Share rich media in a high-speed, cross-platform SAN
metaSAN enables multiple users to share access to common data files in workgroups where heavy bandwidth requirements are the norm. With metaSAN, film and video editors, digital artists, healthcare specialists, and corporate users can simultaneously access a common pool of data files such as video clips, databases, satellite imagery, medical archives, or CAD files - as easily and transparently as if the content was stored on their local drive.
 Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, metaSAN innovates with true file sharing, native OS file system and access rights management, virtualization for Avid®, File Sequence Optimizer™, dynamic metadata master arbitration model, and seamless integration with LAN networks. These innovations ensure a perfectly transparent and reliable networked shared storage that can fuel the most creative environments in addition to greatly reducing the cost of managing mission-critical resources.
metaSAN's user-friendly file-level sharing capability offers far more flexibility than the more common volume-level based sharing that imposes serious workflow restrictions.
With metaSAN, you manage accesses to your shared storage the same way you normally would for any other local drive. There is no need for special disk formatting or management utilities, or for creating or managing special user accounts. Network administrators simply use standard OS account management tools to grant or deny access to the individual users. For those in mission-critical environment, metaSAN's dynamic metadata master arbitration model provides the failover mechanism that ensures 24/7 operations by eliminating the risks of downtime associated with conventional metadata controller-based architecture.
metaSAN can seamlessly integrate SAN and LAN networks. With the addition of MetaLAN, a multi-point gateway software that connects your enterprise LAN with your high-speed SAN, your entire facility can now benefit from many unique SAN advantages.
metaSAN represents a major shift from traditional SAN management software. You can choose the network topology that best suits your needs - SAN for bandwidth and real scalability, LAN for lower cost and ease of deployment, or a combination of both! You then choose the building blocks that deliver the performance and scalability you need - Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, and even iSCSI. metaSAN supports the leading vendors of storage and networking technology including Atto, ADTX, Brocade, Ciprico/Huge Systems, D-Link, IBM, Emulex, LSI, Qlogic, Seagate, and Xyratex.
Features
Heterogeneous operating system support Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and Linux users can share content and collaborate efficiently
Simultaneous high-speed file sharing No volume-locking restrictions! All users can read AND write to the same volume
Hardware and software agnostic Compatible with all standard applications, storage, and network technologies - including Infiniband, 4Gb FC, 10 GigE, and iSCSI. Supports stripe sets, trunking and multipathing.
Native OS file system support Preserves the integrity of NTFS and HFS+ file systems and simplifies SAN maintenance. Manage volumes up to 18 exabytes in size!
Native OS access rights management No need to manage additional accounts and passwords for true file sharing
Per-node bandwidth usage control Bandwidth reservation and bandwidth quota for each SAN member allows for a fair and optimal distribution of the available network bandwidth
Virtualization for Avid® Enables sharing of media files among multiple users of Avid® software on Windows platforms for efficient workgroup collaboration.
Requires no dedicated metadata controller Save $$$! No need to purchase extra licences, dedicated computers, HBA, etc.
Centralized management of SAN definitions Simplifies SAN management by allowing global, as well as local SAN settings to be controlled from a single workstation
Soft zoning Enables the shared storage to be partitioned in a number of zones that permit the compartmentalization of data for increased security
24/7 mission-critical ready Access to SAN is fully redundant with true real-time failover capability
Fibre Channel to Ethernet Failover Users can still save their work and exit gracefully in case of a Fibre Channel malfunction
Multi-point gateway for LAN MetaLAN gives your LAN clients block-level access to your high-speed SAN through one of the available data server gateways!
Dynamic Disk Optimizer Offers low level, high-performance formatting options that boosts existing RAID and stripe set performances up to 100% in addition to providing backup and restore utilities for LDM databases on Windows platforms
File Sequence Optimizer Dramatically increases streaming and editing performances of large image file sequences (DPX, TGA, JPG, etc.) by eliminating problems associated with disk fragmentation on Windows and Linux platforms
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