Issue link: http://digital.copcomm.com/i/57245
STORAGE SOLUTIONS Storage News iQ-XL debuts from iQstor NEWBURY PARK, CA — iQstor (www.iqstor.com) has intro- duced its iQ-XL high-performance digital media disk array, an aff ordable, intelligent storage solution with sustained throughput well over 4,000MB/s, which is ideal for multi- stream content creation and broadcast applications. The new product is designed to off er unparalleled perfor- mance with built-in AST read ahead buff ering technology Active's mRAID supports mMedia platform that eliminates frame drops. It features an 8Gb fi bre channel front end with 4GB of cache per controller (expandable to 16GB), 64-bit Intel Quad Core CPU per controller and True Active-Active Dual Controllers. iQ-XL streams 4K in a single 16-bay SAS and provides multiple stream support of HD, ProRes and more. iQstor's iQ-XL supports 6Gb/s SAS and NL- SAS disk drives; DAS, workgroup and networked environ- ments; and Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms. The product's 3U 16-bay enclosure is expandable up to 240 disk drives with an aff ordable expansion chassis. Other standard features include RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, on- line RAID expansion and multiple RAID sets; a VMware VSphere plug-in; enhanced AST backup agents for SQL, Oracle, and Ex- change; thin provisioning hot swap disk drives and global hot spare disks; automatic drive failure detection and rebuild; and MAID 2.0 Support Storage Management software. TORRANCE, CA — Active Storage (www.activestorage.com) has announced mRAID, a high-capacity, high-performance and high-availability RAID storage solution that provides key high-capacity online production storage for the company's new mMedia platform, which delivers an end-to-end work- fl ow storage solution for post and broadcast. "The mRAID is unlike any storage you have used in a cre- ative workfl ow," says Active Storage founder/president Alex Grossman. "It's fast, smart, scalable and easy. As heteroge- neous workstation environments are becoming the norm, and increased resolutions and more distribution formats make ad-hoc approaches unworkable, the mRAID changes the game, making it easy to host powerful applications and support multiple Petabytes of connected storage." Active's mRAID, which off ers 48TBs of storage capacity in 3RU, has the throughput and low latency to power high- bandwidth post and broadcast production environments. mRAID is engineered to handle current and next-gen Intel- based storage processors with a new CrossFlow cooling sys- tem and a new high-speed bus interconnect between RAID controllers, new multi-core aware software design, and next-gen, hot-swappable Environmental Processing Engine. Archion EditStor ES adds Avid project sharing BURBANK — Archion (www.archion.com) EditStor ES shared storage system now provides Avid project sharing that enables complete collaboration between multiple Avid editors simultaneously working on the same open project. This enhancement, which is transparent to the Avid workfl ow, is an example of how Archion is using its 10 years of experience with Avid workfl ows. "EditStor ES off ers the native Avid project sharing that once only existed when using Avid shared storage solu- tions," says Archion CTO James Tucci. "We've made it possible for Avid users to realize the benefi ts of this feature while also enjoying greater media management tools." EditStor ES is a shared storage system that has been specifi cally designed with the level of fea- tures and scalability needed for media workfl ows. "Having more than a decade of Avid workfl ow and shared storage experience, our customers rely on us to introduce and enhance products that improve their workfl ows," says Archion COO Reuben Lima. 12 • Storage Solutions • March 2012