlock the full potential of your content storage and network bandwidth. Fusion File Share by Tuxera – our high-performance SMB protocol solution – is transforming the work of production studios and video technicians in the media and entertainment industry, producing huge improvements in efficiency and productivity. We know that studios are putting heavy investments into the best workstations, the best effects software, the highest bandwidth networks, and the best storage hardware and software. All those investments essentially go to waste if at the protocol level the system cannot scale and deliver the needed throughput.'

'Now technology will not get in the way of studios making whatever effects they can imagine.'

How Fusion File Share by Tuxera works

Fusion File Share by Tuxera connects the users of data over networks to storage servers, continuously providing high throughput while maintaining data integrity regardless of the status of the infrastructure over which data are transferred. The most widely used alternative to the open-source SAMBA software, Fusion File Share offers up to 60x higher throughput and as much as 500% better scalability. Compatible with the SMB protocol up to version 3.1.1, Fusion File Share also offers RDMA capability.

In addition, its scale-out feature enables the creation of parallel and scalable multi-SMB cluster service, providing faster throughput with low CPU and memory usage.

Internally validated test data demonstrate the superior performance of Fusion File Share when handling multimedia workloads such as ultra-high definition video. The results were derived from a live staged concert set-up consisting of a 16K x 16K, 60fps video livestream to a giant display screen from 27 storage nodes via media servers with active-active scale-out SMB and storage clustering. The application required zero frame drops or latency, to give concert goers an uninterrupted, immersive viewing experience while maintaining throughput for an event lasting for several hours.

In a major storage provider's cluster running Fusion File Share with RDMA enabled, the file sharing system fully saturated the network with data transfers running at up to 412GB/s. The Fusion File Storage software's low resource usage also enabled SMB service directly on the storage nodes, with no requirement for protocol nodes or extra hardware.

For more information about Tuxera and Fusion File share, go to www.tuxera.com.

About Tuxera

Tuxera is the leading provider of quality-assured embedded storage management software and networking technologies. Helping people and businesses store and do more with their data, our software is at the core of phones, tablets, cars, TV sets, cameras, drones, external storage, routers, spacecraft, IoT devices, and more. We help you store your data reliably, while making file transfers fast and content easily accessible. Tuxera is also an active member of multiple industry organizations, including JEDEC, AGL, SD Association, The Linux Foundation, and many others. Founded in 2008, Tuxera's headquarters are located in Finland, with regional offices in China, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the US.

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