We improved the product in five areas:
- Expanded its functionality to be a storage consolidation platform for Multiple Avid storage platforms and fit better with the rest of the workgroups . Making storage content on the Unity/ISIS Offload UOL platform more accessible by all workgroups Avid and non Avid
- Offer workflow level resilience. Allow the option for users to edit and playback of off UOL storage if the Unity systems are down or overloaded and customer needs added collaborative editing access. Expand access to content for nodes that are not on Avid Fibre Channel network on LAN or WAN.
- Offer Bridging function between multiple Avid systems and workspaces
- Instant single Click retrieve for recovery at Workgroup, Project and file level, offering an express retrieve path(s).
- New GUI Look and Feel
Here is a summary description of each top level tabs of System Web based GUI: (Each tab lets to other processes for implementing the service)
Top Level TAB NAME: (associated definition summary)
Status: Shows AVID Unity/ISIS workspace correlation status with UOL storage, pertaining to Workspace Quotas, Usage, Mirrored, Incrementally backed up on Avid, showing the each workspace was backed up and client machines access status to each workspace.
Setup: Allows for setup of source and destination workspaces, projects, directories and files paths between Avid(s) and UOL Storage(s)
UDown mode: Avid Storage down mode. Allows for workflow resilience and expansion to continue editing from UOL storage and sync back the data once AVID is backup
It supports any PC and MAC editing platform via GE independent and complementary to Avid Storage. Expands editing support for your FCP workflows for example. Single click data coherency/sync and recovery from UOL to AVIDs.
MP Association: Allows for media files and project files single click recovery and intelligent data coherency per PMR database on Avid storage at the project level.
Unity Peeker: Allows Peeking into Unity or ISIS storage and for intelligently managing content on AVID(s) and bridging the content at Intra-Avid storage level. All statistics on AVID storage capacity and Quota at the workspace level is highlighted
Search: Allows for Searching UOL database for content stored on it. The search function is applicable to all data stored on UOL therefore it can be applied to other workgroups data as well if consolidated on UOL storage. Example it can be search for graphic files stored on UOL, etc.
Notes: Allows for adding text notes to UOL storage and be able to better ID archived information
File Expirer: Allows for intelligent ID of stale data on AVIDs and UOL and provides elective automated processes to clean up databases.
System Info: Offers detail health monitoring status and quotas on UOL system.
In summary we improve the AVID workgroups in three areas, Expand the FC or GE island of AVID to be a part of a consolidated nearline backup storage with better RAID protection(RAID-6), automate archive/retrieve and bridging of Mutli AVID installations, Allow not only archive but real-time editing for Video workflows from the same platform.
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Mirror, Archive & Workflow Resilience |
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Workflow resilience
Data protection in high-speed RAID 6
Ubiquitous content access via Ethernet
Real-time collaboration editing environment for DNxHD & DVCPRO HD |
Apace UI Offload (UIOL) is a complementary storage system solution for Avid Unity and ISIS.
UI Offload Hardware/Software suite offers four core media workflow enhancement features:
- Online disk-to-disk backup / mirror and incremental archival workflow with instant restore
- Real-Time editing and playback for Avid and Non-Avid workgroups
- Managed networked storage consolidation for Avid and non-Avid workflows
- Expanding access to content from any LAN/WAN IP-based client node.
UI Offload platform acts as a proxy to Avid primary storage as well as a secondary archive platform via its
performance RAID-6 storage offering automated backup, instant restore, alternate workflow during
Unity/ISIS downtime, and multiple systems real-time editing directly off of the system, while offering
advanced parallel paths of access to its networked storage platform.
UI Offload benefits: Workflow Resilience, Content Protection, Data Management & Movement, and Workflow
Productivity. UI Offload makes post-production more productive and your valuable asset safer!
Workflow Resilience is designed to serve as an alternative workflow independently from Unity/ ISIS.Editors can work off of the system individually and/or in a shared collaboration fashion. It supports multiple streams of DVCPro HD and DNxHD 145. UI offload provides a heterogeneous architecture and Ethernet based connectivity to sustain users work, while Unity/ ISIS system(s) is down or its storage is being rebuilt. Once Unity/ ISIS is back online, the users can immediately merge their work back to their previous workspace.
Content Protection is packaged in a high density 4U rackmount chassis with up to 24TB of RAID 6 storage. It has redundant hot-swap drives, fans and power supplies and is built with quality enterprise components for 24/7/365 usage. The architecture and implementation are field-proven and have been deployed through hundreds installations worldwide and with years of real world use in broadcast environment. Raid-6 data protection assures recovery from two simultaneous disk failures and no reduction in system response time during normal rebuild.
Content Data Management & Movement is designed via an advanced Web based GUI for management of all
aspects of large scale data migration and system monitoring being accessed from the same control panel. The goal of the integrated software tools is to easily access Avid primary storage via tools such as Unity Peeker, allowing intelligent decision making on what content to migrate or retrieve. Specifically, workflow allows for automated and intelligent bi-directional movement of the content from Unit/ISIS primary storage to the disk based archival storage and back for millions of files & terabytes of data
quickly & efficiently without impact on your on-going work. Users can protect their content with mirrored RAID 5 or 6, have Ethernet accessibility, and enjoy instant workspace recovery. UI Offload provides greater accessibility and content availability to the users. The workflow helps in backup / mirroring, archive and shared collaboration with AVID Unity/ISIS storage without concern of data loss even in RAID 0 on Unity. One effective by-product of this flexibility is instant doubling of Avid’s usable primary storage space!!!
Workflow Productivity is enhanced via complete integration of hardware and software tools to
seamlessly address entire mirrored workspaces to single file level granular content migration options and enhanced collaboration. By offering cost effective disk based copy of content that is automatically synching OMF and MXF file databases. Also, users have the option to leverage from this digital library to expand access to the rest of the operations workflows from graphics workgroups to trans-coding stations to non-Avid workstations to prepping the data for broadcast purposes. The goal of the UI offload is not
only to offer archive, but to make the content accessible and usable by the entire organization that may not have direct access to Avid’s primary storage systems. Also, all content is searchable at directory, file and text level.
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