ArchiveFS presents a StorNext Archive as a user-friendly and application-friendly file system hosted on a Mac. Safely browse archive volumes without triggering unwanted restores from LTO tape or Object storage. Intelligently manage bandwidth, checksumming, versioning, and permissions.
ArchiveFS is deployed with two New Zealand broadcasters and manages more than 500,000 assets.
Factorial recently designed and developed the new DM iPhone App which has launched in April 2015 to more than 80,000 users on day one.
Development was carried out in cooperation with Synetworks who was responsible for project management and the design of various back-end and content management systems maintained by Cards&Systems.
Integrating the App with various real-time back-end systems in an efficient way was a real challenge, and Factorial’s rapid prototyping approach and flexibility made this very easy. Throughout the whole development process Factorial proactively updated the App’s visual and functional design several times to match iOS design evolution and delivered a beautiful, native, high-quality iOS user experience for DM’s customers.- Lothar Egger, CEO of Synetworks
Developed by Factorial for Wingnut Films, Wingnut TV brings film review to the iPad in a powerful and elegant interface. Specifically designed for the requirements of film directors, Wingnut TV uses Factorial’s ClipTouch Server lightweight asset management platform to curate and manage the content presented inside the app, delivered with enterprise-class security.
Duncan Nimmo & Thomas Bauer: Wingnut Films & Factorial – Wingnut TV
from UX Design Day.
Factorial has worked with the Malaghan Institute for more than five years, and deployed a new StorNext Pro Foundation clustered storage solution in 2015 — consolidating all SAN, NAS, VM, compute, and backup storage onto a single high-availability and scalable platform.
Factorial designed and commissioned a system based on StorNext comprising more than 400 Terabytes of disk storage, 330 Terabytes of near-line LTO storage, and unlimited off-site archive storage hosting all of Māori Television’s digital media assets.
Factorial has integrated multiple asset management platforms and workflows on the same shared storage platform using a custom integration app developed for Māori Television called Te Hono, and a Factorial ArchiveFS Appliance.
Factorial has designed and commissioning a system based on StorNext comprising more than 280 Terabytes of disk storage, 500 Terabytes of near-line LTO storage, and unlimited off-site archive storage hosting all of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's digital media assets. Factorial is also contributing to the development of new workflows for accession, post-production, and delivery of archived assets.
Factorial supports near-line and off-site archive storage for all of TAB Trackside’s digital video and radio assets. Factorial has integrated the New Zealand Racing Board’s StorNext Archive directly with Grass Valley STRATUS News and Production Management with an ArchiveFS appliance managing more than 250TB of digital assets.
A multi-year partnership with Park Road has been founded on making technology choices that empower the creative processes involved in film post-production, rather than bending creative tools to fit the limits of current technology. The result is a uniquely integrated workflow, software toolset, and storage infrastructure that is far greater than the sum of its parts.
Factorial has architected, delivered, and maintains more than five Petabytes of critical storage and archive infrastructure that allows all systems at Park Road to access media in-place to allow close collaboration across the facility, without the need to check-out data locally.
Factorial has worked with the The Rebel Fleet to engineer high-performance shared storage and new digital workflows to meet the rigorous service demands of their large-scale film projects.
In record time, Factorial deployed a system based on Quantum StorNext and Xcellis hardware to deliver 400TB of ingest capacity and 4K realtime online storage in a uniquely mobile form factor.
StorNext has changed the way we work. It provides the performance we need plus the flexibility to support a wide variety of creative tools and processes. With StorNext, we are completely unconstrained.- Mike Urban, Founder and Managing Director at The Rebel Fleet
The Rebel Fleet have gone on to standardise on StorNext and Xcellis for all their critical projects going forward.