One type of technology that’s become increasingly popular in the media and broadcast sector after years of success in the corporate world is hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI for short.
HCI harnesses the combined power of a pool of RAM, compute and SSD storage presenting them as virtualised workstations for your editors to work with. The solution from Nutanix, the leaders in HCI, can be particularly advantageous to post rental houses and broadcasters houses wanting to embrace flexible working.
Flexibility is actually the biggest benefit on offer with Nutanix. First, you buy ‘nodes’, each of which contains set amounts of fast storage, RAM, networking and graphics cards. Together, these nodes form a ‘cluster’, from which virtual computers can be created with a remarkable amount of horsepower – and all through a process certified by Avid.
That means you can spin up many more or many fewer virtual workstations than physically exist on a mix-and-match basis, allowing you to always achieve the most efficient number of workstations required. You can change your configuration over time to best suit your flexible workflow, in ways that would be prohibitively expensive with traditional infrastructure. Edit suite not booked? You can just change your cluster’s configuration so you never have any expensive workstations sitting unused.
Perhaps you’re already doing remote editing in the wake of lockdown. But now could be the ideal time to streamline your remote editing setup for the long term, with flexible working seeming set to stay. There is a mass of technology available to make having your editors work from home or elsewhere not just possible, but seamless and productive.
PC over IP solutions like Amulet Hotkey, for example, allow your editors to use all the power of their favourite workstation from the comfort of their own home – even if they’re on a relatively slow domestic broadband connection. Cloud editing solutions like Avid | Edit on Demand, meanwhile, let you rent instances of Media Composer and NEXIS storage on an as-needed basis wherever you need them.
You can also give your clients remote access so they don’t have to come to you to review footage.
Getting flexible
So NDI, Nutanix, remote editing and cloud editing have clear potential for media and broadcast. But where to start in developing your flexible workflow?
It’s true that setting up an NDI system or adopting Nutanix for the first time can be complicated and technical. That’s where the experts at Jigsaw24 come in. They’ve been running virtualised media workflows since 2015 and specialise in providing IT solutions to the industry, so no- one knows more about real-world flexible production and post.
Jigsaw24’s services include consultancy, design, deployment, workflow integration and collaborative environment support.
They’re already working with companies across the media and broadcast sector to help them move further into remote working. Perhaps they could help you, too.
Jigsaw24 are the media and broadcast technology specialists, having worked in the creative industries for nearly 30 years. An Apple Authorised Enterprise Reseller and Apple Premium Service Provider, they also hold top accreditations from the likes of Avid and Adobe.
Call: 03332 409 210 Email:
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