Archion introduces Omni Hybrid storage solution
July 14, 2016

Archion introduces Omni Hybrid storage solution

LOS ANGELES — Archion Technologies has introduced into the entertainment, broadcasting and multi-media industries its EditStor Omni Hybrid — the company’s newest product within its family of collaborative storage solutions for demanding media workflows. The announcement was made by Reuben Lima, CEO/founder, Archion.

According to the company, Archion’s new Omni Hybrid is an ideal storage solution for virtual reality, augmented reality, visual effects, animation and motion graphics, as well as other rendered content. Archion reports that its Omni Hybrid offer a powerful combination of an unprecedented amount of bandwidth through a single NAS media server to handle 4K DPX/UHD streaming video and outstanding accelerated IOPS performance dedicated to rendering, CGI and transcoding applications.  

Omni Hybrid offers high performance: 8,000 MB/second for 4K and other streaming demands, and over 600,000 IOPS for rendering and CGI graphics. The product has been certified with Adobe After Effects, Autodesk, Maya/Flame/Lustre, Foundry Nuke, Blackmagic Resolve and more. The Omni Hybrid also offers scalability, with simple and affordable expansion, and can grow to 1.5 Petabytes of data.

James Tucci, Archion’s chief technology officer, says, “It’s a testament to the significant intellectual property we've built over the years that enables our company to offer such tremendous performance both in throughput and IOPS with a single affordable NAS system. This enables accelerated graphics and editorial workflows on the one system. This is a huge advantage, as the user does not have to wait to migrate media from one tier to the other.”  

“Our brand new Omni Hybrid finally enables today’s creative facilities to avoid storage infrastructure that includes multiple storage servers and complicated, over-priced SAN technology,” adds Lima. “Omni Hybrid outperforms all other shared storage solutions for demanding streaming applications and for animation and visual effects workflows. We developed the Omni Hybrid as part of our ongoing commitment to meeting our customers’ needs as they move into new media platforms, including virtual reality and augmented reality. This remarkable new product is unmatched by any other company in the marketplace.”