CTERA, the edge-to-cloud file services leader,
today introduced a media filer to its CTERA Edge product line that delivers
high performance, cloud scale, and modern collaboration to enable creative
content teams to produce and share digital assets from any device and any
location.
The CTERA Edge Media Edition is
designed to meet the specific requirements of media and advertising content
creators, packaging 128TB usable local capacity, SSD/NLSAS tiering, 8K video
rendering, and native support for macOS and Adobe creative products and
services. Unlike traditional NAS systems, the CTERA filer is part of a global
file system that spans multiple sites, desktops, and clouds, enabling truly
distributed file services with elastic scaling and no single point of failure.
"CTERA allows us to modernize
how we store and manage creative content across our globally distributed
locations," said Menakshi Sehwani, Regional CIO, EMEA, at Wunderman Thompson.
"By removing the limitations of our previous storage systems, the new CTERA
media filer enables JWT to take full advantage of cloud scale and global
collaboration while delivering the edge performance we need to execute on
world-class projects for our clients."
The CTERA media filer
provides transparent migration from existing NAS devices with preservation of
share structure and file permissions. Intelligent cloud tiering optimizes local
capacity for current projects and pinned files, while cloud security risks are
mitigated through source-based encryption, firewall fencing, virus scanning and
Active Directory integration.
CTERA Edge Media Edition
highlights:
- SMB/NFS
file services with full Windows ACLs
- Cloud-based
global file system across distributed sites and endpoints
- Global
deduplication for optimal cloud storage and WAN efficiency
- On-demand
streaming of large files from the cloud
- 128TB
local usable cloud cache
- Hybrid
SSD/SAS with Active-Active controllers
- macOS
Spotlight integration
- Adobe
suite compatibility
- Antivirus
and DLP scanning
- Cloud
archiving and DR
"Content creation and
distribution in the media and advertising industry have always placed major
demands on storage systems," said Steven Hill, Senior Analyst of Applied
Infrastructure and Storage Technologies at 451 Research. "CTERA's new Edge
Media Edition offers a hybrid storage environment for creative professionals
that combines cloud and multi-platform support for dense, collaborative
workflows and the performance to support high-def video production."
In a recent survey of
media storage decision makers conducted by IDC, performance was the industry's
top concern with public cloud services (43 percent of respondents). With the
introduction of the CTERA media filer, media firms no longer need to sacrifice
cloud capacity for the predictable performance of a local NAS.
"Media firms have lagged
behind on cloud transformation due to the challenging nature of modern media
workflows," said Oded Nagel, Chief Strategy Officer, CTERA. "The new media
filer provides the perfect cloud bridge for data-intensive environments,
combining high local performance tuned for media-rich workflows with efficient
cloud scaling."
The CTERA media filer is available today as part
of the
Edge H Series. The
CTERA Edge Filer product family also includes the hyperconverged
Edge X Series and the
virtual
Edge
V Series.