Omneon MediaGrid Executive Overview

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1 Omneon MediaGrid Executive Overview

2 Omneon MediaGrid Shared storage for accelerating media workflows Exceptional performance Cost-effective Simple to deploy and manage All Ethernet Optimized for media Performance of SAN, simplicity of NAS

3 MediaGrid Global Successes Many of the world s leading, most innovative media companies rely on MediaGrid News Entertainment Post Production National Networks

4 MediaGrid Scale-Out Storage Tens GB/s GB/s Linear scaling ünon-disruptive üsingle file system üprotects investments Hundreds MB/s Tens TB Hundreds TB Petabytes File System File System File System

5 Breakthrough Performance Efficiency Same number of disks more performance! Bandwidth Per Drive (MB/s) +75% +24% Enabled By: ü Media application optimizations ü True parallelism Traditional NAS bandwidth per Iozone benchmarks Clustered NAS bandwidth per Isilon white paper Provided Scale-out By Harmonic NAS for Inc.'s High-Performance Platinum Reseller, Applications DigitalGlue.

6 Our Secret Sauce: Highly Efficient, Truly Parallel I/O Traditional Clustered NAS: Single-Threaded MediaGrid: True Parallel Access!

7 Competitive Price Per TB Isilon 48TB Usable $220K List MediaGrid 50TB Usable $205K List Isilon X-200 vs. Omneon MediaGrid 3000, includes support 7

8 Better Price Performance! Performance, MB/s Lower Price, 30% more performan ce! $220K $205K

9 The Benefits Of Ethernet-Based Storage Complex Simple $ $ $ FC SANs SAN switches FC HBAs Expensive staff External file system MediaGrid ü Inexpensive switches ü Inexpensive NICs ü Common skillset ü Built in file system Expensive Cost-Effective

10 MediaGrid: Optimized With Leading Apps FilmPartners

11 Built For High Availability Data availability maintained, even if: Dow n Time ü Disk drive fails ü Controller fails ü Capacity is added ü Software is updated ü An AC circuit drops ü Disaster strikes* * With campus-level Replication

12 Broadcast Case Study: CNN 60 Craft Editors Leading news organization 300 Browse Clients The Challenge: Upgrade infrastructure to support HD Hard for journalists to find the media they needed The Solution: Open multivendor-based HD infrastructure built around MediaGrid Ingest 30 MediaDeck MediaGrid Storage (2 x 126TB) Playout Spectrum (52) Web delivery Results: Successful HD deployment Quickly get stories to air (edit growing files) Continuous availability vastly improved workflow Archive Bob Hesskamp, SVP Broadcast Engineering Michael Koetter, VP News Technology 12

13 With MediaGrid You Can. Support shared heterogeneous editing without limitation Satisfy multiple distribution devices without interruption Effectively consolidate islands of storage Easily scale to accommodate increased workloads Concurrently ingest all incoming feeds Create cost-effective multi-petabyte nearline repositories Create the workflow that your business needs!

14 Thank You!

15 Post Production Case Study: Modern VideoFilm The Challenge: Handle high volume of incoming content The Solution: MediaGrid systems for caching, production, and direct playback Now 750TB of MediaGrid storage Results: Easily handle 10TB/day of incoming content without impacting other projects Extremely easy to scale Lower cost per TB [than SAN] Bill Womack, Sr. Engineer Signiant Servers Content from Studios (via 2Gbps Fiber (Signiant) Archive (Atempo + Quantum tape) Edit (Final Cut Pro) MediaGrid Storage Transcode (Digital Rapids, Amberfin) Signiant Media Movers Stream to FOX TV Stations 15

Corporate Media Case Study: Home Depot TV The Challenge: Infrastructure could not handle the volume FC-based storage system too complex Media Application

projects between MediaGrid and tape archive within MAS Ingest (MediaDeck) MediaGrid Storage Playout (MediaDeck) "The MAS platform and MediaGrid storage allowed

16 Corporate Media Case Study: Home Depot TV The Challenge: Infrastructure could not handle the volume FC-based storage system too complex Media Application Server Clip & metadata management (Omneon ProXplore) The Solution: Tapeless workflow with MediaGrid central storage Integration with XenData to seamlessly move projects between MediaGrid and tape archive within MAS Ingest (MediaDeck) MediaGrid Storage Playout (MediaDeck) "The MAS platform and MediaGrid storage allowed us to get our operation flowing efficiently from start to finish. Bruce Covey, Manager Business TV Engineering Library Management (Xendata) Qualstar Tape Library 16

17 The New File-Based Media Workflow Browse/Log Edit Media Prep Acquire Ingest Central Storage High Performance Media Storage Linear Playout Non-Linear Delivery Packager and Origin Server Channel Chain Audio Graphics CC Video Clips Etc Video Playout Proxy/QA Transcode Archive

18 MediaGrid Delivers Consistent Performance MediaGrid Relative Performance SAN File Systems Defrag! Downtime! Consistent Performance With MediaGrid: Consistent Performance: ü As system fills ü As system ages ü As users added Day 1 Day 365

19 Campus-Level Disaster Recovery Synchronous replication across two groups of enclosures Physically separated, but single file system Groups can be up to 500M apart Active-active configuration Location 1 Location 2 Benefit: Instant, transparent failover upon site failures! Automatic failback and replication on recovery Single File System, Replicated data Group A Group B

20 Qualified With Dozens Of Media Applications Ingest Ingest Spectrum/ MediaDeck ProMedia Capture Digital Rapids Amberfin icr MOG SpeedRail EVS Editing Editing Apple Final Cut Pro Avid Media Composer Adobe Premiere Grass Valley Edius Autodesk Smoke MXFServer Transcoding Transcoding ProMedia Carbon Amberfin Telestream Harmonic QC QC ProMedia QC Interra Baton Archival Archival Atempo Front Porch Digital SGL Xendata Media Management Media Management Media Application Server MXF Server Ardendo Dalet Origin Serving Origin Serving ProMedia Origin Server Microsoft IIS Adobe FMS Partner

Adobe as well 1x ContentServer 1xContentServer+1xContentStore Streams per Seat RAID 6 RAID 4 RAID 6 RAID

21 Edit Performance Industry-leading Edit-In-Place Seat Count Torture Timeline Edit Seat Count Testing Edit playback performance/scalability with stringent timelines Results using FCP, but applicable to Avid and Adobe as well 1x ContentServer 1xContentServer+1xContentStore Streams per Seat RAID 6 RAID 4 RAID 6 RAID 4 2x50Mb Streams x100Mb Streams x220Mb Streams x330Mb Streams

22 AutoDesk Smoke on MediaGrid Smoke customers finally have an alternative to SANs! 2K/4K Editing 10GbE clients Support for both uncompressed DPX and QT formats 22

MXFserver Enabling Collaboration with Control Share project data

Premiere MediaComposer style bin locking Control access to media

users from corrupting, deleting source media files Allows user s rights

23 MXFserver Enabling Collaboration with Control Share project data between Editors Avid MediaComposer, Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere MediaComposer style bin locking Control access to media Restricts user access to authorized projects only Prevent unauthorized users from corrupting, deleting source media files Allows user s rights to be managed Allow browsing but not editing content Restricts those who may delete media

24 Faster Transcoding With MediaGrid Promedia Carbon performance on MediaGrid: Up to 2.5X Isilon performance! Relative Performance: MediaGrid vs. Isilon *Both systems had same number of SATA drives

25 Optimized for Multiscreen Origin Storage MediaGrid optimized for Smooth and HLS Streaming Qualified with Harmonic ProMedia Origin and Microsoft IIS Consolidate to high performance shared storage Server hundreds of streams per Origin Server MediaGrid

26 Media Application Server (MAS) Adding Media Intelligence to File System MAS is a Media Management Software Appliance that works with MediaGrid, Servers and 3 rd Party storage Provides media awareness to files Harness existing clip meta-data and add user meta-data Organize and search content Manage file system operations Purge old content Mirror/Move files Trigger workflow tasks via API Transcode (Rhozet) QC (Rhozet, Interra Baton) CC Extraction Archival (XenData, Quantum) Proxy Creation (IPV) 26

Omneon MediaGrid Technical Overview

Omneon MediaGrid Technical Overview Introduction To MediaGrid Property Architecture Scalability Networking Client Access High Availability Application Integration Attributes Scale-out; MediaFS clustered