VAST Data Platform

Scalable and High-Performance Media Storage

The need for robust, high-performance storage solutions has never been greater. As file sizes grow and workflows become increasingly complex, media professionals require a storage platform that can scale seamlessly while maintaining exceptional performance. The VAST Data Platform rises to meet these challenges, delivering a revolutionary approach to media storage that ensures efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

Revolutionizing Media Storage with the VAST Data Platform

The VAST Data Platform is built to address the unique demands of the media and entertainment industry. Its cutting-edge architecture redefines the capabilities of traditional storage systems, providing an unmatched combination of performance, scalability, and simplicity.

Unprecedented Scalability

Media workflows often generate immense amounts of data, with high-resolution video, visual effects, and audio files consuming terabytes—or even petabytes—of storage. The VAST Data Platform is designed to grow alongside these demands:

  • Exabyte-Scale Capacity: Accommodates massive data volumes without sacrificing performance.
  • Seamless Expansion: Scale storage as your projects grow, ensuring uninterrupted operations.
  • Unified Storage Architecture: Consolidates storage tiers, enabling media professionals to manage all data—whether active or archived—on a single platform.

This scalability makes the VAST Data Platform ideal for media organizations of all sizes, from boutique post-production houses to global broadcasters.

High-Performance Media Workflows

Media workflows demand speed and precision. The VAST Data Platform excels in delivering the performance required for real-time editing, rendering, and playback:

  • Low-Latency Access: This feature supports fast retrieval and processing of media assets, even for high-resolution formats like 4K, 8K, and VR/AR.
  • High Throughput: Ensures smooth, uninterrupted performance for multi-stream editing and compositing tasks.
  • NVMe over Fabrics: Leverages cutting-edge technology for ultra-fast data transfers, minimizing bottlenecks in your workflow.

With these capabilities, the platform supports the most demanding production and post-production tasks, enabling creative teams to meet tight deadlines without compromising quality.

Simplified Data Management

Managing media assets across multiple storage tiers can be a logistical nightmare. The VAST Data Platform simplifies this process with a unified approach:

  • Single Namespace: Access all files through a single, intuitive interface, regardless of their location within the system.
  • Automated Data Tiering: Intelligent tiering moves data between high-performance and cost-effective storage layers based on usage patterns, optimizing costs without sacrificing accessibility.
  • Effortless Integration: Compatible with popular media asset management (MAM) systems, editing suites, and rendering tools, ensuring seamless integration into existing workflows.

By consolidating storage tiers and automating management tasks, the VAST Data Platform reduces complexity and frees up valuable time for creative work.

Robust Data Protection

Protecting media assets is a top priority for any production or post-production team. The VAST Data Platform provides advanced data protection features to safeguard your content:

  • Data Resiliency: Advanced erasure coding ensures data integrity and protects against hardware failures.
  • Built-In Redundancy: Guarantees high availability, minimizing the risk of downtime during critical production periods.
  • Scalable Backup Solutions: Simplifies backup and recovery processes, ensuring your data is secure and always accessible.

With these features, media professionals can confidently focus on their creative projects, knowing their assets are protected.

How the VAST Data Platform Supports Media Workflows

The VAST Data Platform has been engineered to meet the specific challenges of media and entertainment workflows. Here’s how it supports various stages of the production pipeline:

  • Content Ingest: High-speed data transfers enable seamless ingestion of raw footage, even for multi-camera shoots.
  • Editing and Post-Production: Low-latency performance ensures smooth real-time editing and rendering, allowing creative teams to work without interruption.
  • Archival and Retrieval: The unified storage architecture makes it easy to archive completed projects and retrieve them quickly when needed, reducing the time spent searching for files.
  • Collaboration: Multi-user support allows distributed teams to collaborate efficiently with simultaneous access to shared media assets.

This versatility ensures that the platform meets the needs of every stage of the media production process, from initial concept to final delivery.

Built for the Future of Media Storage

As media production technologies evolve, storage solutions must keep pace with new demands. The VAST Data Platform is future-proof and designed to support emerging trends and workflows:

  • AI and Machine Learning Integration: Optimized for workloads involving AI-driven content tagging, analysis, and discovery.
  • Cloud-Ready Capabilities: It easily integrates with hybrid and cloud-based workflows, providing flexibility for media organizations embracing remote production models.
  • Support for Emerging Formats: Handles increasingly complex formats, including HDR, 8K, and volumetric video, ensuring compatibility with the latest innovations.

VAST Data Platform Helps Organizations Stay Ahead of the Curve

For media professionals, choosing the right storage solution is critical to ensuring workflow efficiency, scalability, and data security. The VAST Data Platform stands out as a transformative solution, offering the performance, scalability, and simplicity needed to meet the demands of modern media workflows.

At Scale Logic, we’re proud to partner with VAST Data to deliver this groundbreaking platform to media organizations worldwide. If you’re ready to revolutionize your storage capabilities and streamline your production pipeline, connect with a Scale Logic storage specialist today to learn how the VAST Data Platform can support your business.
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Revolutionize Your Media Workflow with Scale Logic and VAST

In an era defined by digital innovation, industries such as media and entertainment, sports entertainment, VFX, and post-production grapple with monumental data volumes, the urgency of real-time deep data analysis, and the pressing demand for seamless data access and preservation of their invaluable digital assets.

An exponential surge in data has become the norm within the landscape, encompassing high-definition video, intricate graphics, dynamic animations, and an array of digital assets. The challenge lies in efficiently managing, organizing, and preserving this data, a task where traditional storage methods often prove inadequate. In this environment, the long-term preservation of historical media assets becomes paramount, serving as a critical resource for future projects, references, and adherence to regulatory compliance.

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The VAST Data Platform: A Game-Changing Solution

In partnership with VAST Data, Scale Logic presents the VAST Data Platform—a groundbreaking approach to data-intensive computing. This comprehensive software infrastructure empowers you to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and preserve data through real-time deep data analysis and deep learning. Designed for seamless and universal data access and computing, it covers everything from edge to cloud, offering flexibility for enterprises and cloud service providers to deploy on their chosen infrastructure.

Unlocking Key Solutions

High Performance & High Capacity

The VAST Data Platform reimagines flash economics, making all-flash infrastructure as affordable as an archive. This unlocks access to exabyte-scale data volumes while eliminating complex storage hierarchies that have burdened the industry for decades.

Transactional & Analytical

With its innovative distributed systems architecture (DASE), the platform eliminates communication dependencies between machines, allowing parallel read and write operations at any scale. Deep write buffers enable data transactions in streams optimized for deep data analytics and deep learning.

Globally Consistent & Locally Performant

The VAST Data Platform introduces decentralized global transaction management, extending deep buffers and data synchronization across all data locations. This ensures consistent, high-performance data transactions at any site.

Simple & Resilient at Any Scale

Designed for 99.99999999% uptime and scalability into the exabyte range, the VAST DASE architecture integrates seamlessly into enterprise applications. It modernizes legacy infrastructure, enables consolidation without disruption, and brings AI capabilities to your enterprise data.

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