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Facilis Technology designs and builds shared storage servers for collaborative media production networks. Our unique Shared File System is included with all Facilis HUB servers and allows complex, cross-OS network environments to collaborate workflow across media production applications and file formats. Whether your job is 4K color grading, VFX compositing or HD craft editorial, working with Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud, Apple FCPX, DaVinci Resolve, or Avid Pro Tools, Facilis HUB is a shared storage solution that provides the performance and collaboration so that you can create with confidence.
Facilis has a unique way of creating virtual disks on demand that look and act like basic hard drives but are evenly distributed across a much larger drive set. Instead of a linear path, data is written on the entire disk surface at all times, ensuring that every virtual volume has the same performance, whether the system is empty or full.
Client software is necessary for storage area networks (SAN) but requires multi-layer networks and expensive client licenses. Our Shared File System was developed exclusively for video and audio content, to be easy to use and inexpensive to deploy. It changes what’s old, clunky, and inefficient about TCP-IP network file systems while keeping all the scalability and reliability of NAS and offering the efficiency and feature set only available with SAN.
Facilis does both seamlessly even on the same client workstation. We know the benefits of block-mode storage and especially for Windows, direct-connect fibre channel is the champion of efficient and fast data transfers. We’re also advocates of Ethernet for its lower-cost scalability and performance for Mac and Linux workstations. Any Virtual Volume can be accessed through both Fibre Channel (up to 64Gb) and Ethernet (up to 50Gb) for speeds of 3-4GB/sec to a single workstation.
Included with every shared storage server, the Console is a user-facing representation of the Facilis Shared File System and virtual volume management. This is the home of our revolutionary Smart Access Rules, Bandwith Prioritization, Dynamic Volume Management, and of course our WANLink remote access solution for hybrid and remote workflows.
Asset management products range from the very simple to the wildly complex. The more difficult to deploy and maintain, the less likely you'll continue to use it. FastTracker was designed to process your assets in the background, providing a way to search, create previews or editorial proxies, automate transcription and auto-tagging, or simply serve as a secure method to access content via LAN or Web. FastTracker brings the best of the complex MAMs into a simple package that's included with all Facilis servers.
Facilis HUB storage area network servers are not generic NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices that rely on standard network protocols that can be changed or broken. Our Shared File System for video editing is unique in many ways:
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Brandstar Customer Testimonial
Facilis Shared Storage Customer, Brandstar, shares how they have adopted and utilize Facilis Shared Storage solutions in their creative environments on a daily basis.
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Space Lion Studios Case Study
Space Lion Studios Tames Complex Long-Form Collaborative Workflows with Facilis HUB System
“We’ve not had any more complaints from the editors and most importantly, we’re no longer seeing system freezes. That was one of the biggest things we had hoped to see with this installation and as a result our engineers are now much more productive.”
“We get a lot of media from outside sources—game developers, logos, ESRB ratings, and we do a monthly show from the studio that’s live to disk. With all those assets, we needed quicker access, so FastTracker has been very important to us. It’s just the right amount of media management for us, and its integration with Adobe Premiere Pro makes it a natural extension for the editors.”
“We took our time and made sure our next investment was in the right direction for the company. Facilis offered a fairly large volume of storage at a price point we couldn't reach with competing systems, and with no compromise in performance. Plus, the flexibility of the system is second to none. So, we’re very happy with our choice.”
“With the Facilis system, we could also use ethernet and even have someone on a low-bandwidth Wi-Fi connection browsing media. This gave us much more flexibility for collaboration within the whole company. Now we can have producers on the system as well as our editors with everyone being managed at an appropriate level of connection and privileges.”
“Previously a lot of our programmes, such as talk shows, needed only one editor, but we started bringing in more factual entertainment programmes that required multiple editors working simultaneously on the same material. We had two suites connected with a NAS but no project sharing, and the rest was standalone storage, so we began looking at a suitable collaborative storage replacement.”
“We’ve stuck with Facilis over the years because of the great flexibility and performance the system affords us. Service is great and our support contract lets us get in touch with a knowledgeable Facilis rep in under 5 minutes, if needed. Support reps can even remote-in and take care of any issues if they crop up, which means a lot to us,”
Any workgroup that produces image content for web, television or print can use a Facilis system. Most of our customers produce video content for delivery to networks and streaming content providers, or in the case of our corporate customers, internal use.
Facilis uses the Facilis Shared File System software, not generic NAS file systems like SMB/CIFS/NFS which are controlled by the operating system of the client workstations. Avoiding network filesystem overhead lowers the latency of the client-server communication, especially when accessing directories with large file count.
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