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About Facilis' Shared Storage Solutions

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.

Shared Storage SolutionsVirtual Volumes

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.

 

Storage Area Network ServersFacilis Shared File System

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.

 

SANFibre Channel & Ethernet in Perfect Harmony

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.

 

Shared Storage SolutionsFacilis Console 

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.

 

Storage Area NetworkFastTracker Asset Management

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.

 

About Our SAN 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:

 

  • Automatic multi-connectivity failover (including Fibre Channel to Ethernet) with no manual configuration required.
  • Automatic Load balancing of clients across multiple server IP addresses, also with no manual configuration requirement.
  • Historical and dynamic client and volume bandwidth tracking, as well as overall server load monitoring.
  • Simplified remote client deployment, enabling software update of every workstation from any connected browser.

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The latest news, events and press coverage of Facilis shared storage

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Facilis Technology and Broadfield Distributing Announce Partnership

 

Facilis Technology has announced a strategic partnership with Broadfield Distributing, Inc. to extend the distribution of their products across North America.

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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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Facilis Shared Storage FAQ

What type of facility would buy a Facilis system?

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.

How is Facilis HUB different than NAS?

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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