Ultra-fast Fusion File Share SMB software unlocks the latent potential of high-end server and storage hardware, giving media and film companies new power to realize their creative visions of ultra-high-definition, high-frame-rate video content
LAS VEGAS, April 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Tuxera, a maker of networked file management and transfer software products, today announced that its network access technology enables media and entertainment companies to get stunning video content from editing suites to consumer screens faster.
Post-production company requirements are driving Tuxera’s adoption of Fusion File Share to enable real-time online data access for vfx, animation and other high-bandwidth studio operations
Fusion File Share by Tuxera™ block message (SMB) server software for Linux® the operating environment is the secret key that unlocks the incredible power and performance captured in today’s high-performance computing hardware and software-defined storage systems. Tuxera’s software breaks the bottleneck at the network layer to access data on the stack that post-production companies use to feed video into an editing suite. When Tuxera’s Fusion File Share replaces standard SMB solutions that default to uploading to storage infrastructure, the barrier to data transfer disappears.
Now studio technicians can work on the most demanding editing and production processes in real time, even when processing uncompressed 8K 60 FPS content. The familiar experience of lag and downtime while editors wait for high-definition video files to be transferred over the network and uploaded is gone, freeing up time for studios to create the best possible video products and realize the most ambitious creative visions.
“When we originally tested Fusion File Share, I had no idea what it was capable of,” he says Veikko RuuskanenCEO of Toast Post Production Oy, a full-service post-production company in Helsinki, Finland. ‘We always prefer to play raw material on our workstations in real time, regardless of resolution or file format. Unfortunately, this was not always possible with equipment running SAMBA SMB server software. Sometimes we had to create local caches which slowed down the workflow, frustrating both our artists and our clients. With Fusion File Share software, we’ve found that we can instantly manage real-time transfers of the most demanding file types. The change was instantaneous.’
NAB Show attendees (Las Vegas, NV, 13.-17. April 2024) you can hear more about the post-production workflow improvements Fusion File Share by Tuxera offers in a joint presentation by Tuxera, Toast Post Production and Pixitmedia, the leader in software-defined data storage and management solutions for media and entertainment. The presentation will take place in April 15, 2024 on 3 in the afternoon local time in the SU4087 Create Zone cinema.
NAB Show attendees can also visit Tuxera’s booth SL10051 (South Hall Lower) to see Fusion File Share by Tuxera perform ultra-high-speed network file access from storage. Tuxera technical staff will be on hand to explain how storage providers can enable the latest exciting production effects for their media and entertainment clients by addressing the data access layer bottleneck.
Exceeds industry performance standards for networked data access
Fusion File Share software provides a dramatic increase in the speed, bandwidth and reliability of network data access for all workflows performed in media and entertainment studios, editing suites and post-production facilities, including:
- Color grading
- Vfx
- Animation
- Motion tracking
With Fusion File Share by Tuxera running on Tuxera partners’ state-of-the-art hardware and software storage systems, studio technicians can perform simultaneous processes such as color grading and raw video editing 8K video feeds without loss of definition and with a data rate that usually exceeds 10 GB/s.
Antti Alila, vice president of Enterprise Solutions at Tuxera, said: ‘Just one simple change can unlock the full potential of your content storage and network bandwidth. Tuxera Fusion File Share – our high-performance protocol solution for small and medium-sized businesses – is transforming the work of production studios and video technicians in the media and entertainment industry, creating major improvements in efficiency and productivity. We know that studios invest heavily in the best workstations, the best effects software, the highest bandwidth networks, and the best storage hardware and software. All these investments are essentially wasted if, at the protocol level, the system cannot scale and deliver the required bandwidth.’
‘Technology now won’t get in the way of studios creating whatever effects they can imagine.’
How Fusion File Share by Tuxera works
Tuxera’s Fusion File Share connects data users via networks to storage servers, continuously providing high throughput while maintaining data integrity regardless of the status of the infrastructure over which the data is transferred. The most widely used alternative to open source SAMBA software, Fusion File Share offers up to 60x more bandwidth and up to 500% better scalability. Compatible with the SMB protocol up to version 3.1.1, Fusion File Share also offers RDMA capability.
In addition, its scaling feature allows the creation of a parallel and scalable service of multiple SMB clusters, providing faster throughput with low CPU and memory usage.
Internally validated test data demonstrates Fusion File Share’s superior performance when handling multimedia workloads such as ultra-high definition video. The results are derived from a live concert line-up consisting of: 16K x 16K, 60fps live video streaming to a giant screen with 27 storage nodes via active-active scale-out SMB media servers and a storage cluster. The application required zero frame drops or latency to provide concertgoers with an uninterrupted, immersive viewing experience while maintaining flow for an event lasting several hours.
In a large storage vendor’s cluster running Fusion File Share with RDMA enabled, the file sharing system completely saturated the network with data transfer rates of up to 412 GB/s. The low resource utilization of Fusion File Storage software also enabled SMB service directly on the storage nodes, without requiring protocol nodes or additional hardware.
For more information about Tuxera and Fusion File sharing, go to www.tuxera.com.
About Tuxera
Tuxera is a leading provider of quality-assured embedded storage management software and networking technologies. Helping people and businesses store their data and do more with it, our software is at the heart of phones, tablets, cars, TVs, cameras, drones, external storage, routers, spacecraft, IoT devices and more. We help you store your data securely, while making file transfers fast and content easily accessible. Tuxera is also an active member of numerous industry organizations, including JEDEC, AGL, SD Association, The Linux Foundation and many others. Tuxera was founded in 2008, and its headquarters are in Finlandwith regional offices in China, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwanand the USA.
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