Tantus Corporation announced that it will begin configuring, installing, and supporting its new storage solution for the content creation and broadcast markets. The ONEAlliance Shared Storage Workgroup is a specialized Storage Area Network, implementing an NTFS-compatible file system that will allow any users on the network to have simultaneous read and write access to a single volume. The system additionally allows the storage capacity and aggregate throughput of the system to limitlessly scale while client computers are connected and accessing their data.

Personnel can ingest, edit, playback, composite, and color correct the same unduplicated video footage, from DV to HDV to Uncompressed 10-bit HD, while their render farms and broadcast servers all access the same files. All of this functionality is available starting at $15K. The system is built around both Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN technology, allowing both inexpensive/low-throughput and more expensive/high-throughput access to the system. ONEAlliance is also built around off-the-shelf, easy to maintain, tried and true hardware, open architecture, and common industry standards. The systems allows for multiple points of failure without downtime, and gives the ability to swap out faulty hard drives, power supply, cooling units, and RAID controllers while on-line and without losing performance.

Features include:
- Unlimited scalability - users, capacity, from DV to Uncompressed 1080i 10-bit HD Efficient
- ALL workstations/render nodes always have direct, simultaneous read/write access at the data block level to all of your storage
- Raw Performance - Disk Throughput increases as you add more storage - up to 4Gb/s per user
- Expand On-the-Fly - Add more seats or storage without bringing down the system or touching your data.
- Data Protection - System can handle multiple instances of hardware failure without consequence - individual hard drives, whole arrays, power supplies, cooling modules are all hot-swappable and will not bring down the system.
- Compatible with your existing hardware
- Use TCP/IP technology already available through your Ethernet connection, or add FibreChannel adapters.
- Workflow Enhancements - Add automatic encoding features for instant offline editing, or have multiple editors working with each other on the same project at the same time, off of the same, unduplicated footage.
- Direct Remote Access - Edit from across the world, inhibited only by the bandwidth of your internet/WAN connection.
- Advanced Security and Asset Management tools - control accessibility and organization.

http://www.tantuscomputers.com