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BITS & PIECES: STORAGE www.postmagazine.com 14 POST JULY/AUG 2021 OWC RELEASES RUGGED, FAST & PORTABLE SSD WOODSTOCK, IL — OWC (www.owc.com) has introduced the OWC Envoy Pro SX, a portable Thunderbolt SSD that can withstand water, dust and being dropped. The OWC Envoy Pro SX is versatile enough to be used as a bus-powered drive for daily storage and backup tasks, easily handling the speed demands of production-level audio, design and photography work- flows. And it serves up real-world performance speeds up to 2,847MB/sec. with modern Thunderbolt and USB4-equipped Macs and PCs. The half-pound portable drive features a removable Thunderbolt cable and is test certified to handle nasty environments. The OWC Envoy Pro SX is fully compatible with macOS and Windows built-in encryption. The fan-less model dissipates heat via its aluminum housing, and non-skid rubber feet help keep it in place. A Thunderbolt cable is included. The Envoy is available in configurations spanning 240GB to 2TB, with a starting price of $199 at MacSales.com. RPL & AVID PARTNER ON REMOTE EDITING SOLUTION BURBANK, CA — Avid has entered into a multi-year partnership with Remote Picture Labs (https://remotepicturelabs.com), the provider of remote editing solutions for the Hollywood film and television industry. The agreement enables RPL to offer a virtual film and television post production service that allows editors, assistant editors and producers to collaborate from anywhere using Avid's Media Composer software and Avid NEXIS storage. RPL has shifted its business model to address the changing landscape as media companies gravitate toward "as-a-service" offerings to support an increasingly-distributed workforce, moving from perpetual licenses to subscrip- tions with Avid. Originally developed so that edit teams could work during the COVID-19 pandemic, the RPL solution provides all of the system performance and functionality of traditional Avid workstations. Each virtualized client runs on RPL's high-performance private cloud in a robust, secure environment that possesses the same picture and audio quality and throughput found in on-premise edit bays. This continuity enables the seamless transition to a remote, collaborative environment, with content security assured through multi-factor authentication and AES-256 encryption. Built around Avid's Media Composer video editing software and NEXIS media storage, RPL's virtual workstations can be used as part of either a completely-remote or a hybrid solution, with some people working on prem- ises and others remotely. The software-based platform gives editing teams access to the latest Media Composer features as soon as they're available and provides a common experience, whether the editor is working in a post facility or from home. Multiple workstations can be integrated on the same project, making the RPL solution well suited for remote collaborative editing of premi- um live sports, studio shows, episodic television and feature films. QUANTUM SIMPLIFIES VIDEO & UNSTRUCTURED DATA SOLUTIONS SAN JOSE, CA — Quantum Corporation (quantum.com) has announced a new StorNext architecture and new line of StorNext appliances that simplify how organizations manage, store and protect their video content, imagery and business-critical data. In this new architecture, StorNext 7 file and block services, along with other data services, run virtually on a single software-defined platform. StorNext 7 has been virtualized, and major ar- chitectural components such as the management layer and APIs have been containerized in a Docker environment. The new software-defined architecture represents a major step toward enabling public- and hybrid-cloud deployments of the StorNext 7 file system, and makes it easier to use StorNext in more places. The Quantum H4000 Series of appliances combines the latest hardware technology with the company's signature StorNext software — a fast file system for video workloads. This offering is based on a software-defined architecture that simplifies administration, accelerates time to value, eliminates networking complexity, and makes it easy to deploy StorNext 7 for edge processing, remote production and in the core data center. In addition to improvements in networking complexity and IT administration, the solution introduces significant reductions in space and energy consumption.