Amsterdam – EditShare, maker of cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, has released EditShare XStream at IBC.
Part of the new Complete Collaboration product line announced at NAB 2008; XStream is EditShare¹s 5th generation high-performance shared storage solution for DI and Broadcast workflows. Leveraging the fastest torage technology on the market, each EditShare XStream 16 drive chassis processes over 1 GB per second. Users can combine multiple XStream chassis yielding performance to match the needs of any large-scale production workgroup or high-bandwidth content creation facility.
Combined with EditShare's 5th generation administration, monitoring, and workflow tools, XStream enables industry-leading performance and an open environment for creative teams to share media regardless of application and platform. Users of Apple, Adobe, Assimilate, Autodesk, Avid, Digidesign, Sony, Thomson and more can connect via Gigabit or 10-gigabit Ethernet and freely share media regardless of size or format. As with the EditShare Storage Series, XStream offers tremendous workflow advantages within the XStream Workflow Director. True project and media sharing for Apple and Avid users, user management tools that are designed specifically for post and broadcast, integration with post and broadcast equipments for realtime and complete collaboration across the entire workflow. EditShare XStream supports huge numbers of SD and compressed HD video streams, or multiple streams of uncompressed HD or 2K video. With its unique PCI-express expansion architecture and a dedicated RAID card for every 8 or 16 drives, EditShare XStream provides unparalleled reliability, performance and scalability.
Available through the global EditShare Reseller Network, EditShare will begin shipping the first XStream units at the end of the month.