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BITS & PIECES www.postmagazine.com 6 POST APRIL 2016 C O N S O L E S Advanced Technical Furniture Systems • tbcconsoles.com • 1.888.console • Configured for exactly the way you work BOOTH# C 9 9 2 1 Ready for what's next . . . FACILIS, STORAGEDNA HOST WORKFLOW DEMO NEW YORK — Facilis Technology (www.facilis.com), Video Technologies Group, and StorageDNA recently teamed up to host a workflow demonstration in New York City. Facilis' Jim McKenna headed up the presentation, which focused on collaboration within an Adobe workflow, though the company's solutions are also well suited for use with Avid, Final Cut Pro and Resolve. Facilis is incorporating new solid state drive technology into its TerraBlock Hybrid24 and SSD8 solutions, significantly increasing bandwidth for 4K production workflows. The company claims that both the Hybrid array and SSD8 offer over 2.5GB/s of sustained throughput. The company also detailed a new application that's designed for cataloging, searching and viewing many media types on its shared storage. FastTracker, which was introduced at NAB 2015, is an easy-to-use system that includes custom metadata tagging, catalog user permissions, Boolean search capability and incremental indexing functionality. McKenna also highlighted Facilis' entry-level storage solution, the 32TB 8D, which comes in a stackable, small form factor. Priced under $10K, the 8D is an alternative to Avid's ISIS 1000, and can support up to 250 attached users. For some studios, says McKenna, 32TBs is more than enough storage. Representatives from StorageDNA were also on-hand to talk about the company's DNA Evolution Adobe Project Archive. StorageDNA has been serving the media & entertain- ment space for 10 years. The company offers automatic archiving solutions, based around LTO tape, which it estimates is three or four times less expensive than external hard drives. Their solutions offer close integration with Facilis' releases. Users can generate lists of files to be archived. StorageDNA's Evolution can identify missing files and even alert users as to where it thinks the missing files are located. — BY MARC LOFTUS